We finally got done selling Christmas trees and were able to leave the lot on Christmas Eve morning. We headed south and got as far as Buellton, following Hwy 101 south. We got there just as it was getting dark and had dinner at Anderson's Split Pea Soup restaurant. We also stayed overnight in their lot and no one bothered us.

The next morning, we were bound for Seal Beach to stay in the military campground on the base. We had plans to visit a good bus friend of ours, Marge Valles, whose husband had just died of cancer. We were looking forward to spending quality time with her. We ended up being invited to eat Christmas dinner with the whole family, which was really nice of them. We had all sorts of goodies and even got presents! Saturday & Sunday, none of the family members saw much of Marge because she was with us and we had a great time together, sightseeing around the area. Believe it or not, we only took one picture while we were visiting, and that was our site at the famcamp, but, we didn't take any others mostly because we didn't even think about it.

We finally started heading south again on Monday morning. We were headed to Yuma, AZ by way of El Cajon, where I was going to get my hair cut. So, at about 2:30 in the afternoon, we finally were headed to east. We were meeting other Boomer friends of ours at Lake Mittry to spend New Years Eve together.