Back in Southern California

We've safely arrived at Santee, CA, so we're back in southern California & close to San Diego,  Weather's in the high 60s and mostly cloudy as there's a low up around the northwest that's throwing fronts down this way.  This will be our first chance for rain since leaving Colorado Springs.  The pictures are of the campground here in Santee Lakes Recreational Preserve. 

We're just now getting out & about and finding our way around.  Drove over to the coast looking for a knitting store and came back.  Haven't seen this type of traffic since Denver.  Got use to Lake Havasu City and its small town atmosphere, so now we're learning to live in the "big" city, again.  Made the mistake of walking into a Best Buy and walked out a little poorer.  Oh, and we're quickly getting use to the better selection of restaurants!

Unimpressed with this photo?  That's all solar panels on the roof!

As you may or may not be aware, we added a new roof top satellite TV antenna, replaced the over-the-air TV antenna, had the truck's shock absorbers replaced, and had everything washed & waxed while at Lake Havasu City.  The new satellite TV antenna is much more convenient, but we're keeping the portable one as a backup.  And the new shocks (Rancho 9000) gave a much improved ride.  For the non-off road folks, these are adjustable shock absorbers.  We've set them to be slightly softer than the stock shock absorbers that came on the truck and it worked well on I-8 and it's espansion joints.  We did - unintentionally - set the shocks on the softest setting while in Lake Havasu City, and it was the best ride we'd ever experienced in the truck.  We've got more experimenting to do, but we're happy with the Rancho 9000s.

Anyway, that's it for now.  We're here through Christmas before going up to Pasadena for the Rose Parade.  Donna has a cousin in the area we need to look up.  I'm tyring to find a guy I use to work with from NAVAIR who moved out here when SPAWAR came out here in the mid-90s.  And Donna's aunt & uncle are due here in a couple of weeks.  So that's what we're doing. 

Later, David