The World Traveller

Since I have a lot of time on my hands these days I have been taking advantage of our beautiful weather and hiking 6.8 miles daily at Torrey Pines State Reserve. Soon, I will have to start traveling to the high deserts and out northeast to the Inland Empire and Palm Springs areas for warmer weather. Joshua Tree, San Rosa Plateau and Anza Borrego Desert – here I come!

Another new hobby my sister Liz and I recently picked up is Geocaching. It is a great activity for anyone. Once you find your 1st cache with your GPS – you are hooked! Log on to geocaching.com to get started with a free account. Our moniker is “Kern Sisters”. Go check out our stats. After you’ve tracked down a couple of caches, I can guarantee you will soon be picking up travel bugs and hiding your own cache for others to track down. I found 3 locally here in Torrey Pines State Park! Liz is taking Mr. Hoppity, a travel bug that we took from a cache up in LA, and taking him with her to Hawaii next week to place him in a cache there. A cache we found in Brawley, CA was a cache that my childhood friend Kathy Glenn and her husband Reggie had hidden. I have not seen nor heard from them for years until I logged in my find on the geocaching website. What a great way to reconnect! Geocaching will take you places you have never been, no matter how well you think you know an area. Caches have been hidden absolutely everywhere – all over the world. So much fun and a great way to spend time with family and friends. Go and try it!

Plenty of Vitamin D out here!

Yesterday drove out to Kenner Ranch located 4 miles south of Julian with Rhana for a horseback ride with Kathleen and Diane.  After loading up the horses into their trailer we headed out into the Cleveland National Forest.  It was a great opportunity to get some fresh air and vitamin D.  As you can tell by this photo, we are all duded up with our cowboy hats and Ariat riding boots.  As Woody Allen said 80 percent of success is showing up.  Rhana and I agree, but would like to add that the remaining 20% of success is dressing the part!.  Up for a ride and live in San Diego County?  Visit (http://www.kennerhorseranch.com) and book a ride up in our local mountains.