Category: recreational fun & games
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Life, etc.
Wow, I haven’t posted in a while. Happily it’s because we’ve been busy doing fun stuff in between work stuff. We spent a great long weekend in Ventura/Oxnard last weekend at a beach house. We spent one day hiking on Santa Cruz Island. What an amazing and beautiful place – we’d never been to the…
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Adventures in the not-so wild west
We’re just home from a week in Colorado visiting family and doing a bit of sightseeing. Chuck’s niece Katie had been visiting us in California for a few weeks with a friend, so we all flew back to Colorado together and Katie’s mom (and Chuck’s sister) Angie met us at the airport. We then rented…
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The Civil War comes to Long Beach
We had a great time yesterday at the second annual Long Beach Civil War Reenactment this weekend. It was absolutely fascinating. I’m something of a Civil War buff, but we went with some friends and some kids, and everybody enjoyed it. After the battle, we heard a Lincoln look-alike deliver the Gettysburg Address and the…
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El Prieto redux
I just finished uploading some awesome new photos taken by our friend Gerry on Saturday at this year’s El Prieto Handicap race. He caught some great action shots of people running, and he was positioned at a point early enough in the race (at the bottom of the El Prieto Trail) that people still look…
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Celebrating
This weekend marked the 16th annual El Prieto Handicap – Chuck’s annual race. It’s a very neat event, held in the San Gabriel Mountains in an area called Oak Grove Park. Two miles of the race is on a single track trail called El Prieto (hence the race name), and every year the direction alternates:…
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Happy birthday, you old fart!
Chuck had a fabulous, action-packed 62nd birthday weekend. We drove up to Solvang on Friday and spent Friday night, Saturday, and Saturday night at the Hadsten House (now our favorite place to stay in Solvang) enjoying nice dinners, massages, a lovely yummy chocolate cake, and even some wine tasting with our friend (and fellow birthday…
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