Denise and Rick Cunningham

Like many boomers we're planning the "next chapter". We live a fairly chaotic life in Georgetown in Washington DC. I'm a former fashion executive and journalist. Rick's an engineer and computer scientist. We're about ready for a little change of pace. Travel... perhaps moving to warmer climes ...and definitely savoring more moments. We never set out to buy an RV...matter of fact, we had never even been in one and I definitely don't camp. But, now, with more time and a growing aversion to the insults of air travel, we bought a 40' motor coach. Our grandson, Ian, named it Gigantor. We call it Tor for short.

We're seeing things you just can't from the air and finding that we've so much to discover on this continent. In the past two years, we've taken three marvelous six-week trips. This time, we're "chasing the sun for as long as it fun". We left on October 5, 2009. We'll see how long we last!

We're searching for great places to stay, sights worth seeing, golf courses worth playing, great restaurants, shopping, farmer's markets. We're on the road in search of the high road.


Tuesday, March 16, 2010

I've Created a Monster!

March 13~16
Rick has flung himself headlong into golf!  He's out on this par 3 course all the time.  And it's paying off.  He was previously short-game challenged....now he's getting it.  He even signed up for the weekly scramble, had a great time and made quite a few of the points.

Took it out to a real course, Desert Willow (desertwillow.com) and it's still working....for him....for me, not so much.  My game is nothing short of horrid...have got to get some help.  Not much fun playing like this. Regardless of how  bad I played, I was bit disappointed in this course.  The facility is lovely...we had a lunch overlooking the course with friends when we were here in December.  However, the  Mountain View Course is visually appealling but pretty tame and rather uninteresting. Huge greens, super wide fairways and most holes are straight away.

What I did enjoy from this round was the flora and fauna....so different from the east coast. 


Guess I've never seen a jack rabbit before...they were amazing and the big ones rather intimidating.  There were literally hundreds and hundreds of them on the course.  The biggest one we saw, truly, no exaggeration, had to be two feet tall on all fours. Couldn't get to my camera quick enough for that one, but this is what the average sized ones looked like.




We've really enjoyed our time in the California desert.  The whole outdoor lifestyle is very appealing.  Went to some open houses just to get an idea of what you can get out here....compared to where we come from, there are amazing values here.  And they all have outside living areas like this!  Love it!







Leaving for Las Vegas in the morning. Must admit it's a double-edged sword.  We really like it here, but I think staying in one place for so long is probably not a good thing.....losing a bit of the wanderlust.

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