"We are all 55 and older in here and dying"..............

Walking EVRY STREET IN CALIMESA just got a little more interesting.

Let's just start off this post with the BIG question.  Who is 55 and older and who is dying???  Well that answer to that, apparently, is everyone in the Californian - a 55+ mobile home park on California Street and the very first mobile home park that we got kicked out of!!!  Yep....  I'm serious....  three streets into our walk in the Californian, this woman comes running out of her trailer to see what we were doing (walking - in bright colored walking clothes), and why we were doing it (we said - to get healthier....haha).  She then proceeded to tell us we couldn't be there and everyone that lived there was 55 and over (I guess we don't look 55+) and that they were all dying (how sad)!!  We said we would leave but she demanded to escort us to the front (wasn't she sweet)!!!

You can see our personal escort in the red shirt behind us!!

Funniest thing though is when we left "her" mobile home park and went right across the street and into the Colony mobile home park.  She yelled at us NOT to go in that one either (but we did)!!!

NOTE TO SELF:  DO NOT walk in this mobile home park!!!

So today's walk took us partially through the Californian and into the Colony both on California Street.  We then heading down Avenue L, where we were greeted by a very nice gentleman that first offer bottled and when we declined offered us a cold beer (haha).  From Avenue L we headed up Third Street, grabbed the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park (which we did not get kicked out of ;-), then up County Line Road and down Second Street.

Lots of little cul-de-sacs along this route.  The route itself was a nice 5.51 mile walk (no hills along this route) - Avenue L and County Line are both very busy streets during the time walk and neither have sidewalks, so probably not the safest route either, but we got 'er done and we are a little closer to wrapping up our walks in Calimesa.

Colony Mobile Home Park

California and Avenue L

Heading down Avenue L

3rd Street

Ponderosa Mobile Home Park on 3rd Street

3rd Street & County Line Road

It's US!!!!

County Line Road

Second Street

One of 4 cul-de-sacs off of 2nd Street.

Another beautiful sunset

Our findings on this walk!!

Our route.

CALIMESA - Douglas to California

Our new challenge of WALKING EVERY STREET IN CALIMESA started at Avenue L and Douglas and wound its way down to California.  Although there are a couple of mobile home parks on California, we didn't grab them today but will pick them up tomorrow.

Today's walk took us on typical Calimesa streets..... no side walks (just like Yucaipa), potholes and cracks all over the streets and lots of animals.  We started off being greeted by a family of goats, passed by quite a few horses, lots of dogs and some very friendly cats.  I love the ruralness (is that a word) of Calimesa.  I can totally see why the citizens are fighting big warehouses in the city limits.  It's very peaceful and I hope that doesn't change!!

Enjoy pictures from our walk today.  Tomorrow we will be starting on California Street at the mobile home parks at 4:15 (if you want to join us).

Not even started walking yet and she's already made a friend!!!
Douglas and Avenue L

Heading up Douglas Street

A beautiful church along our route.

I love the green space all around town!!

Heading down County Line -
On the Calimesa side :-)

Bryant Street - Heading towards Avenue L

She just can't help herself.....

Loretta and Bryant

The sun wasn't quite setting - but a beautiful shot.

California Street

I walked right past it - darn it!!
Our findings for this route!!

CALIMESA......... READY, SET......GO!!!!

Wrapped up our walk around Yucaipa this past weekend and started our challenge to WALK EVERY STREET IN CALIMESA today!!!  A great 5.17 mile walk in 1:16.

Have you every noticed all those homes up on the hills to the east of Calimesa and Yucaipa?  For all these years, I seen them up there but never knew how to get up to see them up close.  Well today we found out....YOU CAN'T!!!  Yep, the hills to the east is a gated community called Oak Hills Estates and the gated entrance in Calimesa, off of Selrocco, was the beginning of our walk today.

The entrance to Oak Hills Estate

The view down Selrocco Drive.

A massive hill on Arabian Way -
Killer but WE DID IT!!

The top of Arabian Way!!

We continued down Selrocco to Fremont where we encountered this No Trespassing Sign that blocked off the area that was suppose to be JP Ranch.  Looking through the gate, we saw streets - streets we needed to walk - streets without any traffic - and....OMG.... a downed fence to the left meant......  WE COULD WALK THEM!!!

An inviting entrance to the area in Calimesa
where time stood still!!!

Old water tanks in JP Ranch

The streets in JP Ranch

Heading out Bryant Street

Looking out over this undeveloped area.
Love the sounds of the birds and seeing the rabbits!

Back on Bryant Street

The goats on Douglas Street off of Avenue L.

The beautiful church on Avenue L.

Heading down Avenue L.  Love the rural streets in Calimesa.

Mesa Grande Academy - Fremont Street

Heading up County Line to Holmes Street.

Beautiful horses on Holmes Street.

Is a caption really needed for this beautiful sunset!!

Holmes Way

Holmes and Ronda Court

Ronda Court

This is our findings for this walk...
a entire ONE penny!!