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NCL2 Day 18: San Francisco CA
This day did not start well. And almost ended in disaster. But sandwiched between those two bad ends was a lot of fun. While at sea on Day 17 we had booked a “hop-on, hop-off” bus tour. We had $50 excursion credit to use and this tour would take us across the Golden Gate Bridge, … Continue reading
NCL2 Day 16: Los Angeles CA
We were told, when the stop in Cabo San Lucas was cancelled, that we would benefit by getting extra time in Los Angeles. Well, not quite. First, our 11pm arrival was delayed until nearly 1am. I was then up until 3:30am blogging. Then in the morning we were required to go through immigration. That was … Continue reading
TP1 Day 35: San Francisco CA to Fort Myers FL
Another day of air travel. This one was less grueling than Day 34 – only(?) 8 hours. But we were already dog tired so it seemed longer. We arrived in San Francisco around 11am and our flight – to New York – did not leave until 9:30pm. That gave us nearly a full day in … Continue reading
QTE Hop 1: Aguanga, CA, to Williams, AZ
454 miles via CA 79, I-10, CA 177, CA 62, AZ 95 and I-40. Day 1: Aguanga, CA, to Lake Havasu City, AZ The first day of this two-day hop was 279 miles, of which about 150 were through desert that was excessively hot, even by desert standards. I was pretty worried about how the … Continue reading
So long, California, you’ve been gnarly
Today, with any luck, we will leave California. We might be back (though Jett swears otherwise), but it won’t be for a year or more, I suspect. To get out we need to travel through record heat along a road with no travel services for 100 miles and probably without cell phone service most of … Continue reading
My penultimate commute
I would have saved this for tomorrow, but that would have been my final commute to Temecula and it is so much more fun to say penultimate. Anyway, I wanted to document, for my memories as much as for anyone else’s edification, the glorious first 15 miles of my commute (or last 15, if I … Continue reading
San Diego
When I destroyed my new camera while stupidly wading into the Cabo surf with it still in my pocket, I thought that the photos on the memory card would be intact. But I failed in several attempts to read the files from the card. Then I lost the card. After being on the damn-I-wonder-what-I-did-with-that list … Continue reading
Easy Come, Ez-Go
One of the tasks on our list of Things to Do Before We Head East is selling our Ez-Go golf cart. To do so, we posted “for sale” signs in all of the Rancho California laundry rooms, asking $1,600, which is what we paid. I figured that there would be limited, if any, interest and … Continue reading
LA and other imaginary places
Los Angeles is real. I know; I’ve seen it. But it doesn’t seem real. It is bigger than real. The place of movie stars and the 4-car family. Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Mulholland Drive, Sunset Strip, Malibu, South Central, Disneyland, Charles Manson, Universal Studios, and the Beach Boys. Iconic names and images that shaped my life. … Continue reading