This Day In History . . .
Ours, at least.
April 22, 2010
Shopping Day . . .
Today was the first day in a while we weren’t on the go, so we slept late and took it easy.
About 10:30 I went over to the office to extend our stay here another 4 days. So now we’ll be leaving on Monday morning. Maybe.
Coming back, I made coffee and we had one of the muffins we brought home from Marie Callenders. Then at 11 am we watched ourselves on The Bonnie Hunt Show while Jan tried to catch up on her journal, but Mister wasn’t much help. He’s never met a horizontal surface he didn’t like.
About noon we headed out for the lunch buffet at Shakey’s Pizza.
Leaving the RV park, we noticed a LOT of new snow on the mountains just west of here in the Los Padres National Forest. It was 37 degrees and raining here last night. Looks like it was colder and snowing in the mountains last night. Here it is almost May and it’s still snowing in California. Isn’t Global Warming wonderful!
After stopping for gas, we headed over to Costco. It was only our 2nd time at one since we became members in Tucson. I guess you could say it’s like Sam’s Club, but different.
Next we stopped off at Albertson’s to get some things that Costco didn’t have, or had too much of. I mean, we didn’t need 5 lbs. of strawberries. A pound would be fine.
We got home about 3pm, just in time for a nap.
Yesterday, coming back from LA we stopped off at a viewing area along the freeway that looks out over Lake Palmdale and the California Aqueduct. It’s really a nice view.
That’s the Aqueduct in the foreground.
Tomorrow we’re going to drive back into LA, eat lunch at Esther’s Taco House, visit Olvera Street, one of the oldest areas in LA, dating from the 1870’s, and then drive Mulholland Dr. thru the Santa Monica Mountains, above Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
More then…
April 22, 2017
Peggy Sue and Primm Too . . .
We were hooked up and out on Boulder Hwy. heading to I-15S by 9:15 after a great two weeks here at the Las Vegas Thousand Trails.
We were heading for our first visit to the Soledad Canyon Thousand Trails about 15 miles south of Palmdale, CA for a one week stay.
Passing through Primm and into California, we saw the Ivanpah Solar Generating Plant off to the right of the highway.
With almost 350,000 mirrors focused on 3 ‘Power Towers’ it generates as much as 390 megawatts . . . on a sunny day, of course. Really impressive.
Our one stop along the way was in Yermo, CA, just east of Barstow to have lunch once again at Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner. Located right off the Interstate, it is surrounded by two very large parking lots, not only big enough for to park our RV, but big enough to hold a decent size RV Rally.
We’ve stopped here several times before and it’s always been good, and today was no different.
Peggy’s looks like a 50’s diner, right down the waitresses in their lime-green uniforms right down to those little white hats they wore.
Jan had the Patti Page Patty Melt with Curley Fries and Cole Slaw,
while I had the King Kong Burger with a 1/2 pound patty, Cheese, Bacon, and Curley Fries, as well as a really good cup of Navy Bean Soup with Bacon.
As you can tell from the food names above, Peggy Sue’s is loaded with movie memorabilia, because ‘Peggy Sue’ and her husband both worked in the movie industry for years and collected 1000’s of items that they used to decorate the place.
They’re also known for their homemade pies, so we got a couple of pieces to go.
And if you’ve got kids there’s even a dinosaur playground out back.
Back on the road, it took us another 2-1/2 hours to make the last hundred miles, mostly due to having to cut over on SR-18 below Victorville to hook up with the Antelope Valley Fwy, just a few miles above the park.
We got to the park about 3:30 and only 90 minutes later we were finally parked. Turns out Soledad is one of those parks where they give you a map and let you wander aimlessly until you find a site you like.
Unfortunately, for the first hour every site we liked had a small red X on the pedestal, designating it as No Electric, the X being small enough that you pretty much had to get out of your vehicle to see it.
We were told that 50 amp was available, but what working pedestals we could find were all 30 amp, and with not 20amp socket to use my AC bypass.
Finally I called the office and asked the young lady where all the 50 amp sites were. She said, “There are a of them in ‘B’ . . . but it’s full.”
Well that was a lot of help.
But with the help of another RV’er we found a nice 50 amp site with trees AND a good satellite view.
So we’re set for the week.
Brandi sent over these pics of Landon’s first hockey lesson.
Looks like he’s up on the skates pretty well.
Thought for the Day:
“Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn’t sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.”
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