Mentryville: hiking in the rain

Before driving home from our motel in Santa Clarita, we decided to take a little hike (and find some geocaches), even though it was lightly raining. Since checkout time wasn’t until 12 noon, we could hike, but still shower and change into dry clothes. We started our hike at the end of the public road […]

Geocaching on a quick trip to Riverside

I took advantage of a trip to a birthday party in Riverside to pick up three fizzy square type geocaches (the kind where to qualify you must have filled the 81 squares of the Difficulty/Terrain rating matrix). Two of them were in Riverside along the Santa Ana hiking/biking trail and one was near Sedco Hills […]

Eileen’s birthday

We visit with the family in southern California too rarely, so when we got an invitation to Eileen’s birthday party in Riverside we decided to make a quick trip—down and back in a long weekend. We had a good time, and Karen enjoyed time with her brothers and cousin and nephews and nieces.

The […]