One Tank to the fleas?

 

Our friends in San Diego can rarely attend One Tank.

We took One Tank to them!

I prepared a batch of my step grandma’s peanut brittle to take with us. To hear my grandma tell it, her ancestors were using THIS recipe as they trudged westward. This batch was set in the back of my car to cool along the way. So, I guess we carried on the tradition southward.

I shall post the recipe in another post.

The drive from Los Angeles to San Diego is not a hop, skip and a jump. We had to stop along way to stretch our legs. We ran along the view point with the birds.

In hindsight, this stop at the view point was not the best of ideas. In Italy—I hear—it is considered lucky to have a bird droppings hit you. If that is the case, then I should be hitting the lotto very soon…

As a kid we’d drive to Camp Pendleton on a regular basis. We’d pass the “Las Pulgas” exit and would think, “How terrible could that place be to call it ‘the fleas’?” Thank you to the Camp Pendleton history on the  Sacramento Marines site. I discovered that during the survey for San Luis Rey Mission the soldiers protecting the survey party were plagued with fleas. The insistence of the fleas overcame the beauty of the area. I knew it! How nasty could that have been?

 

We settled at our friend’s house for a lovely lunch of roasted vegetable soup and conversation among “Nightmare Before Christmas“ decorations and no fleas…..

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References

http://www.sacramentomarines.com/knowledge_base/camp-pendleton-histor/

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99spring/outposts.htm

http://www.sanluisrey.org/Museum/History

So Many Tamales so little time…..

 

We braved the traffic and the crowds to make it to the 18th annual Tamale Festival in downtown Placentia.

Wednesday evening, we mingled among the crowd of hungry patrons. We were too busy eating our way across the festival to take too many photos. I posted what we have below.

Hosted by Placita Santa Fe's Downtown Merchant's Association, the annual Tamale Festival included food,  Santa Claus, craft booth and entertainment. The Mariachi Divas were as brilliant as usual. We missed the traditional Las Posadas re-enactment of Joseph and Mary's search for lodging.

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Ten Little Monkeys

 

Did you ever sing the “Ten Little Monkeys” song? If you have not, here are the lyrics to the version I learned:

 

“Ten little monkeys jumping on the bed.

One fell off and bumped his head.

Mama called the doctor said

No, more monkeys jumping on the bed.

Nine little monkeys jumping on the bed.

One fell off and bumped his head.

Mama called the doctor said

No, more monkeys jumping on the bed.”

The song continues in descending order until there are no monkey’s left.

One of our latest trips out was kinda like Ten Little Monkeys. See the screen shot of the GPS ? “No Route possible” for one of our first stops should have given us pause. But it didn’t. We forged on.

After dropping some items off at my mom’s house (despite help from the GPS) we headed out to Landers, California.

 

 

We were heading to the Integretron. what better One Tank than a building the was built on guidance from extra terrestrials? Integratron information is here.

We started in several cars from several locations with the expectation of meeting at the Integraton to try out a healing session.

At first there was ten.

One was called into work.

Then there was nine.

One took ill.

Then there was eight.

One crashed their car.

Then there was six.

Two were in the same car that broke down.

Then there was four.

One ran to help the two in the car and broke her leg.

Then there was three.

We three went to lunch.

 

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