We are still in CA! Paul is seeing dealers in Southern CA so we spent 3 nights in Simi Valley at the Elks which is a very nice setting for the RV. Thursday night we enjoyed a $3 cheese burger with beer! You can’t beat that and they were cooked to order.
Thursday night a big wind storm started. We have now experienced the Santa Ana winds. Wow! We were scheduled to leave Simi Valley Friday about 1 pm. The winds were so strong and we needed to head into the mountains to get through LA! Not excited about this but the winds were not suppose to stop until Saturday afternoon. We are pretty flexible so we planned to wait and then I get the bright idea to look at the map! Yep, we could backtrack about 20 miles and miss the core of the winds.
By the time we got ourselves on the road it was 2:15 pm Friday afternoon and we are heading right into Los Angeles! Ouch! 118 miles to Riverside and we arrived at 7pm. The good news is we have Saturday and Sunday to enjoy the park we chose for this stop and relax.
Rancho Jurupa Park is located near Riverside CA and a very nice, very busy county park. They have lots of family activities like pond fishing, horseshoes, miniture golf, several playgrounds and disk golf.
Saturday we took a trip to Newport Beach for lunch with a friend of Paul’s. It was such a beautiful day and there were so many people out enjoying the sunshine and fresh air. After lunch we drove north a bit and stopped at Balboa Island. This place is crazy! Such a cute community with lots of homes nestled together and then around the island is watersports of every type. I would love to spend a few weeks here someday.
Saturday night I was in bed early and woken up by the neighbors about 11 pm who definitely had been drinking for way too long! And then there was the fighting, throwing “F” bombs, screaming, etc. It was actually scary for a little while. Finally, Paul decided someone was going to get hurt so he got up and called the Sheriff! The operator says “are they hurting anyone? we have had calls that they are causing physical harm to each other!” Paul tells the person he has no idea, it is loud and really out of control. About 5 minutes later 2 sheriff cars show up! More screaming and about 15 minutes later Paul watches a girl that just would not shut up no matter what the sheriff said to her get handcuffed and put in the back seat! Her boyfriend (we presume that is who he was based on the conversation we were invited to listen to!) also was handcuffed and taken away!
Just another day in Paul & Denise’s life!!!! Love my neighborhood!