Last day for a hike in Acton and we’ve been looking at the hills in back of our RV park and wanting to climb them. Unfortunately, there are no specific trails for this, though there is a road going straight up one of the hills. So, here we are climbing a steep ATV path at a 30 degree angle at least. On rocks that slide backwards. I finally moved off the road about 3 feet and found better footing there. But, it’s still (huff puff) pretty steep (huff puff) and difficult going. The trail followed the ridgeline so, every time we reached the top of each smaller hill, there was another one in front of us.
Then the road ended but there was a faint trail that some hardy local souls had made so we followed that for a while. Until we had to clamber over rocks with bushes in our face. I called it quits and we headed down. But, not down the road way which I thought too steep. I looked the other way and found a softer less steep hill and we headed down that. At times I pretended I was on the bunny skiing slope and was doing my snowplow heading down the hill. At other times we made our own switchbacks. But it was loads easier than the headfirst roadway we had followed coming up.
Did we make it to the top? Heck, no. The trail was too narrow, scrambled over too many rocks, was brushy and just turning into less than a pleasant trip. Did we make it to the bottom? I sure hope so. But not after we had scrambled over some other smaller hills in the area. We had some great views down on the campground which was really the point of the hike. Oh, well, maybe the point of the hike was the hike with great views down onto the campground just an extra benefit. Does that make sense? And, if it does, you’re ahead of me.
We like to listen to the nightly national news but we find it at all different times depending upon which station we can get. We can only get ABC here in Acton and it has local news at: 5:00, 5:30 and 6:00. Finally, at 6:30 it has the national news with Diane Sawyer. 3 local news shows? In a row? Of course, that means that you get a real variety of local news.
One story we heard on the evening news today is that Walmart wants to put a Wally World in LA Chinatown. Chinatown? Huh? And even the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce wants it. I think that those merchants in Chinatown who support the Chamber are not getting their money’s worth.
And - there are only 7 Walmarts in LA. Imagine that.
A second thing that the local news highlighted was the reporter that they sent out to ski in the morning and surf in the afternoon to demonstrate the variety of activity available in the local area. Where else could you both ski and surf on the same day?
Of course, we could get satellite as many RV’ers have done. In fact, it’s quite common to see satellite dishes built in to the top of RV’s or set up in front of them. Since we listen to TV so seldom, we just use the antenna on our RV.
When Gary was younger and had been good and had gotten his homework all done, his parents would let him snack on breakfast cereal in the evenings. Well, now, he’s come full circle. He’s sitting across form me snacking on cold cereal. Of course, I’m doing the same thing. Does that mean that we have finally crossed the magical imaginary, all-in-the-mind, line into ‘old’?
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