Manteca, Lodi, Brentwood

We spent a couple of days in Manteca. It is near Stockton. Claude and I went to Lodi yesterday to visit with a couple, Leo and Ineke Volkert, who are long time business friends of Claudes. They live in a lovely home in the middle of a vineyard. They are not in the wine making business, but since they have 44 acres of Chardoney grapes (white ones) that they sell to a popular local wine maker each year. They have a man named Randy, who takes care of the grape vines and all the other chores around their property. Leo and Ineke are very outgoing and ready to retire in the next few years hopefully in the Northwest. They took us to downtown Lodi for a delicious dinner of Sushi and Teriyaki. Here is a photo of both of them and Claude just for those of you who know Leo and Ineke.

Today we drove south to Chowchilla which is near Merced/Fresno. We are in a nice RV site. We have no idea what we will do while we are in this area but we'll check it out. On our way here today, we went to an area called Brentwood. It is a really nice suburb of a suburb of San Francisco. Nice, wide streets, bike lanes and a beautiful new community called Trilogy. It's one of those nice adult communities. We had fun looking around but won't be living this far north. We are finding we like the homes that are about 1800 to 2000 square feet. Two bedrooms with a den. Our next location "Morgan Hills" should give us plenty of opportunities to see several areas of interest for us including more of San Francisco for fun. Morgan Hills is south of the San Jose area. We may stay there through Nov. 9th while Claude attends an AOPA convention in San Jose in November. Tune in soon for more input.