Recently we have been getting up earlier (for us), awakened by my cell phone’s alarm with a truly obnoxious rooster crowing noise that makes me almost jump up and salute. It works well. Today, here in attraction-free Menifee, CA, we used our early morning hours to pop down to Les Schwab so we could give them 1.4 kilobucks for brand new truck tires and wheel alignment before we get very far into the boonies. We also made it to a small watch repair shop in an extraordinarily large shopping mall. The shopping mall even had a little locomotive operated by a tubby guy in yellow overalls. It was pulling a few small wooden cars filled with kids doing all kinds of kid stuff while riding. After 30 minutes, the watch repair guy handed me back my formerly cheap Casio watch with new parts and pins and stuff.

After much confusion over how to get around in Temecula, we elected to drive to Costco where we got cheap diesel and Irish Cream coffee additive. Peggy was able to get all the way across Costco twice, check out and exit the store before I could finish with filling the fuel tank, partly due to the Temecula locals who see nothing wrong with clogging all roads in all directions while auto-stalking shoppers making their way back to their suburbanite SUVs. Gridlock reigned in the parking lot.

We decided we had already had as much fun as we could stand so we took our loot back to Wilderness Lakes where we set in for some extended malingering. There is also a little train here that chugs around between expensive RVs. It is half again as big as the train in the shopping center so the train cars are larger requiring adults to ride as well as kids. The park also has great birds hanging out near the green water ditches. Canadian geese, some big swans, ducks and night herons can be spotted scooting about between the RVs scavenging bread crumbs from the whole crowd.