Home Again

It’s nice to be home again… after a jam-packed week in California. I love California; I lived in the Golden State for almost 35 years.

But I love the Evergreen State even more.

Today it was forecast to be 90-degrees in Sacramento where we flew out of this morning. However it was a cool 65-degrees with a protective cloud cover when we landed in Seattle just before noon. And no smog.

Last Thursday it was a hazy 105 when we arrived in Sacramento. I had to find a small spot of leather on the rental car steering wheel in order to even touch it. I would have blistered had I grabbed the hard plastic circle.

I guess we’re not used to the heat anymore.

On the other hand, in spite of the desert-like conditions, we enjoyed our trip immensely. We got to visit with five couples with whom we've been friends for over 40 years. More blog posts upcoming on that.

And we really enjoyed a full day last Saturday at Quaker Meadows Camp and Retreat Center, some 7,200 feet up in the high Sierras above Porterville. We were there with a large group of Friends (note the capital “F”) celebrating the 50th wedding anniversary of Kennard and Margene Haworth (pictured above), parents of our daughter-in-law Elaine (Gregg’s wife).

The trip odometer on the rental car turned 1,000 miles as we drove into the airport this morning. We really covered a lot of territory, but that’s par for the course when traveling in the expansive State of California.

Methinks we’ll sleep well tonight.