Off to Southern California
January 24th 2010
Published: January 30th 2010
Published: January 30th 2010
Today we had another really long driving day from Sacramento to Desert Hot Springs where Steve’s sister Barbara lives. We stopped to visit one of Steve’s sons, George, and granddaughter Sequoia in Victorville on the way. Desert Hot Springs is in the desert, ringed by mountains which are quite pretty right now because of the snow that fell recently. The desert got rain last week, and some of the streets were flooded so that Barb couldn’t get out to Palm Springs or Cathedral City to shop for a couple of days. But now, the sun is out, and we have found the nice weather (finally). Cool in the mornings and evenings, though, so we still need a sweater. I know, I know - I am NOT complaining! I hear we got a foot of snow at home. heeheehee
Dawn has a background in health and research, and works at the provincial government. Steve has a background in electronics engineering, and is retired (but busier than ever!). We were married in 2005. We share a love of early jazz and swing music from the 40's, nature, birds, good food, and each other. We discovered that we both wanted to see more of the world, so we are trying to do more of that (working around the boring real-life kind of stuff like limited vacation time and money!). Steve is a photographer, and Dawn does the writing, and this way we thought we could share our travel adv... full info
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