Update

Regular readers of this blog (if any) may be wondering where I am and what I am doing. I am in Newport Beach, California, in our new summer house here.  We have been busy, the past few weeks, with designers, gardeners, painters, carpet people, plumbers, etc.  There is still work to do, but the house…

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VA to CA, day six

At around ten this morning the phone rang, and our realtor asked if we were in California.  “No,” said Lydia, looking at the desert all around us, “not yet.”  “But we are in California,” I insisted, “we crossed an hour ago.” The reason Lydia did not think we were in California was that the first…

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VA to CA, day five

We were on the road early, about 7:30, and drove through miles of empty New Mexico.  Not quite empty:  there were a number of Indian reservations and Indian casinos.  We reached Albequerque about 10:30, parked near the central square, and Lydia poked around the shops while Sunny and I read the newspaper. It was too…

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VA to CA, day four

We have reached the West. We started the day in western Arkansas, and by eight we were in Oklahoma.  i was somewhat surprised that we did not see more oil wells, although we did see piping that could be for oil, could be for natural gas.  We did see a number of Indian casinos, along…

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VA to CA, day two

Today was our first real day of travel, a full day on the road. The dog and I started the day with a short run in Lexington, Virginia.  It is always hard to take a good run from a highway motel:  you are a long way from the nice roads; you are in the midst…

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VA to CA, day one

As I mentioned in an earlier post, we are selling our house in Virginia, buying one in southern California.  Today was our last day in the Virginia house:  a sad day, because selling a house is not quite like selling or giving away a bit of furniture.  A house is in a sense just a…

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