The alarm went off at 4:30am as planned. The only time I hear this song is when some extraordinary thing is happening, in most cases revolving around international travel, where we have a plane to catch to some new to us destination. Nearly in all of those cases, the alarm is only a formality, as on those days sleep never comes, departure anxiety forcing me to look...
I woke up in the morning, and opened the trailer door, the tinted windows and black out curtains of the trailer belying what was beyond them. A crack of the door was all that was needed to make me recoil and shade my eyes with my hand against a sun whose intensity we haven’t experienced in months. Sunbeam RV park indeed. Stepping out of the trailer, I was...
We left Pasadena mid morning, saying our good byes to our hosts, and retracing the last day of our journey to Los Angeles. Starting with the 100ft driveway, this time going in forward, we pointed East on the 210 highway, traveling opposite of the morning commuter traffic that flows each morning from the San Gabriel Valley, a melting pot of asian communities, and...
With the forecast of a bomb cyclone coming through the week, creating all the weather conditions except those representative of the California Dreaming I’ve been doing for the last several months, we were still able to accomplish our main objective of getting on a boat. Monday 1/2/23 In the morning the park ranger stopped by, and told us that we would not be...
We had a wonderful new year’s evening with our friends who made home-made tempura vegetables, and soba noodle miso soup so good that it turns words into grunts. Like most other places that are not in the Eastern time zone, California celebrates New Year’s eve twice, once with New York, at 9pm local time, and once at local midnight. Honestly, after the...
I’m so excited that we’ll arrive “home” to Los Angeles again today, that I don’t get a wink of sleep. Exhausted, with my head on my pillow, I impatiently look out the window and wait for the sunrise to peek over the Orocopia mountains and light up the mountains of Joshua Tree National park on the opposite side of the valley, before...
The City of Rocks park is something to see. I walked around winding myself through the maze of alleys between the boulders, with something to see around every corner. Some of the boulders stand alone, imposing in their own right arranged like buildings defining a street; others balancing unconvincingly on top of each other, ready to roll down and crush you at any...