We arose early on Tuesday morning so we could walk into town for breakfast and a walk around the harbor. We knew there was an RV park in the area and we wanted to check it out to see if we’d ever like to stay there. We walked along the waterfront as the sun was coming up. Look closely, this is probably the only sunrise picture I’ll ever put in here. I’m more of a sunset kind of person and think that sunrises are highly overrated.
Breakfast was at the Omelet Inn and was very good. We shared an omelet as usual and had an extra order of toast. Homemade wheat toast and it was delicious.
We wandered around and finally found the RV park. Very nice, clean and we’ll definitely keep it in mind.
Long Beach used to have a large naval base and, when it was closed, they made it into a park with several restaurants, marinas, condos, etc. There was also a nice memorial to the Sullivan brothers who all died in WWII on the same ship. 3 died instantly on the ship, one died shortly afterwards and the fifth lasted a few days in a lifeboat before the tragedy of losing his 4 brothers got to him and he went overboard and was never seen again.
When their father was told that there had been an accident, he asked which son had died and the answer was ‘all of them.’ Close relatives are not put on the same ship in the Navy as a consequence.
However, we finally had to leave so we could get back to our RV in the dark. And, sure enough, we left at 5:00, just in time for a great Los Angeles tradition: drive time.
Actually the traffic moved very smoothly for the most part. We were pleasantly surprised. We did have one time when our GPS again told us that there was heavy traffic ahead but I looked at the map and realized that there were no other major highways coming in to ours with loads of traffic so we took a chance and ignored the GPS. Right decision and we kept sailing on home.
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