4 miles.......

 7:58 am - Friday - November 5th - Fontana, CA - 59° F, 51% humidity, wind 3 mph out of the north by northeast.....clear, blue skies today with a forecast high of 86° F. On this date in 2017 we were at the Page, AZ Elks Lodge....what a view.....↴

We're back into a kind of warming spell which is projected to last through Saturday.  Of course, 'warming spell' is kind of relative.  For the past year we've been used to temps in the 50's and 60's, and now were getting into the 80's on a regular basis interspersed with a few days of temps in the 70's here and there.  When we were in Oregon we waited until the afternoon most days to take hikes, but here we get out pretty early to beat the 'heat'.  We got out so early Thursday that I didn't write my blog post until well into the afternoon. On Thursday we walked the PET* just over 2 miles out, and then the same back for a total out and back mileage of 4.09 miles.....

....all the while incinerating some 734 caloric units, and averaging 3.2 mph.....our longest walk since returnig to SoCal......

.....our turn around point was the old Fontana Citrus Association warehouse.....

Facing east as we begin the 2+ miles back to our home

......after arriving back home we sat outside on the 'lido deck' for about 20 minutes to cool down before I began the necessary task of pumping via macerator pump 9 days of accumulated effluent to the dump station sewer connection.  Dumping our tanks via the macerator pump is a time consuming project....not nearly as easy as dumping straight into a sewer connection, but certainly less complex than disconnecting the Newell from our electrical/water connections, and the trailer to drive 100' over to the dump station, and then reversing the process......considering the alternative dumping via macerator is a nice middle option.

By the time I finished TLE had kindly turned on our bedroom A/C unit to aid me in cooling down a second time.  It feels much hotter than it really is because we are parked in the middle of a giant asphalt parking lot....the black asphalt really soaks up, and holds the heat!  We spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying the cool interior of our Newell Classic Coach.

Thanks for stopping by!

*PET = Pacific Electric Trail

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