Hollywood RV Park Homes - Los Angeles - Sunday - Dec. 28, 2025

Sunshine, glorious sunshine!  Another hot day. Yesterday was sunny too.  Blue skies.  Laura was sitting at the picnic table reading. Walking Madigan I really appreciated the after rain scent in the air. Earthy smells.  Clean.  Happy trees, leaves and birds.  

I drove out in the morning to get Breakfast Burrito but the place was closed so I came back with Egg and Sausage McMuffins with sides of bacon for Madigan. That was it for activity.  I investigated the kitchen outflow water leak and decided it was beyond my scope. I’d have to pull up more floor or something to access it. I could see it but not reach it.  A loose hose clamp perhaps.  Lisa at the office recommended Phil who I called and will come on Wednesday. 

I’m working Monday all day and Tuesday we’re going to the Geddy.  

Laura sat at the table with Madigan. She walked him too. I lay on the couch reading.  It’s a book of intrigue from the Vatican and Medici.  I read a bit, check facebook and X , then nap, then read, then throw the ball for Madigan. Then I pet Madigan. He jumps on my face and lies on my chest.  Then he chases his tail barking at it. Then he sits on the table and gets a massage of his head back and ears.

Meanwhile I’m napping and reading and scrolling social media some more.  Later we snack.

We ordered Domino Hawaiian Pizza with the thin crust and balls of garlic bread.  We began binging Bosche again.  Jeri Ryan from Startek Borg episodes was a marvellous gorgeous villain.  I loved her and the whole dirty police episode and the politics of city and church and race.  It’s all more poignant because we’re in Hollywood and recognize some of the streets and places where the action occurs.  

I looked on the map and Bosche’s house is indicated .  Laura loves Bosche too.  “I’ve seen all the episodes.’   I d not seen these as I’d only become interested when the daughter joined the police. Here’s she’s still a teen ager.  I’m enjoying the relationships of Leutentant, J. Edgar, his prolifiler wife and comic pair.  The relationships are like Friends but with purpose.

Today’s another day with no plans but a meeting.  Maybe more of the same with Bosche in the evening . I suggested to Laura we could go back into Hollywood now that’s it’s not raining Maybe visit Bosche house.  Very much the tourist thing.  She enjoys the rest from work.  

I’m thankful. Grateful.  I love being here in the Thor with Laura and Madigan.  It’s peaceful and cozy.  Another day in LA. 

Sunshine Valley and Thor Hurricane Class A Motorhome

I am so grateful for this Thor Hurricane the Class A Motorhome I bought from Traveland RV Dealer with the help of Scotia Bank.  I have the money but if I take it out the government will take it and Scotia Bank would rather loan me some of the cost so we both benefit.  Everyone benefits and I benefit the most.  

I must confess I traded in my 40 foot fitth wheel Toyhauler, a truly fine machine. I had it for seven years but it was too big for me to tow.  I was quite terrified with it despite my comfort with my Ford F350 truck and Camper and towing the RV’s I’d had before. It was just too big for me and instead of being what I wanted it became a mobile home. When I went camping I took the truck and camper.  

Driving the Thor Hurricane home with Laura that first day was so exciting.  I could do it. It was a challenge but after getting a trial ride around from Traveland the drive home with Laura and Madigan, the cockapoo was thrilling.

Laura has been camping with me a quarter century.  I began camping with my Dad and Mom and Brother in an army surplus’s canvas wooden poled tent.  In my 20’s I’d tent bicycling across Europe or white water canoeing in northern Canada. I even camped with just a sleeping bag hiking the west coast trail and the sierra mountains under the glorious canopy of the Milky Way.  Laura joined me tenting. We rode on the back of my motorcycle all over British Columbia summer  sleeping out in a pup tent at night.  She’s been with me as we graduated from tent to truck tent to little RV, camper, and now the ultimate Thor Hurricane,  My parents did the same transition form tenting to Class A Motorhome and loved all the friends they made in the Good Sam Club.

Yesterday we drove out of Vancouver and through the construction and delays in Langley on through the heavy traffic that persisted till Abbostford.  After Abbotdford the smoke alarm sounded and I tried to stop in the RV rest area only to find it was overtaken with squatters.  With alarms screaming I threaded my way through what seemed more like the Downtown East Side than beautiful BC.  For a moment I was infuriated at the outrageous taxes we pay our government and their incompetence dealing with immigration, housing and homelessness.  Thankfully I got through the slum and parked on the side of the highway.  It was just the heat or dying battery in the alarm.  I pressed a button and on came the air conditioning.  There but for the grace of God go I I thought looking back at the RV stop, a resource developed for those of us who use the roads and pay the taxes and work.  I don’t begrudge the squatters so much as authorities for not maintaining law and order.  In the US there are magazines for those who want to boon dock,  Canada has similiar wilderness.  These people could be redirected to alternative places and those who stay over 24 hours in these services areas could be fined or moved along.  Of course this is wrong and the situations that cause this are wrong and the government is the problem but I’m growing spiritually.  

