Well last night was hectic on the phone to Airbnb but
to make a long story short they have allowed me to leave this Airbnb two weeks early with a refund of my money less 10% for fees.
I also had booked another home here for four nights for four of my women tennis friends from SMA....obviously they are not coming an Airbnb also have given me a refund on this also and they told me the only reason I was able to get refunds was because the State declared a state of emergency.
So now I was left with a dilemma of what are where to go...I had originally booked another house sit in Eugene, Oregon from the 28th March to the 4th April and then drive to Vancouver island where I stay till the end of April.
I did not fancy sticking around here until the 28th so I called the owners of the house sit and explained my sit and asked if they would consider letting me out of my contract with them and for them to find another sitter and they said they would get back to me.
There was an e mail from the owners tonight saying they fully understand and will release me from my contract which is good for me because I do not want on my record that I broke an agreement it may effect future sits.
So apart from the sadness of not working and being around tennis for two weeks everything has worked out for me.
My new plan is now to drive up the coast all the way to Washington state and arrive early with my second family in Nanaimo, maybe this weekend.
So that is good news....
I was packed up and left the Airbnb around 7 am this morning and took this drive...
I am booked into a really lovey nice motel tonight in San Luis Obispo...a great room with kitchen two bedrooms and a tub!!
After checking in I walked to the down town centre and looked around a bit and took these photos...
Don’t ask me why an alley with over two million pieces of gum is a tourist attraction but it is!!!
Got an easy evening with a hockey game from LA on the TV.
Tom I have four little hikes to do and then I have a room booked to night I. Carmel by the sea!!
This is the press release!!
The Indian Wells tournament has been cancelled because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus.
The tournament, a combined ATP and WTA event which is one of the biggest and most prestigious outside of the Grand Slams, was due to start this week.
Health officials in California said there was "too great a risk" to hold a "large gathering of this size".
"We are prepared to hold it on another date and will explore options," said tournament director Tommy Haas.
Many of the world's leading players, including men's world number two Rafael Nadal, have already arrived in California for the event.
Qualifying was set to start on Monday with the main draw matches beginning on Wednesday.
The tournament draws more than 400,000 fans each year to Indian Wells, which is 130 miles east of Los Angeles.
The decision to call off the tournament was made after one case of coronavirus was confirmed in the local Coachella Valley area. A public health emergency has been declared by medics.
"It is not in the public interest of fans, players and neighbouring areas for this tournament to proceed," said Dr David Agus, professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California.
"We all have to join together to protect the community from the coronavirus outbreak."
Coronavirus - a fast-moving infection originating in China - has spread to more than 100 countries and claimed more than 3,800 lives.
"We are very disappointed that the tournament will not take place, but the health and safety of the local community, fans, players, volunteers, sponsors, employees, vendors, and everyone involved with the event is of paramount importance," added Haas, the former world number two.
WTA chief executive Steve Simon told the New York Times there had been discussions to hold the event behind closed doors but that option was rejected by tournament officials
Today was an important day in Mexico... a day without Women!!
About 10 women are killed in Mexico each day. There's a name for the killing of women because of their gender: femicide. Mexico has tracked femicides for the past eight years. In February, the country's attorney general said femicides have increased 137% over the last five years, four times more than the general homicide rate.
"This is a very important cause, it's not a game, not a vacation day," said Ileana Lopez, an administrator at a pharmaceutical company who stayed home. "Women have to fight for their rights every day."
The effects of the strike were evident on the street and on mass transit in Mexico City. Women were largely absent from designated women-only pink cars on Mexico City's subway.
A man who said he was a bus driver tweeted a photo of an empty bus behind him. "The city without women looks very sad," he wrote.
A journalist tweeted photos of train cars filled with men only, empty offices, mostly vacant parking lots, absent street vendors, closed stores in the mall and a Walmart with only a handful of men.
Women make up about 40% of the country's workforce, according to Mexico's Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce. Their absence for one day could cost the country the equivalent of a billion dollars.
Many big companies, including Walmart, Sears and L'Oreal, gave female employees a paid day off. The Mexican government did as well
International Women's Day: Clashes, Coronavirus And Women Prepare To Strike
The strike came one day after International Women's Day on Sunday, when some 80,000 women marched in Mexico City to protest violence against women, in addition to other marches around the country.
Two recent brutal killings in particular have galvanized activists. A 25-year-old Mexico City woman was stabbed, skinned and disemboweled last month, with photos then sprayed across a tabloid's front page. Two days after her body was found, a 7-year-old girl was abducted from her school. Her body was found wrapped in a plastic bag in Mexico City's outskirts.
Authorities reported 1,010 femicides in 2019. Women's rights groups say that number is an undercount. More than 3,800 women were killed in total last year.
Few cases are ever punished, with researchers from the University of San Diego saying women's murderers are treated with "systemic impunity."
"In Mexico it's like we're in a state of war," María de la Luz Estrada, coordinator of the National Citizen's Observatory of Femicide, told The Associated Press. "We're in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed."
Yashi Kochi!!
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