October

The leaves have turned their autumn colors. In a single day, it seems, a tree can go from vibrant foliage to bare branches here in Southern Oregon.

The days are getting shorter, and the nights and mornings are chilly. There are a mix of sunny days, cloudy days with drizzle, and beautiful partly cloudy ones too.

I always feel like traveling in the fall. In fact, I feel like traveling all the time, but around late October, the urge is even stronger.

I’m a nomad at heart.

A list of towns might be interesting. Below, I have listed only the towns where I have resided at least once. In some cases, I lived at several addresses at different times.

These are not necessarily in chronological order:

  1. Reseda / Tarzana (what was Reseda reverted to Tarzana)
  2. Canoga Park
  3. Malibu
  4. City of Commerce
  5. San Pedro
  6. Harbor City
  7. Torrance
  8. South Santa Ana
  9. Burbank
  10. Shadow Hills
  11. Dunedin, FL
  12. Spanaway, WA
  13. Kingman, AZ
  14. Encino
  15. Carson
  16. Pasadena
  17. La Crescenta
  18. Kagel Canyon
  19. Lake Los Angeles
  20. Sherman Oaks
  21. Lomita
  22. Glendale
  23. Altadena
  24. Arcadia
  25. Gardena
  26. Lake Elsinore
  27. Tujunga
  28. Palm Desert
  29. Palm Springs
  30. Bermuda Dunes
  31. Medford, OR

I lived in Bermuda Dunes for 9 years, second only to the home I grew up in, in Reseda, where I lived for about 13 years.

I still think about where else I would like to live next.

I want to have a nice, stable home as a base of operations, then travel to see other parts of the country.

That is why I like the title “nomad.” It describes how I have lived.

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