As a doctor, wise in acceptance  said, I can find a speck of dirt on a white canvas wall and think of nothing else and if you don’t see it as the problem then its an even bigger problems.  So there I was back on the road looking out the increasingly usage window at the glorious scenery thinking how silly I am.  The alarm was nothing.  Everything was okay and very quickly I was driving through Chilliwack and past Hope seating beside the most beautiful woman in the world with the greatest little crazy dog seeing the most incredible mountains on the way to Sunshine Valley.

It was raining but so what. I was in heaven and arriving here I was ecstatic. I’d not had an accident. We’d not broken down.  Everything had goon so well. 

Now we are parked in the pretties little civilized RV park with mountains and clouds hanging in the snow covered peaks.  It’s taken no time to pack up and we have our home with all the amenities here.  i made us Beef Pies heated in the microwave and we watched Blue Bloods on TV feeding the dog half a bin of Hagen Daz ice cream before we got his tick pill he kept spitting out into him..  

Then it was the sleep of saints,  Laura is the most incredible companion to sleep with despite the crazy dog bouncing about between us.  Now I’ve woken to a new day in the country.

Thank you Jesus.  God is good all of the time.  This is truly heaven on earth.  

Long Weekend BC DAy

Loved the Tim Minshin show at Q E Theatre. Tim Minshin’s Angry (feet) has been my favourite bit of psychiatry humor for a decade or two. I also loved Storm.  He opened with “if this plane should crash” and did a number of new songs since the Matilda and Ground Hog Days era.  I read about him winning the Edinburgh Comedy fest but couldn’t remember how exactly I came to know him AIM and Mark were big comedian fans and I wondered if they might have introduced me to him.  They’re in Sidney now.  2 children.  

Tim Minshin married to Sarah has 2 children and was born in England to his Australian parents so has this British Aussie following. I loved him sharing about his mother’s death and his father’s grief.  He said that marriage is like picking a best friend to decay with.  Laura and I laughed at that. 

He’s always been intellectual in his humor, aetheist but his critiques are valid. I don’t share his views and am enjoying Neuroscient Mario de Beauregaarsd’s audio book of Spiritual Brain which I’d read in hard cover a deacade ago, He really did a funny number on the routine criticism of intenet that ‘he’s old white and conservatie’.  I found it especially amusing because I’d just been criticized by an ‘old white guy ‘ by a racist name calling leftist, who despite acting childish and immature, doesn’t realize that he’s over 30 ow so himself  considered ‘ old  and white too.”

We drove home in the Mini from downtown. Laura’s here for the weekend.  I’ve just been barbecuing as usual. We’ve walked Madigan several times a day independently and together. I had my hair coloured and cut at Chatterer’s by Shirin who’s had her hair cut and curled so she looks like a. 30’s can can girl. She’s really cute.  She’d just been on vacation to Cancun and also visiting her mom out east.  I had my nail’s repaired at Professional, the black polish restored.  Oddly self care is ‘tiring’.  

The next day was book reading. I’ve finished a Corsair and pirate novel of Malta and Algiers featuring the Knights of the Order of St. John.  Now I’ve down loaded a SF book but have been reading whole lot of history.  I read several books on prehistory and geography and archeology, sexuality and transexuality. . Now I’m in the midst of the history of prostitution and fascinated by its ubiquity.  A Norway historian wrote it when his partner a doctor was developing a public health plan to prevent AIDS

My camper came back from Kelvin at Travco. It’s all new again.  Costly damage from my backing up with the trailer.  Turns out I needed to have an extension on the hitch so it was happening simply because of the hitch not being long enough.  I was so pleased to see my littler winter home again.  I towed it out to Chilliwack for storage and drove back.  Laura and I are off to Pemberton for the opening of bow hunting in the August long weekend.

It’s Pride weekend. I’d hoped to go to the parade and even considered buying a new frock to wear but when Laura’s here I lose interest in cross dressing and getting out. It’s just pleasant to hang out. The thought of driving down town to walk among crowds just lost its appeal. Alone with Madigan we might have donned a frock for the occasion but with Laura’s company here , Madigan, the sunshine and heat, it was better to enjoy the couch air conditioning barbecue and Prime movies.  We loved the Irish movie with Liam Neilsen.  .  Madigan has so enjoyed participating in the steak meals getting shares from two plates rather than just one. 

