Another Spectacular Sunset in Temecula, CA

After a great sport bike riding day to Ocotillo Wells and home via Julian, we saw a most beautiful sunset with a full moon on our way to Anytime Fitness' XMAS dinner last night.  This morning's sunrise was special too.

Another Spectacular Sunrise in Sage, CA

Today we plan to ride to the desert and home through Julian.  And, we hope to get to see some of our house's wood floor that is supposed to be installed today.

Dramatic Sky

Southern CA is getting its rare, needed rain.  Here's a shot from our driveway facing toward Mt. Palomar.

Sport Bikes

We are having perfect riding weather.  Yesterday we rode to Oak Glen, CA, the local apple country, and home through Hemet.

Stucco

Our Hemet House stucco turned out great.

Hemet House

Construction on our home in CA's Temecula Valley is slow.  Now the hold-up is getting the engineer's plan for the carport/breezeway that will attach the RV garage to the house.  The stucco base coat is on the house but no color yet.  We've been enjoying the perfect biking weather.  Yesterday we rode our sport bikes to Borrego Springs and we rode our dual sports on the local dirt trails two days before.

San Clemente, CA

Yesterday, in search of Richard Nixon's ghost, we rode The Ortega to San Clemente with Rose and Bob Press.  Rose is riding her new Ninja; like Jim's but white in color.  Being Sunday, we saw lots of other bikes on The Ortega and around Perris.  So far, San Clemente is one of our favorite beach spots between LA and San Diego.

Cardiff By The Sea

We've been really enjoying touring southern California on our new sport bikes.  Here's a picture from a ride we took with our soon-to-be neighbors Rose and Bob Press who, like us, ride a Honda and Kawasaki.

Bikes

We got sport bikes yesterday.  Jim got a Ninja and Joellen got a Repsol.  We can't wait to start touring southern CA starting with the beach, Idyllwild and Mt. Palomar.  We will still ride dirt bikes and look forward to switching between the two riding styles.

Vail Lake Temecula, CA

Yesterday we rode our dirt bikes and found some new trails off of our street that provide great views of Vail Lake.

Hemet House

We've got a strong well and the grading is complete on our property in Hemet, CA.  Now all we need is a house; hope its done by October '13 at this point.

More Balloons, Oscar the Park Cat of Tucalota RV Park in Sage, CA

Every day, anymore, is a hot air balloon festival in Temecula, CA.  This morning we had 12 balloons; one landed a couple hundred feet from our motorhome.  Earlier this week, a balloon landed on our homesite, about one mile from the RV park.

Oscar the RV park cat spends much time at our RV tormenting Carl our cat.

Temecula, CA Balloon and Wine Festival

Today is the first day of this year's annual 3-day balloon and wine festival in Temecula.   The pictured balloon landed a few feet from our motorhome around 8 am this morning.

Malibu, CA

Yesterday we drove to Malibu's Paradise Cove where The Rockford Files' Jim Rockford (James Garner) lived on the beach in a trailer.  Other shows such as Gidget and Sea Hunt were filmed there as well.  It was gorgeous.  Traffic in was OK but big delays going back to Sage, CA.

 

Amgen Tour of California Bike Race

Today is the second leg of the AMGEN Tour of California Bike Race. They came past the entrance to our RV Park. A number of the riders have ridden in the Tour De France. There was a 4 bike break away that was about 9 minutes ahead of the main pack after an hour of racing. The weather is hotter than normal highs expected to be 105degrees. Here's the address to the race http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/#2

Temecula, CA Hot Air Balloons

This morning a hot air balloon landed in our RV park.  We are building a winter home on the pictured 4.61 acres in Hemet; hope the house is built by June 2013.  Our neighbors tell us that the Temecula hot air balloons take off every morning; we are looking forward to watching that from our front porch that Jim will screen-in for Carl our cat.

Temecula, CA

Yesterday we rode the high hills of Temecula and Aguanga.  The temperature was in the 80s.  Spring is here.  The roads were a little sandy but not a problem.  The views were gorgeous; the riding fun.

Sage, CA

We've been riding the many dirt roads around Sage, Hemet and Temecula, CA enjoying the fantastic views.  Jim has started working out with Joellen at Anytime Fitness; all is good.

Sage, CA

We continue to explore the many dirt roads around Sage, CA.  The weather finally changed; temperatures have been in the 70s the last few days and we've been riding our dirt bikes almost daily.  Tomorrow we will return to Minto Way/Oak Lane, an area of giant boulders looking down on Diamond Lake.

Sage, CA

A couple days ago we found a fantastic dirt road (Stanley Road) that goes on and on crossing various mountain ranges through huge ranches from Sage, CA over to Idyllwild mountain (we think).  After riding for what felt like a long time (it was cold - turned out it was just a two hour ride in total), today we will go back.  Its about 32 degrees at 7 am at our current elevation.  The ride ascends through lots of elevation changes meaning it gets colder every foot we ascend.  We will wait until about 1 pm today for warmer temperatures to start riding.

We have pictures but blogger is not giving us the opportunity to upload from our computer today.

Our Forest River RV continues to have issues.  Right now Jim is dealing with a second broken refrigerator solenoid (so no ice from the ice maker) and a broken leveler (so we can't completely level the RV).  Its always something.