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For the past couple of months we have endured the banging and crashing and dust-making frenzy of our next door neighbor's complete remodel. I mean the place has been ripped down to the studs, the roof is gone and for eight hours a day all hell is breaking loose over there. And it's not the kind of noise you can adapt to easily: It's a bunch of pounding or sawing, followed by a brief (?) silence or a generator pulsing or someone dropping a stack of 2 x 6 lumber on a cement sub-floor. These are the kinds of noises that our lizard brains register as potential danger... sharp, loud and then mysteriously disappearing while the intervening silence itself becomes threatening by vaguely promising another surprise crash-bang soon to come.
So this is the nerve wracking auditory chaos which sent us on a quest for a peaceful retreat. Fortunately, we have a small RV trailer sitting in our driveway to serve as our escape pod. And -- lucky us! -- we found our retreat a little over a hundred miles away in Santee, CA, just outside San Diego. From their website:
"Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve hosts over 700,000 visitors annually. The 190‐acre Park has seven beautiful recycled water lakes that are stocked with sport fish year-round. Two million gallons of water each day is recycled at our Ray Stoyer Water Reclamation Facility north of Santee Lakes, and the water flows through Santee Lakes which creates a unique recreation area."