We also learned that the left wing Hammas PLO favourites were terroriszing the Pride Parades.  We had the Marxist corporation BLM terrorizing previous Pride parades.  Hammas is causing riots all over England and still refusing to return the Israeli hostages they stole.  The Hammas Palestinians, Trudeau’s friends,  continue to want Israelis out completely and death to Jews with their people only hearing the propaganda while the Israelis continue to be reasonable and want co existence.  Hammas wants power and money and arms.  I loved reading revolutions just mean the overthrow of one beaurocratcy to be replaced by another worse one. I certainly don’t want the Ayatollah and can’t see why the LGBT community are so anti democracy and pro Muslim. It’s all about politics making strange bed fellows. Trudeau is the friend of terrorism and anti law and order except for his elite buddies. 

The middle class is being destroyed here and the working folk like me are being attacked financially annd physically in riots.. Frankly I’m avoiding crowds and liberals because they’re so entitled and violent.  They are against self defence and so favour criminals. The left wing news media calls the Muslim mobs ranging the streets with machetes the ‘victims’.  Trudeau is the prime enabler of violence and the liberals encourage disorder so like the communists always do they can centralize authority and impose draconian measures because they let the terrorist run amok. Such a contrast to the Peaceful Freedom rally where Trudeau declared martial la. 

  I’m just glad now I didn’t go to Pride. I don’t see Pride as a parade I’d like to attend with he anti police stance, pro BLM and now pro Hamma. Trudeau was there for the selfies and it nauseates me seeing him wasting my tax dollars and showing such disrespect to middle class and aging, . But then I’ve not attended the Irish Parade either in recent years. Nor the Chines Parad. I didn’t go to the fireworks. I don’t like crowds and the lack of law and order in Trudeau canada.  I feel safe at home and am glad to be able to be here today.  

I enjoyed my Oxford course but am still waiting for results , a problem that occurred with the initial assignments.  Im considering another on line course but then I think I should be focussed on completing the three books I’ve half way completed.  I continue to work and sometimes think the books will be done when I finally retire.  I like that I paid taxes and rent and dropped off and picked up a large load of laundry that had been accumulating. I’ve not been doing laundry here despite having a washer and it’s summer so drying wouldn’t be an issue. I’ve just been plodding on and pleased with what I’ve accomplished. This weekend is a contrast because we’ve really been doing little.  Reading books, walking the dog, and hanging out. It’s so rare in my busy schedule.

On facebook I was interested in the XY female so reviewed the genetics and comments on the misinformation on FB.  I mentioned Dreger's Hermaphroitism and the Medical Invention of Sex. I was interested that ‘woke’ would make statements she was a ‘biological woman’ when she couldn’t reproduce, had XY and must be taking hormones.  The French IOC insisted on the Passport ‘rule’ yet Canada and the US allow the changing of gender on the passsport without even a physician’s involvement. The Woke want ‘facts’ to be decided by politics. Like the USSR.  God is the Dictatorship.My truth and your truth rather than one truth with multiple perception.  Meanwhile Grymes the swimmer who contested Phelps the transexual was just awarded $50 million.  The Algerian boxer who has DSD = disorder of sexual development, and was disqualified by the International Boxiang ASsociation apparently is XY but also apparently had high testosterone which shouldn’t occur as XY - Swyer’s syndrome can’t produce hormones.  The plot thickens.  I’m cetainly pro trans but don’t see Male as Female.  It continues to be that Michelle Obama is thought to be Michael and now Macron’s wife is admittedly trans.  I think there’s a third category but that’s my love of Trinity over binary reductionism.  M F and Other.  

Biden stepped down without falling andd Kamala is being promoted by the Left as the Democrat Presidential Candidate to face Trump who has been falsely accused along with the  lies upon lies by the democrats.  I don’t know . The cost of living is exponentially high. I’m older now.  I love Laura and Madigan’s companionship.  

Time for another coffee.  These are the best days of my life.  God is good all the time. Good to be sober too. Thanks Jesus.  The aethest see the dance but can’t hear the music.. I’m so thankful for the dance and music.

New Day, new week

Madigan and I just saw Laura off. Having her over for the weekend was wonderful.  Good excuse to do little, chat, watch tv, do errands and eat great meals.  Madigan was in heaven. Laura is his mommy but he forgets at times with his psychotic puppy brain and thinks she’s his girlfriend, trying to hump her leg when I’m not watching.  Aim called Gilbert ‘the humper’.  I’m thinking this is why young males get kicked out of the cave.  In fairness he’s actually learning the commands ‘no’, and ‘down’. 

