Views from Medina Road

Long day of cancelled and delayed flights from LA to Boston to DC, while nervously listening and phoning for news of the fires back home in LA. An area of Simi Valley where my sister lives was under voluntary evacuation, and though she had plenty of time to pack the family cars, they did not have to leave. Arriving late at the hotel, our reservation apparently lost until a manager is summoned, and discovering, as seems to happen more often these days, that travelers from the west coast are out of luck trying to get food from east coast hotels after 11p.m.... We did manage to scrounge a deli plate in the bar.