Santa Barbara to Menifee

We made it to Rancho Oso, a Thousand Trails campground in the mountains east of Santa Barbara. We spent Wednesday night and Thursday night there. The campground is set up and members who have horses they can bring them to ride in the hills or you can rent horses for trail rides with the wranglers hired by the campground. Max and I stumbled on the turkeys when we went for our early morning walk on Thursday and again this morning.

Ted and I decided to try lunch at the Paradise Store & Grill. A lot of locals hang out there and they are very interesting characters! The dogs are welcome and everybody just hangs out. We've noticed it's always crowded and we always thought that it was because it has a bar, they do sell beer and wine but there isn't a bar. You eat out on the porch and while we were eating our sandwich a "cowboy" with long grey hair comes up and starts getting ready to play music. What I didn't expect was that he would be play soft classical music and he was very good!

After lunch we went into Solvang and looked around, fueled up and stopped at the Chumash (pronounced shoemash) Casino. Ted and I were both lucky, doubled our money and enjoyed ourselves!

This morning we left Santa Barbara and are now in Menifee, California. We are east of Murietta and northeast of Hemet. We are in a Thousand Trails campground called Wilderness Lakes. We have great cell service, internet and satellite!

Great electronics..."Ain't Life Grand!"