Earthquake

This morning at 6:22 am there was a 4.4 earthquake centered in Los Angeles near University of California Los Angeles.  This is the second earthquake we've seen on the news since arriving in California a little over a week ago.  In neither case did we feel anything and for that I am grateful.  I am not keen to experience my first earthquake at any time this year while we are in California.

Today was laundry day and the theory of getting shirts that wash and then hang to dry without the need to iron them proved to be a good decision.  Washer/dryer combinations in coaches are notorious for not drying clothes well.  The dryer portion takes forever.  One of these days I fully intend to upgrade our system by purchasing a separate dryer at Camping World, but in the meantime it is amazing how well drying the cotton/polyester collection of shirts on hangers that we wore at last week's meeting worked out.  Yippee!  My Monday wash day brings me back to Lancaster, PA last September where we saw so many lines of laundry strung across the porches of Amish homes on Mondays.  We are not allowed to have laundry lines in an RV park.  So the solution became hanging shirts on every cabinet door handle up and down the interior of the coach, throwing open the windows for the sun and breeze to come in and presto-laundry done!  This is just another way to make a full time RV lifestyle easier and more cost effective than pushing multiple quarters into a dryer.

For the second evening in a row, we walk tonight along the shore of Mission Bay through the mobile home park that fronts it.  Crickets chirp and birds begin settling down for the night along the water's edge.  Lights begin to twinkle across the hills of San Diego to the east as the pink sky turns to gray tones and then darkens.  There is a peacefulness even in the midst of the still busy city that brings another day calmly to an end.  The air smells fresh and its dampness carries a chill that makes us wish we had worn coats.  We return to the coach with Snoopy watching for us at the door.  This is the good life of being on the road.