April 24, 2006
An Idyll-Wild-Weekend
Ok, so I happened to get a Friday and Saturday off in a row, so Karen and I decided to head up into the mountains and do some camping. Idyllwild, CA is about 2 hours Northeast of San Diego, in the San Bernardino Mountains. The forecast for Saturday and Sunday was slated as high 50's, partly cloudy and only a 20% chance of rain...what we thought would be perfect camping weather. So apparently partly cloudy at 6000 ft. means you're partly in the clouds. This lasted the entire way up the mountain, all day Saturday and Sunday. Also, that 20% chance of rain increases dramatically when you're inside a cloud...and when the temperature drops down close to freezing, the rain turns to sleet and then snow. Oh well, so much for the good weather...anyways...Saturday we drove around and saw some amazing sites, did a little off-roading in my truck and even did some climbing...in the clouds of course. With the continuing rain, we made an executive decision to purchase a tarp and stay the night as planned. I mean....how often do you eat steaks when you go camping??? That's right, we had NY Strips, roasted veggies and sweet potatoes for dinner....ahhh, the good life. With our fire raging, we settled in for the night...only to wake up to snow on the ground in the morning...could this get any more bizarre?? So we decided to pack it up and head into town for breakfast at JoAnne's. A very good decision...2 eggs, sausage, hash browns and biscuits and gravy for only $4.25...you can't beat that?!?! After another short site-seeing drive, we turned around and left the snowy pines for sunny palms...back to San Diego.
April 21, 2006
Wine Tasting - SoCal Stylez
Well a couple of weekends ago, the SD crew headed up to Temecula, CA for some wine tasting in celebration of many things (birthdays, phd's, spring and a thirst for LOTS of wine). So the caravan left around 11:30am on Sunday for the one hour drive up to T-town. We hit 6 wineries, bombarded an Argentinian BBQ, saw snow-capped peaks from a distance, harvested giant lemons from the Matson's lemon trees and finished the day at La Fogata Mexican Restaurant in Hemet, CA where the Matson's treated us to a post wine-o dinner. Had we tried harder, I'm sure we could have done more....oh well....next time....enjoy the pictures.
April 19, 2006
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