Life goes on even with cancer

We're moving to San Jacinto next Friday. San Jacinto is a small but growing city about 95 miles southeast of Los Angeles and 30-something miles east of Riverside. It's surrounded by hills and farmland so it has that small town feel. Even has a Walmart.

We used to live in Riverside and an acquaintance lives in a neighboring city so I knew San Jacinto was there though I

 had never been to see it. I am curious to see what the nights are like. The air seems clean and relatively smog free, but it isn't summer yet.

Summer in SoCal tends to be smoggy because there isn't much breeze then, unless you happen to live in a High Desert city like our son Steve where the wind never seems to let up. That area was once extremely rural but in the 80s, President Reagan decided to sell all the government land and it began booming.

It's happening now in San Jacinto. However, the one good thing is that the town sits 20 miles from the nearest freeway. That means less smog and even less traffic.

This picture was taken on December 29. Ah, winter in So Cal.

The roads leading into town are two lanes wide. They go through some nice farm land, as I said, and one goes over some hills to the north in an easy 20 mile drive. And yet, there is not a lot of traffic. Traffice is mostly near the freeways where it belongs.

Also, the other night, while browsing jobs, I happened upon one for a management position in the area so I sent off an email asking if they had filled the job yet. The next day I got a reply asking me to meet with them next week. It's part time and I will be able to work from home. It is also located in the next town just a few minutes from the apartment and they are flexible on the schedule.

We just have to make sure it doesn't affect the health coverage in the wrong way.

Works perfectly with college. Might mean taking night classes in the Fall but it would only be for a few months.

So, there it is. Life is looking good and another chapter begins.