We made the 90-mile trip from Jamul to Menifee, California, without incident. We arrived at the Wilderness Lakes Thousand Trails preserve just in time to find a perfect site---located near the entrance, so we could come and go quickly and so Becky could take the dogs off-property easily.
For some time, I've been thinking about upgrading our living room DirecTV receiver (it's 11 years old) to a receiver that also is a digital video recorder. (We don't have the necessary basic hardware to include high definition capability.) I ordered the new receiver when we were in Pio Pico and scheduled its installation for January 19th at Wilderness Lakes. The technician (Eber) arrived on schedule and spent the next two hours completing the installation. The only disappointment was that we couldn't figure out how to add a second input line, given how our trailer is constructed, so we cannot use the "record one show while watching another one" feature. Otherwise, the gizmo works very well and is a treat. It's so much easier than dealing with video tape.
We had very few plans for this stay. One was to go to Pasadena on Saturday (the 22nd) for a wine tasting thrown by Becky’s Organization of Women Executives. It was fun. Honoria Vivell and Richard Petrie were there, as were a number of Becky’s buddies from the organization We had a nice talk with the winemaker from Buttonwood Farms (located in the Santa Ynez area). She was an expatriate from the corporate world who started to work there in a peon job as a lark and ended up responsible for all their wines. Quite an impressive climb up the ladder.
Bob and Beverly Newhouse, who live in nearby Murietta, decided to join us at the RV park. They brought their motor home and parked right across the street from us. At dinner (Coco’s) one night, Beverly admitted that she enjoys their RV so much that she really didn’t want to go home. We played Rummikub with them several times. They are fun to be with.
We went to a second-run (i.e., cheap---$3.50 each) theater in Temecula to see Social Network. It was very interesting, and well done. We later discovered we could have picked it up at a Red Box for just a buck.
On Saturday (the 30th) Barbara Coad came down from Los Angeles and we did some wine tasting in Temecula. We ended up at Maurice Car’rie and bought (and ate) one of their loaves of bread that is loaded with brie cheese. This is the umpteenth time we have done that. They are always so good, though terrible for our waistlines.
We went back to Maurice Car’rie on Monday (after a trip to Costco to load up on stuff) and bought a loaf to give to the Newhouses. Except on the weekend, they don’t cook the bread, but leave it up to the buyer to cook it at his convenience. That was perfect for us. After we gave the loaf to the Newhouses, we remembered that they don’t have the necessary type of oven in their RV, so we will have to cook it for them, which means they had to invite us to join them in eating it---which we did on Tuesday (February 1st). Yum!
We played pickle ball several times. Most of the players were the same people Becky had played with when we were at Palm Springs. They were all better players than I am, of course. Eventually, they all left---to return to Palm Springs.
We had lovely weather until the very end, when it drizzled on and off for a few days.
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