Sunday, March 7. 2010
A sunday afternoon drive..
Well, hello there. Coming to you from a rainy Sunday morning...Just finished my SaildiveBVI charter blog web work, now I will try and get up a personal blog and then I think I am free to roam for the afternoon.
Have to explore our new living environment you know! Yesterday we went up a bit to Lake Elsinore and then over to San Juan de Capistrano before going down the coast to San Diego and back.
This is just north of where we are, about 10-15 minutes, Lake Elsinore. We looked at about 17 different houses out there one day. I really think the realtor misunderstood us when we said we did not want any yucky areas. Although not yucky and scary, it certainly was not my idea of an "ok" neighborhood (for me, let me clarify that...)
Housing was affordable. If you wanted a place for a hundred thousand, you could find one. Of course you had to debate whether you wanted the ten dogs beside you with the jacked up cars on one side of you, or the condemned HUD houses on the other. When we left there, I did not ever want to go back. It also has somewhat of a hippie/biker feel, at least the area we were at. But then the next day I saw the tattoos on our realtor and realized why she said she would like to live out there!
Anyways, here is a couple pictures of the lake there, just as we turned. Yes, I did climb a hill. Yes, I thought I was going to die. Moving right along...
Drove through some forests, watched the clean up from a car going over the mountain! and was glad we were in the car NOT the RV while I was looking over...Made it to the coast a short time late and turned south...
Ah, yes, forgot this picture...Bazza enjoying the view in the hills, threatening me about putting the pic on the blog! Hey Bazza, it is so much better then a conch shell picture isn't it?
There appears to be no shortage of seagulls here on the beach either. Thank god. I would hate to not see a ton of them like everywhere else we live. In Victoria they are very bad at shitting on our car!!
Down to the Enbarcadero in San Diego. Lots of glass, lots of flash... What we could see in between the rain drops anyways!
We wandered around looking at the boats in the Maritime Museum...
And saw the Star of India...
And even though there is not ONE single solitary boat here that I want, I LOVE the rigging on them all....
Watched more birds who were not afraid of us at all...
Watched a couple cruise ships leave in a monsoon. Somehow cocktails on the back deck was not sounding like such a great idea watching! Also instead of tshirts watched the outside vendors selling jackets and the tourists with socks in their teva sandals! Had lunch at the Elephant and Castle and was immediately jealous of Bazzas roast beef and yorkshire pudding instead of my fish and chips, took him down to the border with Tijuana so he could see it and back home!
Have to explore our new living environment you know! Yesterday we went up a bit to Lake Elsinore and then over to San Juan de Capistrano before going down the coast to San Diego and back.
This is just north of where we are, about 10-15 minutes, Lake Elsinore. We looked at about 17 different houses out there one day. I really think the realtor misunderstood us when we said we did not want any yucky areas. Although not yucky and scary, it certainly was not my idea of an "ok" neighborhood (for me, let me clarify that...)
Housing was affordable. If you wanted a place for a hundred thousand, you could find one. Of course you had to debate whether you wanted the ten dogs beside you with the jacked up cars on one side of you, or the condemned HUD houses on the other. When we left there, I did not ever want to go back. It also has somewhat of a hippie/biker feel, at least the area we were at. But then the next day I saw the tattoos on our realtor and realized why she said she would like to live out there!
Anyways, here is a couple pictures of the lake there, just as we turned. Yes, I did climb a hill. Yes, I thought I was going to die. Moving right along...
Drove through some forests, watched the clean up from a car going over the mountain! and was glad we were in the car NOT the RV while I was looking over...Made it to the coast a short time late and turned south...
Ah, yes, forgot this picture...Bazza enjoying the view in the hills, threatening me about putting the pic on the blog! Hey Bazza, it is so much better then a conch shell picture isn't it?
There appears to be no shortage of seagulls here on the beach either. Thank god. I would hate to not see a ton of them like everywhere else we live. In Victoria they are very bad at shitting on our car!!
Down to the Enbarcadero in San Diego. Lots of glass, lots of flash... What we could see in between the rain drops anyways!
We wandered around looking at the boats in the Maritime Museum...
And saw the Star of India...
And even though there is not ONE single solitary boat here that I want, I LOVE the rigging on them all....
Watched more birds who were not afraid of us at all...
Watched a couple cruise ships leave in a monsoon. Somehow cocktails on the back deck was not sounding like such a great idea watching! Also instead of tshirts watched the outside vendors selling jackets and the tourists with socks in their teva sandals! Had lunch at the Elephant and Castle and was immediately jealous of Bazzas roast beef and yorkshire pudding instead of my fish and chips, took him down to the border with Tijuana so he could see it and back home!
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