By Dale Edwards

August 1, 2011

The weather was again beautiful for our Nomad campout at Pinezanita near Julian and nine rigs thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. Friday night the wagon-masters, Bob and Donna Lash, provided a wonderful lasagna dinner, complete with salad, rolls, and ice cream for everyone to enjoy. Afterwards most went out to view the full moon in the clear night air, but couldn’t stay awake long enough to actually see it.

On Saturday morning, we hooked up several extension cords to fry pans and grills around the wagon master’s rig and cooked up a great breakfast of scrambled eggs, French toast, and sausage to get the day started. After breakfast several couples went into town to sightsee and ultimately wound up going over and riding the funky little tourist mine train along with a huge group of motorcyclists that were visiting town. The train was so full that none of us got to sit together, and President Bob Martin and Sheriff Hank Fuquay seemed more interested in eyeballing the many classic Harleys in the parking lot than riding the mine train. The wives made it clear that the days of those kinds of toys are long past.

After the train ride, Susan Martin talked everyone into walking to a particular restaurant back in town that she had heard recommendations for. But when we got there Susan spent the time wandering around a gift shop next door and skipped lunch. Anyhow, she missed out as the lunch was very good, especially the apple pie. A final project for the weekend was for Bob Martin to go into town and buy some gunk that he and Hank used to stop a small oil leak on his motorhome that was discovered after he got to the campout. Apparently the temporary fix was successful as we understand that Bob made it home OK, but he isn’t looking forward to the bill from the professional repair shop.

In August we will be enjoying a new venue in San Diego County on the shores of Lake Santee, and in September we take our annual jaunt up to Flying Flags in Buellton followed by a return to Valencia Travel Village in October. So if you have access to an RV of any sort, you should plan to join us on one of these weekend adventures. Just call our President, Bob Martin, at (714) 964-8503 for more information. Or join us at one of our 2^nd Tuesday monthly dinner meetings after calling VP Ron Kay at (562) 425-3759 for reservations.