Here we are, on the road: We’re in Palm Springs

12/15/13 Chuck’s report

We are still here in Palm Springs, the weather is starting to get back to normal after being cool for the past week or so. And there are more folks showing up everyday but it doesn’t get full until after Christmas when the rest of the snowbirds leave their homes and head South.

This will be a short report as we didn’t do a heck of a lot this week. I thing we went to either lunch, dinner or a buffet with Joe and Alice every day except for two this week. It’s funny, we hardly see each other when we are back in Washington but manage to spend lots of time with them when we are 1200 miles away from home.

We’ve seen our friends from Lewis and Clark but haven’t spent too much time with them this trip. Hope to do better in January when we return. We did manage to give some of them oranges we picked when we came through Bakersfield two weeks ago. Boy are the fresh oranges and tangerines good!

Lorraine and I also went by the Ford dealer to look at Ford Explorers and the Chevy dealer to look at Equinox, Traverse and also the Cadillac SRX. We stayed at Brian and Sue’s in Mass this fall and he suggested we look at Cadillac, the price for Cadillac base model is comparable to a loaded Chevy with lots of options that are standard on the Caddy. He was right and the car drove/looked nice. I have been emailing a guy from Michigan who is coming South this year and is interested in our tow car. If he wants it, I will have to get something to replace it and we are looking now so we have a better idea of what’s out there and what kind of prices they are asking. I still want to look at other manufactures too so at this point, everything is on the table.

Like I said earlier, the weather is finally getting back to normal after being cool. The normal here is for highs in the lower 70s, they are talking mid 80s next week. We were only getting into the high 60s earlier this week. And there was freeze warning at night, I don’t think we got quite to freezing but it was close. I have the oranges sitting on our picnic table and put them in the car to protect them two different nights.

We are leaving here tomorrow, spending one night on the road and will be back at Santa Clara Elks lodge on Tuesday. We will stay there through Christmas, not sure how much longer past that. Stanford is going to the Rose Bowl again but Susy was unable to get tickets. I think she can still attend with the Stanford band but don’t know if she had decided to go that route or not. I think we will watch it on TV, wherever we happen to be on New Years Day.

When we get back to the Bay area both Lorraine and I have to get some blood tests done before we see our doctor for our annual physicals. We saw them last time mostly just to get our prescriptions updated, now it’s time for the rest of the annual stuff.

We are planning on meeting Joe and Alice this morning at one of the casinos this morning. We can’t get the Seattle Seahawks football game with our Direct TV subscription so hope to watch the game there. Here’s hoping they get back on a winning streak after a loss last week but a trip to the East Coast is always tough.

We didn’t take too many pictures this week so I’ll add a few here and get going with our day.

Our site here at 1000 Trails, lots of palm trees.