Special treat

 Since we were only 3 hours from San Diego, we decided to pay a visit to the Silver Strand State Beach campground we have stayed at many times. But we were stunned when we arrived on Sunday

afternoon. Despite the warning signs everywhere about masks and social distancing, the beach was shoulder to shoulder to the point where we probably couldn’t have found even a spot on the sand to sit.

Although both Nick and Valerie are both working full time during the week, we planned to hook up Sunday night. We were excited about sitting by the campfire, but learned that wasn’t going to happen. The State would not allow visitors into the campground. Luckily, we were able to walk into the beachside parking area and find a picnic table where we had enough room to set up our Corn Hole game before we had a nice turkey chili dinner.

Kona hadn’t seen anyone in 3 months, so he was completely beside

himself snuggling with Nick and Val. We did make one exception to our strict self-enforced social distancing and played a game of Wizard. The Woman was the big winner. After the game, everyone got a good squirt of hand sanitizer. Hopefully that was enough diligence.

Dang those Mexicans! Not even Trump’s wall can keep their illegals from crossing the border and adversely effecting our economy. We learned that polluted waters flowing into the Pacific from the Tajuana River at times flow North and end up closing beaches as far as Coronado due to the high levels of contaminants. However, I was even more disappointed to find that we can’t even get “Beach Closed” signs that are printed in English. Sheesh!

Our drive back was pretty uneventful. We got on the road early enough on

Friday to miss the throngs of Californian’s heading to Vegas for the weekend. As we pondered the pandemic and how it influenced our visit with our son, I spotted this sign on Interstate 15. For obvious reasons, we chose not to take one of the next 6 exits.

The news was saying that there were some 367 wildfires burning in California right now. We heard many different numbers, but that is the one we heard being reported many times, so we’re sticking with that one. The smoke in the air was making the Woman cough a whole bunch. But we did have to admit that it made for some pretty sunrises.

We hope to be talking to you soon.