'19/#22 Still Here And Looking More Like Summer

In my last blog I commented on how the summer here was looking nor feeling anything like we expected summer to be. Well July is almost here and things are finally changing. Daytime temperatures are regularly in the 70's with occasional 80 degree days. We actually had two, yes TWO, days when the temperature reach 90 degrees! The reaction of the locals had us believing we were on the surface of the sun but I guess that is what it feels like to them. Having dealt with months at a time of high 90's and lows in the 80's in Florida for so many years the heat wave here felt kind of nice to us. To quote Jimmy Buffet, "changes in latitudes....".

KOA has been super busy with school now out in the area. Plenty of locals come here just to get away from the routine at home. There are still a number of contractors for PG&E here and the tourists are filling everything else. In other words we have NO vacancies every weekend. This past weekend NASCAR had their race at Sonoma Raceway also know as Sears Point. The track is only 20 miles from here so we had a lot of racing fans arrive last week and staying into this week. Needless to say, another busy weekend.

On our days off we took a drive out Reyes Point. There is a lighthouse there that Mary would loved to have seen but it is under renovation. The views from the promontory made the trip worth our time. We also saw Drakes Bay where the elephant seals congregate. Earlier in the spring the beach was supposedly covered with the seals but today there were only a couple on the beach and another handful swimming near the shore. It was still cool to see the area and the seals that were there.

As I said it was worth the drive because it took us well over an hour over horrendous roads to get there. We went through a number of small bohemian, artsy-fartsy,  everything organic towns and stopped to look and take some pictures. The National Seashore is separated from the mainland by Tomales bay which was created and runs right along the San Andreas fault. We opted not to take any boat rides that day but did take some pictures.

Well it is back to work today so I will sign off now and get ready for another day of work camping here in our home in Petaluma because.......

Home is where we park it,
Frank and Mary

'19/#21 Seasons Of Wonder or I Wonder What Season?

Well here it is the first of June a maybe summer is coming? The whole month of May the temperatures rarely reach 70 degrees and usually stayed in the upper 50's to mid 60's. Overnight temperatures were always in the 50's and occasionally the upper 40's. That explains the unattributed quote, "the coldest winter I ever saw was a summer in San Francisco". The highs for the next few days looks like it will be right around 70 degrees. The locals are dreading the summer heat when it gets up to 80 degrees! They should spend a summer in Florida,south Texas, or Arizona! Although Texas and Arizona it is only a dry heat. LOL!

On a different subject, our roomie the turkey caught my wrath and a couple of pellets from my BB gun the other morning. He or she seamed to just shrug it off but  it hasn't been back since. Maybe it got the message that it is not welcome here. We are still a bit ticked off because now we wake up at 5:45 am anticipating the "gobble" alarm. I hate that @%^%&#%#%;@ turkey!

We are in another weekend at the Petaluma KOA and the crazyness has started. Friday we had 175 camper check ins! Most of them are locals just getting away from the house and the usual weekend chores. Kids are running amok and parents are dealing with the kids with judicious amounts of beer and wine. Not so much to cause trouble but enough for their children to need better supervision. Oh well. It makes the night patrol interesting until about midnight or 1am and then all pretty much quiets down just to start up again on Saturday. This is supposed to be the routine for the rest of the summer.

It is time to start getting ready for work so I will say goodbye for now from our home in Petaluma because.....


Home is where we park it,
Frank and Mary