October 8th. Ramona and Lake Jennings

We took a drive up to Ramona to visit the cemetery.  We stopped for tacos at one of our favorite places and checked out a craft brew place on the way.  We cleaned off the gravestones and cleaned up the dead leaves on the plants.  Then we just sat for a bit.

On our way down, we went over to Lake Jennings.  I had never been there and we had questions about how it might be a place for a camper stay on one of our trips to San Diego.  Lake Jennings is made from a dam constructed for water conservation.  It was pretty. The roads leading to it are steep and twisty.  It looked like a good place to go if you have a car and tents and just wanted a weekend of fishing.  There were some larger campers there, but we couldn't imagine wanting to haul ours up there and fight the road out every day when she went to work.  But we had wondered about it and had to check as long as we were in the area. 

Stopped in to Finest Made Ales.  It used to be Butcher's Brewing but they went for a change.  I thought the selection they had before was better. 

We got home and enjoyed yet another sunset.

The only craft brew in Ramona

Lake Jennings

Finest Made

January 13th - A trip to Ramona.

Since Laurie's Mom used to live in Ramona, we have ties to that mountain community. There is a cemetery there where our son and Laurie's dad are.  I'll write more about this later as it demands reverent attention.

We stopped at a Mexican restaurant that we love to visit when we're up there.  We had our first disappointing meal this trip.  Too bad, usually it's great there.  After visiting Nuevo Gardens, we thought to do a couple of local geocaches in the area.  One was called "Laura Engall's SUV".  When we went to the general location, it was suddenly obvious what they were talking about. The bones of an old dilapidated wagon. The cache was a large gallon sized plastic bottle.  We deposited one of the travelbugs we've been carrying there.  There were a few other in the area, but the one that caught our interest was at the local fire station where the firefighters are apparently in on the whole thing.  After a conserable search of there front grounds, we found the bugger.  Satisfied, we started the long trek south down highway 67 towards Lakeside and Santee.

Ramona

Laura Engall's SUV

Fire station in Ramona