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Saturday

Claudia has long since returned home from Eureka.  We continue to try to be more consistent with our exercise. Today we took Nikki over to the bay front trail, and walked about 2 1/2 miles. Not too cold, mild wind. After the walk Nikki still had enough energy to run around the dog park with the other dogs.

We have our driveway in Cathedral City reserved from January 1 to the end of April. We will probably not stay there that whole time however. I would, but Claudia misses the birds, fishes, garden etc. She is thinking about flying home during the trip to check on all of the above interests. It depends how expensive the flight would be.

We had about 25 trick or treater's, a lot of good costumes. Nikki was very good with minimal barking and not too much jumping up on little bodies.

This time of year:

 

 

Did I show this picture already?

 
 

 

Wednesday

Claudia reports from Eureka, that other than the weather, it is also boring. She comes home tomorrow. 

A bird in a bush:

Thursday

Lovely day today, after early fog. We drove the bikes down to the bay front trail, and did a ride about 5 miles or so. No wind for once. Not San Diego, but pretty nice.

The squirrels are happy to have us back.

Sunday

We are home again. A short drive up I 5 from San Diego in 2 days. All is as we left it. No disasters, and the cactus all look great after 6 weeks of growth.

We had a very nice skype conversion with the grand kids today. They are growing so fast.

Notice the professional clothing and trail mix blend.

Wednesday

All good things must end. (What about bad things. Do they end too?) Today is our last day here in San Diego. What a final day, lovely, sunny, no wind and warm. We rode our bikes. Claudia for an hour, me for half an hour. She walked about a mile with Nikki while I did the hot tub. We spent the afternoon walking around down town, the area called the GasLamp area. Had our final authentic Mexican meal.  In the morning we will finish packing up, fill the gas tank, hook up the tow car, and hit the road Jack.

Friday

Still here in San Diego.  We have been doing off road hikes, not real long, but building up in terrain and distance. Enough to get some wonderful blisters on my toes. We are still doing bike rides. Twice we have gone for an hour or more on the bikes. Not real fast, and definitely not too long. But a thousand miles starts with a single step, or something like that.  The weather has not been first class this week. Cool with low clouds in the a.m.  Constant slow on shore breeze.  We are both taking advantage of the hot tub here. Tempting to put one in at home, but I would not want to go out in the cold and dark to use it.  We had dinner with Marc yesterday, Mexican shell fish. I'm really maxing out on local lobster. 

I'm using my old mountain bike, with front suspension, and fat road tires. Still pretty light weight. Can't beat Titanium. Claudia is using her fold up bike. If we keep riding, she will surely want a new bike with better gears and higher handlebars.

We both got new hiking boots. Mine were fine for a week, then one hike I got blisters starting on the left toes. I bandaged up the two affected toes and the next hike was better. But, there is always a but isn't there, the other foot got ruptured blisters on two toes. So I got new socks, and bought moleskin for padding on the toes. Hopefully it is a cure.

Claudia really hates the mattress in the r.v. We have ordered a new mattress, to be delivered this Monday. Hopefully that will help both of our backs.  Oh yeh, my back. It is much better than it was when we first got here. My legs feel quite a bit stronger too. I had set a goal for myself of a 30 minute bike ride 3 days a week while we were here, and I have surpassed that. So I am happy about that.

Our plan is to leave here the middle of next week, to arrive home about the 16th or 17th. Marc and Jane will probably by very happy to have their lives back without having to put up with us.

On the last hike:

 

 

 

Marc can't afford a whole bike yet.

 

Even Nikki cannot figure out what this is.

 

Gorgeous day today. We went to see the marine corps air show. 

He took your other wheel and went that way:

 

It must be fun, I guess.

 
 
 

Thursday

Another wonderful day. We drove around the bay to Coronado, and to the nude beach. Well, nude for dogs anyway. Nikki loves to run with the big dogs, but is gentle enough for the little dogies too. We spent about 2 hours at the beach. Nikki is still afraid of the waves, but did get his feet wet up to the ankles.  It was so lovely, warm, short sleeve no wind wonderful. Claudia is very worried that Nikki will jump out of the car with the top off, so she held him on her lap all of the way.  We gave up trying to bathe him, and have an appointment for grooming tomorrow morning.

There is a big air show at the MCAS this weekend, we are going to watch it with Marc and Jane.

This is from the Balboa Park here:

 

We hiked down to the beach and back in addition to the other paths.

 

Tuesday

We are really serious about our bike riding. We had a trailer hitch applied to the car today, with a two bike rack. Now we can ride over hills and dales.  Claudia's respiratory problems continue to tire her out.  First we thought it was asthma, but it did not respond to asthma treatment. Now she is using over the counter cold/allergy meds with some relief. 

We have decided to skip the balloon festival, again, and we are going to stay here in San Diego for another 2 weeks. 

Here is a picture of one of my cactus just before we left home.

Here it is now.

Here we are hiking around the Torrey Pines state reserve.

I really dress-for-success don't I?

Monday

We had another wonderful day.  After my daily hot tub, we drove to Point Loma. This is a peninsula that forms a large part of the natural harbor of San Diego. This is also where we have arranged to spend eternity. We hiked about 2 to 3 miles up and down trails, including some tide pools. Unfortunately we left the camera sitting on the table beside the r.v. so have no pictures to share.

Tomorrow we are going to have a bike rack applied to the P.t. cruiser. We want to increase the variety of our bike rides. Especially Mission Bay. 

We really do not want to leave here on Wednesday.

We found a Home Depot store, and stocked up on plant food, potting soil, and a few good pots.