San Diego to Los Angeles

We are still in sunny California!! After we worked for the short 5 days in San Diego, we were moved north about 150 miles, 60 miles north west of Los Angeles. But, before we left the San Deigo area, we were able to visit Oceanside, California as well as the famous San Diego Zoo. The Zoo was the most fabulous zoo we have ever been to. It was a great Sunday outing for the both of us. Never have we seen such animals in their own habitat and frankly was difficult to find some of the them. Everything is so green here and everything is blooming, so the habitat was beautiful! Monkeys have always been my favorite thing to see and this zoo had the largest monkey exibit that we have seen. We spent much of our time in Monkey jungle just admiring these great creatures.

Oceanside was very cold and breezy. We spent about 1 hour there and really was not impresssed. The odor was very dirty and the water was not pretty. In the picture you can't really tell the difference between the sand and the water. We walked out on the pier to get some pictures and it was so cool, we didn't stay long. But, it was a day worth spending touring the great sunny California.

You know it is so much fun getting to do some of the tourists things when we are traveling around, but we both seem to enjoy our work experiences so much more. The things we happen upon are much more exciting and seeing how the people work and live is much more interesting. We have been many places and have visited many different farms and farming operations---and one thing is the same every where we go---farmers are just ordinary hard working American people. We find ourselves wanting to know more about their lives and what their individual techniques are and what is the most popular thing in the area that we are in.

We currently are staying in Oxnard, California which is in Ventura County. Yes, we are here for the avocado crop, but 1/2 of all our avocado farmers are Lemon farmers as well. This county is the largest lemon and strawberry growing county in the U.S. There are lemon and strawberries everywhere. Among strawberries, we have seen celery being grown and harvested as well. We actually are staying in a motel that is right in the heart of warehouses after warehouses that are packaging produce that we consume in Muleshoe. I find that so intersting and realize why our prices are the way they are.

We left an inspection that was located in Thousand Oaks, California, exiting on the highway right out of the farmers drive we notice a sign stating that we were only 1/2 mile from the entrance to the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum. We decided, what the heck, and lets go see what it is all about. We only got to stay for about an hour, due to having another appointment, but it was so educational and would love to have the time to go back and actually see Air Force One. This presidents library is the only library that has Air Force One on display.
But, we were so fortunate to visited at a time that the Williamsburg, Virginia, Red Coat, members where set up and giving life like examples of what it was like when the British were fighting. They had 20 different booths set up--showing how the British lived, ate, fought and even had a doctor that had numerous tools and knowledge to share with us. It was such a learning experience and again I have to say, wish I would have listened more in school!!

Curtis has much more history knowledge than I do and President Reagan just happens to be one of his favorite Presidents. When President Reagan past away--we were two people that watched the whole burial process on t.v.--so it was nice seeing exactly where he is buried.

Ok--going to do the Hollywood thing tomorrow will be posting more--

Until then...................