Palm Springs, CA - Spendin' and Mendin'

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: every grocery store is a new adventure. As we travel, we sometimes have a hard time buying the things we like the best. I haven’t been able to find Honey Nut Shredded Wheat for Gary to mix with his Wheat ’n’ Bran Shredded Wheat to make a sweet healthy cereal for breakfast nor decaf Hazelnut coffee for me. No one in San Diego likes them, we guess. Gary’s been putting some honey on his Wheat ’n’ Bran Shredded Wheat as Plan B. I’ve been putting some flavoring in my regular decaf coffee. And, Spice Drops. Forget it. Every company has its own brand: CVS spice drops, Good Life spice drops (don’t ask what company this), Walgreens spice drops. These were not good but then we got some from Vons in San Diego that were nasty. How low can we go?

Today we went shopping here in Palm Springs and bought all these things;

        3 boxes of Honey Nut Shredded Wheat,

        4 boxes of decaf Hazelnut coffee,

        3 bags of Brachs spice drops (the best),

        then for extras we bought some pineapple cottage cheese (my favorite but the only place I’ve ever found this is Hoods in New England) and then we got some Walden Farms no-cal Raspberry Vinaigrette salad dressing.

Our next major stop is a small town on the north side of the San Bernadino Mts. followed by San Francisco for a month. I’m not expecting great grocery shopping in either. Funny thing, there are very few grocery stores in San Francisco - most shopping is done is small corner grocery stores. We’ll stock up here in Palm Springs.

Other than musing about shopping, I got to spend and Gary got to mend today.

I’m finishing up reserving campsites in Alaska and for good measure I made two reservations for our Arctic Ocean - Prudhoe Bay adventure and our reservations for a 1-day trip through Denali NP. Boy, did I spend gobs of money today. Whoo-eee. Macaroni for dinner for the next month.

Gary worked on the RV with some maintenance. He’s got a small leak in two of his basement storage compartments - right in front of the rear tires. When we travel in rain, the compartments get wet - he thinks that the tires are spraying water through a tiny leak in the walls of the compartment. He’d caulk them but can’t even get his hand in close to caulk the spot because there’s a piece of metal in the way. And, he sure doesn’t want to take the tires off their axles to get into the area. Ah - how about drilling close holes in that piece of metal and saw it away. He did, and now can get the caulk in.

Lots of fun here. I spend and he mends.

‘Many hands make light work but too many cooks spoil the broth.’ Huh?