Metrolink – Acton To Los Angeles, California

The motorhome is parked at Thousand Trails Soledad Canyon RV Resort in Acton, California

Mary continues to be occupied with personal business. I am now not expecting to see her again until I arrive at her home in Murphys, California about the third week in April. It’s just the way things are and we just have to deal with it.

I’m now in what I’m calling my “pacing mode”. Last October I had cataract surgery at the VA Hospital in Palo Alto, California. My surgeon wants me back in mid-April for a six-month post-operative eye examination. Palo Alto is only about 400 miles from my current location. So, in the meantime, I’ll “pace” my forward direction travels hoping stay in 65-75 degree temperatures all the while.

Last Saturday I did something that I have not done in about 40 years. I went to downtown Los Angeles. I went to visit the area called El Pueblo de Los Angeles. This is near the site of early Los Angeles where 44 settlers of Native American, African and European heritage journeyed more than 1,000 miles across the desert from present-day northwest Mexico and established a farming community in September, 1781. I had not been to this area of Los Angeles before.

Today…Metrolink – Acton to Los Angeles, California…

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

The Acton Station. On a Saturday morning there were only a few cars in the parking lot…

You buy your ticket from these machines. On the weekend only $10 round-trip for 55 miles one way and a 1 hour and 40 minute train ride. Such a deal…

The partially enclosed station blocks the cold north and westerly winds…

Looking northeasterly. The train will come from this direction…

Looking southeast…

Looking southwest. Los Angeles is 55 miles down the tracks…

A MetroLink sign…

I took the 9:16 AM train and rode on the upper level for better views of the passing scenery…

Along the way the train slows through the curves…

Approaching Los Angeles we pass the maintenance yards…

Almost there…

We arrive safely. Because of my RVing lifestyle…I’m no longer use to be around so many people…

During the trip I reflected on the occasional train wreck heard in the news. It makes me think that when someone else is driving…you are in their control. That thought has me flashing back to our terrible accident of May 27, 2012 when some one else was driving…http://wp.me/pDCku-4Eh

No matter how hard one tries…those moments are forever burned into memory.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE PHOTOS.

In other news..

It appears the weatherman is shifting to a lower gear. For the last six+ weeks the weather in the southwest has run 5-20 degrees above normal average with some calling it the warmest winter on record. Yesterday and today are about 10 degrees below normal. The forecast for the next six weeks or so is calling for 5-10 below normal. Hmmm…I guess that why it’s called an average. It sure was nice while it lasted.

Yesterday was a cloudy with showers and 49 degrees. Forecast for today is mostly cloudy with showers and 52 degrees.

The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of California. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…

Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein

On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!

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