We are "set up" in Venice, for the moment. This area was named by early settlers in 1888 in recognition of the many waterways around here. The city became a reality when the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers came in 1925 and began to build a planned retirement community for its members. The RV park we are in is called Florida Pines, not sure why, no pines are planted in here. Many citrus and palm trees, tho. Since we arrived on New Years Day, we have moved our site location twice, and we see a new move coming today. The first site had no working 30 amp electricity. We all know I like to have electric. No one was in the office to assist us, being a holiday weekend. The sign on the office door listed sites open so we moved to one of those. On Monday the manager informed us we needed to move back to our original site, the electricity was fixed. So we did. Hooked up. Settled in for some TV viewing. No working cable. Not happy. We don't like the site, situated in between an entire block of permanent mobile homes, at the other end of the park, away from the seasonal RVers. Stay tune for what happens next. Andy checked out a few other parks in the area on-line last night and will call today and see if they have openings. If we can get our money back (we paid in advance for the month!)
The surrounding area is nice, close to great shopping and Venice Beach. We do think we may be spoiled from our last place, getting served a morning paper, breakfast and lunch! Although, we have fresh oranges growing outside our window.
Its been VERY cold here. I know the whole country is in a cold spell, but yesterday we had on down vests, scarfs and gloves. They have frost and freeze warnings out, plants are being covered. Actually, this morning I think I saw a snow cloud.
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