Woke this morning to the bluest sky I have ever seen! Invigorating!
We spent the morning unpacking, satisfied we’d correctly estimated the kind of clothes necessary for a week in the Coachella Valley.
Planned our menus while watching the ducks, geese, hummingbird and golfers busy outside our patio door.
Shopped after getting turned around a couple of times; the parking lots here and very twisty in the shopping areas. Felt weird when Barbara was directed to onto the Freeway for a few miles…no where near as congested as it is portrayed in movies, but we are in the desert.
Barbara had a learning curse with the Mitsubishi Outlander rental car - she had to cut off the engine to get the car to sift into park and the steering wheel vibrated when another car moved past us too closely. 2022 technology! The automobile ti very comfortable and holds a lot!
Somehow the day got away from us, typical for us when we vacation.
We dined with Rob and Craig, two friends from my Cunard cruising days. I never lost touch with these guys, but I didn’t realize it had been seven years since I’d actually hugged them! FaceTime just doesn’t come close. Our reunion was so enthusiastic and vibrant that it never occurred to me to take a picture. Sigh. Barbara meshed completely and the guys asked us back for Rob’s homemade pizza on Thursday afternoon.
This experience reinforced my awe of those brief-moment-in-time connections (I spent a few days aboard ship with these two back in 2016) that can offer relationships which ignore distances in time or space to the extent that it seems we only saw each other a few days ago!
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