Category: Journeys
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Dry, Oh My!
Davis Monthan Air Force Base Fam Camp is a highly desired winter home. With three and five month extended stay options, snowbirds can drive west for 70/40 average temps and pay less than a month’s mortgage in an average DC home. Operating on a first come, first served basis, no reservations can mean long wait…
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Betty Needs a New Pair of Shoes
Pro rider climbing 4000 feet on I-8 through the lower Rockies in his yellow safety vest. Crazy, but I-8 is the least elevation for a bike route across those mountains and into the desert. GPS showed 60 miles to the first sign of civilization east of the pass – El Centro. An hour for us;…
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Red Hot and Blue
Another great night’s sleep on natural latex and we were up early with the Blue Angels’ Saturday morning practice session. There’s nothing like coffee and a private stunt jets show to start the day. Eric’s routine is Sheri’s surreal. It seems like a live action movie to her, and another day at the office for…
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Blue Angel Backyard
As the morning DJs on 100.7 KFMB in San Diego forecasted 8 days of sunshine after one of the worst winter storms in its history, we pulled up the jacks and headed east, saying so long to the new SEAL class across the street running in formation. Betty flexed her V10 might rolling into Imperial…
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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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Gimme Shelter
The atmospheric river rushed into San Diego on Wednesday night, pummeling us with rain and wind for 36 hours straight. At times Betty was shaking like the roof would blow off but she kept us warm and dry with plenty of things to do like scouring the kitchen sink, finishing a consulting project, political and…
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Maritime Musings
It was the calm before the storm – the last half day of dry before departure from 30 days in San Viewego. As we’ve written before, it’s been a wet one here and the radar was telling us we could go to the ball, but be back by the stroke of 2pm or get walloped….
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Gimme a Breaker
El Nino is wreaking havoc on San Diego’s winter weather bringing more rain than seen in a decade. Starting tomorrow an atmospheric river from the sub-tropics will drench San Diego County with enough rain to fill 3 million swimming pools. Valentine’s Day love for the thankful locals who embrace it, knowing full well that the…