It's been a while since I blogged. So here is an update.
WE are on the road again our RV in southern California. Still searching for sun and heat that lasts more than an afternoon. WE wended down through Idaho, visited capital Boise for the first time, through Nevada, into California, around scenic Lake Tahoe (not visited for about 20 years) and into S. California. WE are half way between LA and San Francisco, a notable wine area. Down through the central valley, a vast agricultural area, is flat and dry, but everywhere irrigation hits, crops and fruits grow. Important for peaches, apricots, nuts and also ground crops like strawberries, replaced the wheat and potatoes of S.Idaho.
Staying at RV parks, we notice a lot of people living here now, going to work, kids going to school, obviously they don't have homes any more. In S.Idaho the rate for people who have lost their homes is 10%, a huge number. I don't think Us citizens recognize a way of life has gone for many of them and is not coming back, certainly while unemployment is so high, also 10% in places.
But there are a lot of retired folks on the move, in fancy big million-dollar motor homes, pulling Cadillacs behind them. One place quoted us $47 for the night for a parking spot. Mostly they are around $30 with very good facilities, power, TV and wifi.
Meantime, since I blogged in May, I went in August for more follow-up surgery from my reconstruction. I now have a cute nipple and it will be tattooed in December to look like one. Very simple and painless procedure.
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