We left the park last Monday and are now at Wilderness Lakes, which is near Hemet, in Riverside County. We'll be here another two weeks, and we already have plans to visit friends who are in the area. Tomorrow, we'll be headed to Jojoba Hills, which is an Escapee park, east of Temecula. A good Boomer friend, Betty, is staying there a few days, plus we want to visit other Boomers who are still at the park.

On Friday, we decided to visit a local cheese factory, but, I think we left too late to actually see them making it. I think they do that early in the morning. We did watch a short little film about the making of the cheese, though and then had some samples of the cheese, which was brie.

After leaving there, we drove over to Diamond Lake, which is the largest reservoir in southern California. It's been curious that most of the reservoirs down here in the south are off limits to swimming, yet, in the central and northern part of the state, it is allowed. Diamond Lake is huge, we drove up to the viewpoint at the western end of the lake. This lake has three earthen dams holding all that water in. You can rent fishing, bass and pontoon boats by the hour, half day or full day and on Wednesday, everything is half off. For this weekday, there were quite a number of boats on the water fishing by one of the dams. This water is shared by the residents in the Los Angeles basin and that of San Diego, also.