Thanks , I did the Goggle Earth thingy and had a look see at Hemet. Over the hill from Palm Springs and not quite a suburb of LA city. What sort of driving time from your place into the big smoke, 2 to 3 hours ? Those bush fires must be the scarest thing to have in your neighbour-hood as they are so distructive with absolutely no warning and although homes etc can be rebuild it is all the small items etc that one accumulates throughout ones life time that is so difficult to replace or recover from the lose of.