Inoculation Vacation

Three families arrive on Friday for a weekend in a remote mountain lodge... It sounds like it could be the start of a "B" horror film. While we all emerged alive, most of us felt like death warmed-over. I thought I had dodged the 24-hour stomach flu bug the kids and Melissa had the week before. As it turns out, I was a both carrier and the first victim of the virus that plagued our weekend in Idyllwild.

Sitting atop Suicide on a sunny Sunday

Shaking off the flu bug blues with a hike. Melissa thought she heard the famous rumblings attributed to Tahquitch (a legendary mountain demon) by local Indians. As it turns out, it was my stomach...