Thanks to my father we moved to Southern California when I was 10 years old. Before that it was the life of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. That meant hot and humid in the summer and cold and damp in the winter. Since moving here I have been to the California’s snowy mountains four times and back to the Eastern winters twice.
Long time friends of mine invited us to their son’s wedding in La Jolla at the Torrey Pines Hilton this past weekend. We have visited San Diego about 100 times so the trip to La Jolla (a suburb of San Diego) is nothing new to us. The temperature will be 760 today. It was within one to two degrees of that temperature while we were there.
If you are looking for a place to live on the mainland with the most moderate climate Southern California is the place to live. Of course the cost of housing is any where from three to ten times the cost anywhere else in the country except Manhattan, Boston, and Hawaii.
You could spend many days just visiting the museums in San Diego. The displays are all spectacular. We spent about three hours in the Natural History museum and only saw about half of the displays. Another two hours was spent at Seaport Village. The rest of the time consisted of a nap and two evenings with the wedding party.
Well it was a Jewish wedding. Do I have to tell you any more than that? For those of you who don’t know, a Jewish wedding is always spectacular. There is a dinner followed by a night of dancing and singing. At the Hilton it could not have been better. I didn’t even talk about politics! Yes, I missed Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on SNL.
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