When we left the desert and drove over the ridge, the
weather changed dramatically. Instantly
we went from HOT: shorts and sandals to getting out sweaters and long
pants. The drive to Lake Elsinore was
fairly quick and easy even with the mountain in between. The park had a great view of the lake, but
the sites were VERY TIGHT. Luckily a
former truck driver was beside us, and helped us maneuver between the poles,
trees (yea!) and hook ups. I told him he
had earned his stripes as a marriage saver!!
I love it when RV parks have guides to the sites. Backing into a spot can be the true test of
marriage communication!! While Dave
tinkered with the RV, I drove back to the interstate where I had eyed an outlet
mall and bought an “Easter dress” and new pair of shoes.
Saturday we drove across the mountain down to the coast at
Dana Point and the Festival of Whales.
Parking was easy and we had a little time to walk around before the
nature lecture preceding the whale watch.
We learned a lot about pinnapeds and the research and rescue the Marine
Institute is doing. We were surprised at
how few people were on our large catamaran for the whale watch. There were probably 25 or so on a boat that
would easily hold 100. The captain and
his 2 mates used drones to fly out and find and photograph the whales. That was almost as fun to watch as the whales. This was our 3rd or 4th
whale watch and we saw more on it than all the others combined. At the end of the trip, the captain said we
had seen 9. Then at one point he
maneuvered us into a pod of dolphins and they swam along beside us and played
and put on a real show.
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| One of 2 drones |
Sunday we went to church in Lake Elsinore. We drove by the church about 10 minutes
before the service and there were only about a half dozen cars, so we drove
around the neighborhood for a while.
Even arriving “on the dot” there were not many folks. It was a very “old” congregation (only 1
family with 2 children and they did not go up to the children’s sermon or
dismiss for Sunday School) with a very young woman pastor. We enjoyed her sermon very much.
Then we drove over to Temecula to check out a few
wineries. We had not had much luck there
in the past, but this time we were impressed.
The town and number of wineries has grown exponentially over the last 10
years. This time we found 2 wineries
that had nice wines. We ate a late
picnic at the first one and enjoyed an Italian opera singer. They were using a special tasting glass (“made
especially for us in Italy”) that was interesting. We'll let Glenn do the full review on it when we return. (We bought 2 just for grins!) All together we bought 3 bottles of wine so
you can tell we thought it was good, but we weren’t blown away.
Monday morning we left the lake and drove over to Silver
Strand Beach State Park. It is on a
narrow strip of land between San Diego and Coronado Island. It is Spring Break and there are several RV’s
with families here. Just about the first
children we have seen. We have a beach
front site and plan to stay here until Friday morning. I can’t wait to see the sunset on the ocean
and we may see some more whales as they have to pass by here on their way up
the coast.
We have been following on Facebook and in the news and paper
the election back home. We are proud of
the way our Bishop and former pastors “demonstrated” at Lenoir Rhyne during
Trump’s visit. We are really glad though
that we are HERE and not there. We have
no doubt our phone has rang off the hook and we truly have not seen any
political ads on the few occasions we have had TV. This is a definite benefit of this trip we
had not counted on!!!
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| Pastor Dick and Martin Luther at the Trump Rally - I'm sure Martin would approve Dick!! |
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