Since we left Wyoming late last September, we’ve cocooned in inland Northern California. It’s a region we only left yesterday by driving to SoCal, specifically to the Santa Ynez Valley which is just over the mountain from Santa Barbara. Long-time readers know we’ve spent a couple of winter months here for the past decade or more.
Honestly, I am amazed at the different levels of reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic found here versus in north-central CA. The lockdown here is much more stringent, almost no restaurants are open for outdoor dining, and none for indoor eating. I’d read they’d had more Wu flu cases here than up north, and it must be a reaction to that.
Tomorrow we begin the first day of a two-day easy drive to Mesquite, which is some 90 miles north of Las Vegas on I-15. Since our route runs through the fringes of the Los Angeles megalopolis we are doing it on a Sunday morning when the traffic won’t be as bad.
