Sierra Madre Environs

So we detoured to Sierra Madre so that Julie could have some catch-up time with her lifelong friend Kathy. I dumped myself at our hotel and Julie promptly left for the new Nordstrom Rack, whatever that is. With Halloween approaching I thought it might have something to do with torture displays, but that would not make any sense so I'll just have to keep guessing.

Oh, the behinds of horses! Our hotel is actually in Arcadia near the Santa Anita Race Track. I don't think it is a big race day because we could actually drive here without the normal big traffic backup that happens with those events.

Tomorrow it is on to Tucson. The joy of driving I-10 across the desert. If it was my first time I might be more interested, but I have started to identify unusually shaped desert flora and could play a guessing game with just about anyone if the subject was "what is over the next rise?"

Pismo Beach............Again

So we were sitting outside at the restaurant at our hotel in Shell Beach (next door to Pismo Beach) and it was about 72 degrees and a pod of dolphin was just scooting along parallel the beach and a quarter of a mile out. I happened to be eating fish. Life here is tough.

Some people here were concerned that it might get really, really hot by tomorrow - upper seventies or low eighties - because few things are air conditioned, including our room overlooking the ocean. Wimps.

Yearning

This is a web cam shot from the Posada condominiums in San Carlos and I look at it frequently as a reminder that we will soon be out of Oregon just ahead of the bit of weather that will be arriving soon. It is not uncommon here to measure our rainfalls by the wheelbarrow full, if one happens to be left out in the loading position. Just last week we had a brief rain that qualified as a half a wheelbarrow full.

The house we have rented is on the hill at the far end of the beach.

We should be arriving in Tucson on October 27th and will leave for San Carlos on the 1st of November.