It has been eight months since I moved to Southern California. People told me the place is very beautiful albeit hot. Every place I visited here in So Cal (please note that it is limited to Orange, Garden Grove, Anaheim, Irvine, Foothill Ranch, Escondido and San Diego) has been scorching hot. The temperature has reached almost 100F on many occasions.
But, I have had a different experience over the past two weekends. Two weekends ago I visited Lake Arrowhead. It is a small community in the San Bernardino mountains (a twenty mile drive uphill!). The place is awesome. Kind of like the places you would see in movies like Dante's Peak, where everyone knows everyone else. The temperature, well was not quite So Cal like. It was very very cold. I would roam about Orange County wearing just a cotton t-shirt and jeans. But, this place was cold, the pullover I had carried with me was not enough. Felt a wee bit like New Jersey in the late winter and made me a little nostalgic.
Last weekend I went to Big Bear Lake, again in the San Bernardino mountains. A bigger community than Lake Arrowhead and the temperature way lower. It was 40F there. My friends and I were literally shivering. I ate probably the best pizza I have had yet in the local pizzeria - Village Pizza something. I enjoyed pineapple on my pizza for the first time. We decided to hit one of the local sports bar - Sandy's Sports Bar. A very different experience for me. The sports bars I have visited so far (Lucky Strike and Dave and Buster's) had a totally different ambience. I saw incessant rains for the first time in eight months. All in all, I have had two very fun weekends.
Later on today, I am headed to the Bay Area - San Francisco to be precise. My aunt, cousin and a friend(she is in India now for a vacation!) live close by. I will not be able to visit them. Our schedule is very hectic. I hope this roadtrip will be as nice as my previous two ones.
But, I have had a different experience over the past two weekends. Two weekends ago I visited Lake Arrowhead. It is a small community in the San Bernardino mountains (a twenty mile drive uphill!). The place is awesome. Kind of like the places you would see in movies like Dante's Peak, where everyone knows everyone else. The temperature, well was not quite So Cal like. It was very very cold. I would roam about Orange County wearing just a cotton t-shirt and jeans. But, this place was cold, the pullover I had carried with me was not enough. Felt a wee bit like New Jersey in the late winter and made me a little nostalgic.
Last weekend I went to Big Bear Lake, again in the San Bernardino mountains. A bigger community than Lake Arrowhead and the temperature way lower. It was 40F there. My friends and I were literally shivering. I ate probably the best pizza I have had yet in the local pizzeria - Village Pizza something. I enjoyed pineapple on my pizza for the first time. We decided to hit one of the local sports bar - Sandy's Sports Bar. A very different experience for me. The sports bars I have visited so far (Lucky Strike and Dave and Buster's) had a totally different ambience. I saw incessant rains for the first time in eight months. All in all, I have had two very fun weekends.
Later on today, I am headed to the Bay Area - San Francisco to be precise. My aunt, cousin and a friend(she is in India now for a vacation!) live close by. I will not be able to visit them. Our schedule is very hectic. I hope this roadtrip will be as nice as my previous two ones.
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