November 23, 2009 – Ventura to Palm Desert

Whoopee! We’re back doing what I love best, traveling in the motorhome! I have been given to understand that this is not going to be a very long trip, but I’ll take what I can get. We were going to leave a couple of days ago, but Geri had to have a tooth pulled and needed to take a little time to make sure there were no painful hangovers from it (whatever a hangover is). They’ve spent the last couple of days loading up the rig with all the stuff we need to keep us clothed (well, not me), fed and medicated for the trip, and Don checked out all of the technical stuff on the coach to make sure everything was working right. One of the things we loaded was a book I got for Geri for her birthday recently, a book about dogs and how they think and what makes us do some of the things we do. Don read some of it to me, and it’s really right on. It’s called “Inside of a Dog”, and it was written by someone who really has her dog stuff on straight. She knows how much time we spend daily studying our humans, and what we learn from it.

Before I start on our travelogue, I must tell you about the new boarder we’ve acquired since our last trip. For several months, this guy has been hanging around the house and roaming the neighborhood, picking up food wherever he could. He’s an orange and white tomcat, who Geri has named Rusty, and he’s a pretty cool cat. When we got back from our last trip, up north, Geri found out that Maggie, our house watcher friend, had been slipping food to Rusty on a regular basis, and he was sitting at the patio door in the morning looking for his handout. So, he’s been adopted as an outdoor cat; I’ve got no problem with him, I just check in the morning to make sure he hasn’t wasted any food by dropping it on the floor of the patio.

So, back to the trip. We got underway before noon, which is good for us, and took the northern route around Los Angeles, through Pasadena, and made good time all the way, pulling into the Emerald Desert RV Park in Palm Desert before four in the PM. Geri had made a reservation for an upgraded site, and we got assigned to site 610 when she checked in. This place is all back-in sites, so Don had to pull into a site across the street from our site in order to back in properly. Geri had parked the truck, and guided Don into our space. Don got the hookups going, and Geri and I went off for a little walk. When we got back, Don was having problems with the satellite antenna and the TV, to the point of giving up on it. He was standing at the door of the rig, looking out mournfully, when he turned to Geri and said “Did you know that we’re in Site 609?” Oops! Geri called the office to see if we could get reassigned, and found out we could stay here for the night but we had to move next door in the morning. Big deal, I can make my move in just a few seconds.

Don made one of our favorites, meatball soup, for dinner, with good plates for me. We started work on the blog then, and I had to feel sorry for Don having to work through problems with internet connections going down on him regularly. But we finally got it done! Hope you like the new blogsite, and we’ll be adding some photos soon. We’ll be posting again soon! G’nite!