Lazy Days

• Like a kid waiting for Santa, I am sitting here waiting for the propane delivery man to arrive. I felt a little better after talking with other folks who had also pulled off the road without a full propane tank just before the incredibly cold Christmas week. Better, yes; warmer, no. It is a lesson learned on a long list of lessons.



• The Southern California sun comes up around 7 a.m., blasting all day to provide incredible warmth. When the sun disappears around 5 p.m., the heat quickly follows. Although the nights of below-freezing temperatures are apparently at an end, it still gets quite chilly and as long as I can see snow - even if just on distant hills - I am looking forward to a blast of furnace heat in the late evenings and early mornings.
  

• Yesterday I set out on foot to explore the local area. Golden Village is on the edge of Hemet so a right turn from the gate takes you toward dairy farms and a left turn takes you to a series of malls. Thankfully I had dressed in layers; tee-shirt, sweat-shirt, fleece hoodie, jeans, socks, sneakers. By the time I came back in early afternoon, I had peeled off the outer layers and happily changed to light weight clothes and sandals.

• MineRVa is parked with her front-end pointing south. The sun that had been so welcome in the morning had turned her into a hot house. I pulled down my awning only to discover that because of the angle of the sun, the awning wasn’t providing any shade. So, I wandered down the street, picked out a different site facing north and went to the office to arrange a site-change. This was easily done since Golden Village, like the other RV parks I’ve visited, has lots of vacancies at a time of year when they are usually turning folks away.

• I didn’t move to my new site immediately because I do not want to miss the propane man. It will be a bit of work to unhook everything but will be worth the effort since I have already decided to stay here for February as well as January. I made this decision for two reasons: this is a really nice place with friendly people and lots to do, and the national forecast for the next three months isn’t promising anything particularly nice for road travel. As more RVers are arriving from the northern States and Canada they all are reporting lousy travel conditions.
  

• There are lots of activities here at Golden Village. On Saturdays there is always an open hamburger stand and live entertainment down by the pool. Although this week's singer was wearing a winter jacket, she did belt out some familiar 60s tunes which got the 55+ crowd singing along and dancing. The resort’s activity office has ads for all kinds of day-trips and I’m hoping to find one for the 40-mile trip to Disneyland. I can hear Mickey Mouse calling my name so I will find a way to visit the Magic Kingdom.