It really was great having this time together. The Saturday outing was a trip to a couple of Bosley’s looking for his favourite Tikki food, specifically Greece, and a new water bottle attachment for trips in the truck

Linda Nankov at Flight Centre organized our holiday accommodation with no penalties if we had to cancel 48 hours before. With Covid and quarantine rules I didn’t want to be ‘locked’ into a hotel room.  

Thaun Vo at Rand and Fowler who takes care of all my vehicle insurance is arranging for us to have travel insurance .  It was exciting to be planning with Laura.

Then the two of us began thinking of camping this summer.

Last month it was so bleak. I had difficulty getting out of bed and getting through the day.  It’s the sun’s effect. 

I even charged the battery on my Harley. It was a time as usual to try and find how to remove the seat to get to the battery but I found the battery charger without difficult and the ratchets and screw driver. The whole process went without a glych.

We were sorry to hear a friend had a heart attach when the heart arteries were already too small for a stint. He had emergency open heart surgery and now has a 6 month recovery period. We’re so glad he lived. He’s a wonderful man.  So many of these guys with a ‘big heart’ seem to care for everyone till their actual heart bursts.  I’m pleased he didn’t work himself to death and I’m really pleased the scientific advances in cardiology are so advanced.  

We got more gummy vitamins. Laura turned me on to them.  Candy medicine.  I could only find Vitamin D in the Sesame Street brand so that’s what I’ve got.  When I was a kid everything that was good for you tasted terrible.

We even bought Madigan a new thin dog bed he hasn’t eaten yet. He eviscerated both the stuffed ones.  I changed the sheets and comforter covers and pillow cases because Laura was coving over. It really was nice to have clean sheets. I blame her for the work, like I blame her for all the comfort and luxury I add in my life not admitting I really enjoy it too. The joke is the guys call the camper, ‘Laura’s camper’ because she’d done her time tenting and wanted a shower and more protection from the bears.  I love the camper and was pleased to learn this weekend that it will be ready for spring and summer camping.  

It’s so hard to believe how good I feel when before Christmas I was literally crawling on my belly to the finishing line, so disheartened and depressed and fatigued with such a daily grind of chronic pain  Then Harrisons and the hot springs and more time with Laura and now I’m actually feeling joyful and hopeful.

Dr. Bonnie Henry is rolling back the pandemic to endemic status.  The tracking and tracing has finally stopped. I’ll be glad when the lockdowns are totally lifted.  It’s happening in Europe.  

I’m very thankful.  The weather is supposed to be warm like this for a few more days. We had fog with the inversion.  

It’s a new day, a new week, a new year. I wrote a song and played it and recorded it and was thankful people were kind.  I even played guitar again this week.  Too much time is spent on social media.  I’ve been reading a lot of books and watching tv, often with a travel perspective. The History of Modern ARt, the History of Scotland, the Stuart MacBride Scottish detective novels set in Aberdeen, the Louvre.  I completed my MOCOMP cycle successfully again despite 2020 Covid restriction. I may attend the positive psychology conference here in the summer or go to IDAA or both. I’ve so enjoyed attending the IDAA meetings on line, seeing all the old friends, feeling connected.  I’d not realized how disconnected I’d become. It was a bit like early days covid when the Rolling Stones ‘living in a ghost town’ summed it up. Now it’s just the tedium.  The Trucker Drive on Ottawa is taking place. I think Trudeau winning the election was the point when I lost faith in elections and concluded that the digital elections were open to fraud . If smart guys can hack everything else it’s got to be no difficulty hacking elections. Obviously Trudeau is who the Communist Chinese Army wants as Prime Minister.  I think of Wallace Freedom and realize the majority of recent immigrants unlike refugees are economic migrants who don’t share the ‘values’ that we knew as Canadians, « True North Proud and Free. ». Just like every other third world country we have this dictator want to be with all the corruption we once thought was Africa or Asia’s but is now the Canadian model. I talked to South Americans’ and they’re only surprised that we were optimistic.  We watched Matrix Resurrected.  

The truth is within.  The storms come and go like on the boat but the sun shines and fair winds and following seas eventually arrive. Spring is always so beautiful in Vancouver. The daffodils and crocuses and the returning birds.  It’s all so uplifting. 

I’m so blessed. Thank you Jesus. Thank you God of God. Thank you Lord of Lords.  Hallelujah!!!!