Goodbye B&B, Hello Residence Inn

One of the most interesting things about a Bed and Breakfast is the intimacy (albeit temporary) between guests. I mean with 5 bedrooms the maximum number of guests in the Kern River Inn B &B is 10 adults but we never had more than six. Since we meet coming and going from the parking area, on the staircase, and we all eat breakfast at the same time, one gets to know everyone else rather quickly.

Carolyn, of course, is especially helpful in this regard she draws people out of their shell and gets them talking about their jobs or other interests. This morning we were listening to all the other guests talk about what they did - two of them were on the same evaluation team as Carolyn and the third was an anthropologist employed by the state. Apparently the hydroelectric dams and their respective co-constructions are old enough to be considered of interest to anthropologists and fall under the laws designed to protect old human artifacts. After the women had each talked about their particular job responsibilities which brought them to the Kernville area, one of them asked what I had been doing with my time.

I said that I had been having a great time geocaching in the area. Suddenly, I had a captivated if not a captive audience of the 3 fellow guests, the assistant innkeeper, and the cook. Everyone moved a little closer to hear what I had to say. I described the way the whole system of logging in and printing out cache locations worked. Laura, one of the guests, brought in her laptop computer so that we could all see where all the caches in the Kernville area were. Then we used her home zip code. That almost always impresses. The cook could see the economic advantage to businesses to allow caches in areas around town that need more exposure.

After a leisurely drive to Long Beach, we hooked up with family members and got to watch Sage, Brooke, Libby, and Jillian play pee-wee soccer sponsored by the Long Beach Parks and Recreation until everyone decided that it was much too hot to play and they'd rather have ice cream anyway.

This evening's entertainment was at Frisco's, a new family fun restaurant in Long Beach.