I'm not doing ANY driving today at all! Pulled into this campground in San Diego about noon yesterday, paid for 16 days, and am going to settle down for a while before heading to Kansas. Drove out to my mom's yesterday afternoon and did a week's worth of laundry, played with her cat, and stuck some heavy stuff into her shed. My intention, way back in March, was to move back up to Portland, sell the RV, get a job, and find a place to live because it was getting too horribly expensive down here. Site rent was taking up almost all my small salary from working at the hotels on the beach and was going to double during the summer. So, I pulled all my not-needed-now-but-eventually stuff, like Christmas decorations and so forth, out of her shed, and have been carrying them around.
Well, Portland was nice, as usual, but I found out it was no longer home--kids moved to various parts of the country, my ex-DH's remarriage, and so forth. After living with ex-FIL and SIL, helping take care of FIL and their huge, over-stuffed house, this little RV started looking better and better. I finally moved out of the house and back into the RV, and lined up the Trinity Alps job, probably one of the smartest things I've ever done. It was an amazing three months up there this summer, the benefits and salary were good (and will be better next year), the scenery was fantastic, the hiking superb, and the guests almost all excellent and friendly. Since the lodge is a time share, everyone comes back each summer. With the exception of all the fires and smoke, it was a great summer. Adam and I both received excellent bonuses with our final paychecks, and that helped with the gas driving back down here. If I'm careful, it will also take care of the trip to Kansas later in October.
So, today I'm going to just kick back, read an actual Sunday paper for the first time in three months, and take it easy. My good friend Lou is coming over this afternoon and we'll probably go exploring somewhere, perhaps the desert. However, he'll drive! With the exception of our pretty crappy meeting in Tucson two months ago--he had just had a wisdom tooth pulled and was pretty much out of it--we haven't been together since the beginning of March. I even treated myself to a spa pedicure yesterday afternoon--after three months of wearing sandals in the dusty, rocky mountains, you can imagine what the old tootsies looked like.
Tiome to go take a shower, buy a paper, and have some banana bread, fresh strawberries, orange juice, and whatever else I can find for breakfast. I made the banana bread for lodge guests, and there was still some left over. Hope you all have a wonderful day!