194 Tiny home guests

     Returning from a cruise out of Los Angeles Warren and Barb our neighbors from the prairie arrived before driving back to their winter home Apache Junction Arizona.  Brave souls they were about to share our 185 square foot tiny home.  
     Four people I think we were close to oxygen deprivation.   Truth to be told I think we could have got 4 more occupants in here.  Warren chose the train berth.  Barb chose the automatic queen bed lower, the upper berth remained empty.   Ruthie and I slept on the couch conversion.  We got this licked, "goodnight John boy".

Kind of like being at a camp with good friends we made the best of it.   In a desire to show them the best experience we tried to give our guests options as far as sightseeing and side trips based on our pre-ride.
     I don't know if we have discussed Ruthie and her obsession with the "copper kettle as seen on TV".  It is now a part of our cooking experience and friend Tom from the prairie delights in calling and although he doesn't talk to Ruthie he has me pass on information to her on the latest TV infomercial,  he loves teasing her. 
      A fun evening Ruthie made a delicious lemon chicken hot dish using her copper kettle the highlight of which was finding out where capers come from.   She did a remarkable job for the space. Later a card game ensued, we found out our good friend Warren is a complainer.  Every hand was worse than the previous. 

      The next morning I resisted temptation or more accurately Ruthie stopped me from grabbing Barbs exposed toes sticking out of the covers above us.  I still think it would have been a great way to start the day.  Our first stop found us at Mount Soledad just north of San Diego.  A huge cross and military recognition overlooking the ocean.  It was obvious from the time Warren spent looking at the military plaques that we had hit a home run with this stop.

   On the way home we took them on Deluz road so they could experience the wonderful mountain scenery. 
      We had a great time and enjoyed their short visit.  A note from Barb a few days later saying she was still trying to get the chicken manure out of her floor mats, my words , not hers, hers were a bit more country flavored .  I guess that's the drawback to sharing a yard with chickens.  

Wes with his new friend.  Hope this
doesn't get on their floor mats.

     Our next guests from the prairie were on a automobile road trip and weren't so anxious to put on a huge amount of miles sightseeing.  After visiting with Wes and Brenda we decided to do some of the scenic roads and of course Deluz road. 

Wes is known for not smiling,  I think we almost got one here.  

 A fun relaxed day we ended it with dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant in Hemet.   

No trouble getting these two to smile.



        Wes and Brenda headed to Arizona to see a few more friends before returning to Minnesota.  Wes was less than impressed with the high prices and traffic in California.  After an experience with freeway traffic he commented "and they call me crazy for ice fishing, no this is crazy."  

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