On Boxing Day, instead of shopping, we attended a fish fry. A friend of ours was a commercial fisherman from Washington state. Since he is still recovering from a recent stroke, his son (also a commercial fisherman) had a fish fry - yum, what a feast. We had shrimp, cod, tuna, salmon prepared in various ways. The black cod tips were, by far, my favourite. On the way home we stopped at a grocery store, and at home, we almost had a disaster. When we opened the back door of the Jeep, my bottle of coffee liquer fell out onto a concrete driveway. With lightning speed, we picked up the bottle and fortunately, only the top broke off so a simple filtering job saved the liquid.
On Wednesday, we left Yuma and went to Borrego Springs, CA. There was a 4x4 rally in progress so we quickly joined in on several back-country trips. And the temperatures are finally warm - this is what we have been waiting for.
On one trip, we visited a cemetary that was next to a regional park. In the park is an old stagecoach stop on the Butterfield trail. In the picture you will see a gravesite - on it is a white veil. The story goes that a lady who was on the stagecoach became very ill, so was left at the stop, and subsequently died. When they opened her trunk they found a wedding dress and a veil. She was dressed in her wedding dress to be buried but her veil was put on top the gravesite. In all the years, the veil has remained on the grave in various locations, has never yellowed nor deteriorated.
Today we went, and came back, across country to the town of Julian, a historic gold mining town. There are numerous little shops, and restaurants - the town being famous for apple pie. We did see someone leading a llama into town - a most unusual sight I thought.
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