Category: Admiral Baker
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All Roads Lead to GO
It’s appropriate that the last full day in San Diego was spent with Betty, watching a cold, windy rain with intermittent hail drench the cove while waiting for Fed Ex to deliver our new mattress. Forget that it was the coldest, wettest SoCal winter in 10 years. This San Diego adventure surpassed our expectations, because…
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The Errands of our Sunset Cliff ways
Having exhausted most of the bikeable destinations in and around Coronado, a drop the cell phone and crack the screen error created a 41 mile errand. We spent most of President’s Day grooming Betty and using North Island fitness center wifi to reflect on the speedy recovery of the markets and our response to it,…
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We Can See Coronado Now
We could see clearly now the rain was gone, we could see all possibilities in our way. Gone were the atmospheric clouds that had us confined. It was a bright, bright, bright sunshiny Saturday. Flying the coop we researched all events within Como reach and decided to embrace local status and hang on the island…
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Checking Out
All good things must come to an end. In the two weeks as residents of Mission Valley’s Admiral Baker RV park we biked 300 miles, summited three mountains, toured 10 museums, invaded three beach towns and earned our San Diego bike warrior wings. Ready to move we spent Sunday and Monday checking out. First we…
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Balboa Park Culture Club
In the words of Culture Club’s Boy George, “Do you really want to hurt me? Do you you really want to make me cry?” Then buy me the 7 day, 16 museum Balboa Park Explorer Pass. Signs and banners everywhere extoll the ONE PASS for all 16 museums. If the signs don’t convince you, the…
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My Way or the Highway?
The I-8 cuts San Diego in half with its 12 lanes of high-speed traffic. Each day we search for roads (other than QualComm Blvd} that cross this highway without it being a white knuckle adventure. Most of the time, however, we are depending on hand signals, the yellow vest and yelling to navigate traffic at the…
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Kwaay Paay it Forward
After 10 days of biking, hiking and touring San Diego our bodies feel the use. It’s not really aches and pains. Sore hasn’t set in and deterred us from activity. We don’t know the right word, but it’s the aftermath of exerting energy beyond our comfort zone and feeling it all over. Hobbling is involved,…
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Viva Fortuna!
We’ve finally adjusted to west coast time, coffee at 6:30, dayplanning til 7:30, rewiring the electrical circuits by 8:30. Betty has a curious lighting design – a mix of undercounter and decorative fixture halogens, fluorescent industrials and incandescent spots. 18 lights in an 8×14 room. For most people, on and off works. For us, finding…
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West Coast Chillin’
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that we are not on vacation – just full-time livin’ in an RV. Fourteen days into our west coast expedition and we could only count one day of downtime where we weren’t hiking, biking or accumulating some write-worthy experience, and that was the day it rained. Even though it…
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Voy a La Jolla
La Jolla is 90 minutes and 20 miles as the Como flies so it was surprising when Eric said, “Let’s go to La Jolla today.” But, with an ebike everything within about a 25 mile radius is within our reach. From Baker, that may not get you to LA, but it covers all of San…