As I sit by the open window of the coach I am overwhelmed by the scent of orange blossoms from our neighbor’s site. Several nights ago I stepped out to grill and immediately thought someone had sprayed orange blossom scent over the entire park. It is sweet and wonderful and just a bit overwhelming. It seems our life here can be like that.
Saturday night was Lasagna night with the Valley Winds performing. Dinner at 5 PM does take some getting used to. The meal was delicious and the Valley Winds are a 20+ group of Trombones, Saxophones and Trumpets playing Swing. That big band sound in our Friendship Hall was amazing. Here is the group with one couple out on the dance floor:
Not too much later the dance floor looked like this:
and realistically this is how it stayed most of the night. Of course we started with dinner at 5 PM and the dancing started at 6 and Carol and I had had enough by 8. Translate that to east coast time and it almost seems reasonable, somehow we settled in with our books and read after that.
We have been busy socially as well, visiting friends on their sites and having others drop by to visit with us. We are well settled in and now are preparing to leave on the 25th for two months of adventure. We will be out of the country until May 14, but our return to the US will be in Hawaii where we will stay until May 28. I think I have spent more time putting together the stops in Hawaii then planning the entire rest of our travel. For the curious, we will stay 4 nights in Oahu at the Hilton
Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort then on to Hawaii (Big Island) for 4 nights at Volcano Lodge in Volcano National Park and 3 nights at Hale Maluhia Country Inn in Kailua-Kona. On from there to Maui and an Airbnb room on the north coast for four nights returning to LAX late night on the 28th. The next morning we will pick up a rental car to return to Jojoba Hills and rest while we make plans for the next 30 days.
For our Rochester friends it looks like we will be get there about August 1 and leave again on the 25th. We will be back again on the 20th of September until ?? certainly gone before the first frost.