Places
General Delivery
Those few of you who have sent us mail recently know that our mailing address is General Delivery, Aguanga, CA. I have never had a General Delivery address before, but it makes me feel like I am living in Mayberry. General Delivery may not be the same as Rural Free Delivery (RFD), which is the … Continue reading
You can’t get there from here
We will be in California for another two months – until June 8. But it is not too early to think about the route that we will take to get back to Massachusetts. We are committed to arriving by July 15, so that means that we need to travel across the country in just 5 … Continue reading
Walking the cheetah
Great zoos are hard to find. There are good reasons for this, the primary one being cost. Keeping a Siberian tiger healthy and happy takes a lot of money. Another good reason is habitat. Koalas, for example, eat nothing but fresh eucalyptus leaves – you can’t even give them frozen ones. Housing arctic polar bears … Continue reading
Life on the links
For the first time in my life I am living on a golf course. We are renting a site here at Rancho California RV Resort that is close to the #3 tee. A little *too* close, perhaps. Looking at the site plan, we thought we would be safe from errant shots, but we didn’t take … Continue reading
Temecula
Temecula is a middlin’-sized town (about 100,000 residents) about an hour from Los Angeles, an hour from Palm Springs and an hour from San Diego. It is about 400 miles south of San Jose, which is why we are here: we were hoping that we would get warmer weather by moving closer to the Mexican … Continue reading
Patience, please
I haven’t written any long blog posts for a while, for two reasons: (1) I have been very busy with work and taxes for the past two weeks and (2) we lost our camera. The camera is not a great loss and, fortunately, it went missing just after I took off all the photos. But … Continue reading
The convenience of isolation
When we lived in Medford, MA, we had two major supermarkets within a mile, yet I often found myself looking at the refrigerator an 11 pm and discovering that I had no milk for my morning cereal. We now live in Aguanga, CA, which is ten miles from anywhere and 15 miles from the nearest … Continue reading
Wile E. sighting
Two days after I saw the roadrunner I saw a coyote, just outside the park gates. I guess those cartoons had more basis in reality than I thought.
Beep beep
I saw my first roadrunner yesterday. We were walking the dogs around the RV park and it just walked out of the bushes about 20 feet in front of us. Having been raised on Roadrunner cartoons, I couldn’t help but look around to see if Wile E. Coyote was hiding nearby, perhaps with an Acme … Continue reading
The trek-ula to Temecula
We left San Jose last Saturday, heading south in search of warmer temperatures. It was a 2-day trek with two wildly different segments. The first day was a bucolic trip down the central valley, a mostly-flat and fairly boring trip. There were a lot of orchards and vegetable fields lining I-5. The only hilly and … Continue reading