After a peaceful night sleeping through a lot of frogs and insects going off we woke early to a beautiful clear day. We had a lazy morning, breakfast, checking emails etc by the pool before driving the five minutes into Julian to explore a bit. A lot of places were shut, not sure what that's about but we checked out a few places including The Cider Mill and bought some treats there like sugar free frog jam (fig, raspberry orange and ginger) and also some sugar f...

Our second bite of Aug 31st. We arrived on time into LAX at 6am to a cool 18c murky day probably due to the fires still burning to the north of the city and the usual LA smog. The flight was far from awesome, we didn't manage to get our usual seats with nobody in front of us and the ignorant couple in front of us fully reclined their seats the whole way from just after lunch. We slept little if at all but watched a few films and I checked out a few new TV shows...