At this point, who cares? No sleep is a horrid problem and it affects everything about you. And then it affects people around you. She's not doing this on purpose and she's suffering from it, so what is a good husband kitteh to do but take care of her?
Such is life in the most privileged strata of the Patriarchy.
So we drove up to Palomar Mountain today and then came home by way of Santa Ysabel. We had the Catican Guards with us in the hopes of finding a place where crazed chihuahuas could run free. We didn't.
What is the deal with closing off the parks? I get the beaches because there lots of ways you can get close to other people on and around the beach, but the hiking trails and the parks? OK, so shut down the picnic areas if you're totally insane, but the hiking trails? Madness.
By now, we ought to be able to figure this out. We've got enough data to be able to loosen up a bit. Hiking trails. That's just crazy.
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| I've never come down East Grade Road out of Palomar into Santa Ysabel until today. It showed me a gorgeous part of San Diego. This is someone else's shot from later in the year as things begin to dry out, but today everything was lush and green. In this, San Diego has something Los Angeles lacks - open spaces within an hour's drive. If the place stayed green year round, I might be tempted to ditch my Alabama dream, but it doesn't. It looks good for 2-3 months out of the year and the rest of the time it's brown and dead. I'll still take 'Bama over San Diego. |
The hiking trails seem like a mixed bag to me. That first weekend here in San Diego we got to low 70’s and there was a traffic jam of hikers trying to go up and down Cowles Mt. There simply wasn’t any way for people to ‘social distance’ on that trail (which is about 4-6 feet wide). A lot of the ones I’ve walked (can’t really claim to have hiked) are even narrower. But there are places where the paths are wide enough that people could keep distance. So why not open them up? Well because everyone would flood those and the inevitable idiots in the crowd would make keeping separation impossible.
ReplyDeleteIt is like my son says: “just about every rule, and especially the stupid ones, were put in place because there some people who just couldn’t handle it”.
On the other hand, Mrs Ohioan and I have taken a walk around the neighborhood virtually everyday. We’ve seen lots of other folks doing the same. So far every time we have come upon folks going the other way, either we or they have crossed the street (with the exception of one group where we both started to cross, then stopped, then started again, and finally we kept crossing and they stopped). Anyways, it is still easy to get some light exercise and fresh air. So who needs a hiking trail?