The month of February we will be located at Jojoba Hills Escapee Resort, our favourite place to be in California. It is located about 17 miles east of Temecula; driving distance to San Diego, south, or Los Angeles, west, is about an hour and a half. This is another of those parks that is nestled in the mountainous desert on windy 79 away from the busy nearby cities. The air is fresh, the sky is bright blue, the mountains have a skiff of snow on top and at night one can hear owls hooting and coyotes yipping in the pitch dark! Love it!
The sunsets are glorious! Usually nightly, the setting sun in its splendour of reds and pinks reflects its beauty on the fluffy clouds above! There is so much to do here and the SKPs as they are called are such a friendly lot! Hiking, playing cards, crafts, especially quilting and pickleball are some of our favourites.
This is our hike to the Aguanga Falls; all 24 of us set out from the resort to the nearby falls on a 3 mile hike; this is probably the largest group of hikers ever! A pretty little falls that we are told flows all year round...interesting as this is the desert! Most of the hike is through a sand wash where every few hundred yards a small stream will appear on the sand, only to go underground a few feet later. Following this view, we hiked back to the Outdoor Resort which is across the highway to view the radio operated planes that some of the residents own and fly. Gliders, biplanes and gas operated planes "buzzed" this little man-made "airport".
The little "metropolis" of Aguanga consists of this general store and the nearby Post Office. This is a good place to go for basics of bread and milk when the 17 mile trip to Temecula is not warranted. The Mexican owner posed for us and was delighted to see us as we hiked back to Jojoba. We love it in this resort area so much that we have placed our names on the waiting list (3-5 years) for a permanent site when we are ready to "settle" and no longer travelling.
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