About Us

We're recently retired, trying to organize our life to make life simpler. We plan to travel about six months per year taking several multi-month trips in the spring, fall and winter probably staying home much of the summer when everyone is traveling. We've put more than 20,000 miles on the RV in the past two years. We're looking for a possible new home town where the cost of living isn't as much as here in California, possibly where income and or sales taxes are less but mostly just a nice less crowded place to live.
Lou:
Lou (Lois) was born in Yakima Washington and later moved to Bakersfield. Lou attended East Bakersfield High. Lou is a real estate agent but worked for Palo Alto School District as a teachers aide working with special needs students until she retired in June 2005.
Don:
Don was born in Bakersfield California went to Fruitvale Elementary School, Bakersfield High School and Bakersfield College.
Don was a geek. Don was president of the Audio Visual Club at high school and worked as a stage hand and projectionist at the county’s Harvey Auditorium.
In 1969 Don joined the Air Force. He was stationed at Lackland AFB in San Antonio,Texas; Lowery AFB in Denver, Colorado; and at Sunnyvale AFS in Sunnyvale California. He worked as a satellite instrumentation technician operating the telemetry ground station.
He also worked at Moffett Field NAS as a projectionist at the theater.
Upon separation from the service in 1973 he continued to manage the theater at Moffett Field and worked for the Cable TV company in Sunnyvale. A few months later he went to work for the County of Santa Clara as a traffic signal technician. He became supervisor of electrical maintenance in 1985. His section was responsible for the operation and maintenance of traffic signals, building electrical, pump stations, and electrical inspection including the construction of a new Light Rail system. In 1996 he setup the Department's website and acted as webmaster. He also worked on the development of maintenance management software used by his section.
In June 2004 he retired after 30 years with the county. He is now working hard at not doing too much (learning how to be retired). He is also working on software development, primarily maintenance management software.