The weather report said "Rain!" and "Rain!" and "More Rain!" so I bought a nice pair of gloves and a plastic poncho. There were no inexpensive umbrellas in any of the local stores because it does not rain that often in the desert and when we have our monsoon season the temperature seldom drops below the high 90's anyway, so wet is not synonymous with cold.
But now it is December so the first winter rain created a run on umbrellas. When it is sunny we see many of them in the dollar stores, but now they are $10 or $20 if you can even find one, so thinking of the 7 or 8 umbrellas I left up north, buying yet another one down here seemed ridiculous. But the poncho was cheap and came in a pretty pink mesh bag that could be used for something else. Oh, you will use it, everyone said, as the way it looks now it will be raining all week. Not!
At 7 the next morning, glorious sunshine woke me up and stayed with us all the way to the San Diego Airport and later up along the coast where I found a little bit of Heaven in San Clemente at a restaurant called China Well, which serves their home made Ginger Beer in a huge mug for 99 cents. They are right off Highway 5 near the intersection of Camino Estrella and Camino de Los Mares.
The next morning the sun came up again, just as it should, so I checked out the Harbor at Dana Point about three miles further up the coast:
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