Before leaving we got news that our counter offer was accepted, so our house is conditionally sold. Hopefully things will go smoothly. We didn’t notice anyone stopping by, but apparently someone did stop by for long enough to add the “sale pending” to the top of the sign. We had hoped to be staying a…

Nothing like trying to orchestrate a cross continantental, international move during a pandemic to keep you busy – oh ya, while working on top of all that.

#loveyourparks6feetapart – Sierra Vista was one of the first places I hiked after moving to California. I’d been there a few other times but not recently. Since it is still open for hiking during Covid stay-at-home orders, I decided to head up there and go for a hike.

Next in my Santa Clara County Parks series is Calero County Park. I’m a little slow on sharing my photos from my hike in Calero County Park, in the Santa Cruz mountains. I hiked at the park on weekday and then on another weekday Scott and I mountain biked. This was one of the parks…

Today we decided to go for a hike up along the ridge where we ended our hike on one of our previous trips here. That time we started up the canyon following the river, and followed a stream bed up into the upper edge of the mountain. I recall it being very windy on that…

It was a little warmer today than it has been – so when we woke up to a beautiful sunny morning, I decided it was shower day. I wanted to shower yesterday, but the cold and then rainy weather deterred me. I didn’t feel grungy enough to justify pulling out the shower stuff in the…

In the afternoon, it went from being cold outside to a bit of a downpour. It rained enough that there was water flowing through the riverbed behind our campsite – although there is no sign of the water in the riverbed this morning.

Scott described it, I arrived back at the van “only marginally injured”. Just after the last picture was taken, I slipped on the way downhill and went down part of the hill on my butt, which would have been fine except the hills was made up of mostly sharp rocks!