California travels

Thursday, April 20 we continued down California to Santa Barbara. Along the way we took a side trip to Solvang. It is a small village in the foothills of the California coast. The village is very cute as it is all Scandinavian. There are many little shops with Danish and Norwegian wares. We found it all particularly interesting as both Ed and I have Norwegian roots. We had lunch there and spent quite a while looking around. Finally got to Everett’s and spent the weekend with him. We took a nice long walk on the beach and around the university campus. Went out for dinner a couple of times with Everett and Katy and then with Sean (Ed’s nephew) and his girlfriend. Nice to visit with family we rarely see.                               Monday, April 25 – Today we travelled across Los Angeles and through Palm Springs to Indio. It is soooo windy here. The highways are lined with windmills for electricity and I can see why. It is also quite hot and dry.  The motorhome is rocking and rolling and wind is whistling through. It is nice and cozy inside though (with air conditioning going) so we will be just fine. Looking forward to moving on tomorrow though and hope the wind will settle down