Bill and I discovered a great suntan product (see below) when it was first sold by CVS Pharmacies throughout Orange County, California. It is sold as a moisturizer, but it has a side-effect of producing a healthy “glow” after you apply it, and especially if you keep using it.

This glow is just another word for a fake tan, but this one is a very even, non-streaking, smooth and natural-looking tan. Bill loves it in the winter because he wears shorts all the time (being both an ex-hippy and a surfer) and hates white legs on men. I find it a great moisturizer as well as delivering that glow.

It was originally marketed by Jergins (Lotions) and is called

Jergens^® natural glow
Daily Moisturizer

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Jergens® natural glow Daily Moisturizer delivers an optimum amount of color to even out and enrich the appearance of your skin. Formulated with a unique blend of non-drying Erythrulose, DHA and essential moisturizers to gradually develop a soft, natural glow, without streaking or orange coloration often experienced with using a self-tanner. Simply moisturize your skin to keep a beautiful and natural glow. It comes in three different shades to complement your unique skin tone.

BUT WAIT,,,,you don’t have to pay Jergins $8 or $9 for their stuff. You can buy the generic version at any of the jillions of CVS Pharmacies that seem to have bought out most other pharmacies in Orange County. We go to either the CVS on PCH in San Clemente, or the one on Camino de las Mares in North San Clemente.

The CVS version is called “Essential Glow” Daily Moisturizer and Bill uses the one for Medium Skin Tones and so do I. Also, this product is $2 to $3 cheaper than the Jergins original brand, but seems to work just as well.

Odd they do not market it as a fake sun tan lotion, but it could be because they figure the market is BIGGER for a product that serves a DUAL purpose: Moisturing AND sun tan, since likely far more people buy moisturizer (regularly used by millions) than they do sun tan lotion. And the sun tan feature makes THEIR product unique compared to other moisturizers. (So saith Bill, the marketing consultant guru and my hubby). Debbie

Every time I walk out on the wide, San Clemente pier, about 1,400 feet long, I marvel at how that sturdy wood structure could withstand constant ocean buffeting. There it perches on long “telephone poles” driven down, I suppose, to bedrock, and barely sways even during a storm.

You see fishermen on it all the time, but I only saw several who had actually caught fish. But that could be because I’m a late riser and never see fisherman early in the AM when fish are the biggest feeders.

I love July 4th, in San Clemente, because you can reserve a table right on the pier, have dinner, drinks and watch the fireworks taking place just a few hundred feet away towards the end of the pier.

Or, if you can get invited, you can spend a more cozy, private-party social evening up at the Casa Romantica, home of San Clemente’s founder, Ole Hanson, back in the twenties, before everything hit the fan in the crash of 1929.

There at the Casa, you overlook the entire pier basin, but especially the pier and the ensuing fireworks with perhaps a better perspective and less neck strain than from being right on the pier.

Yes, nearby Dana Point has its lovely harbor, and restaurants with fabulous harbor and coastal views like the Chart House and Cannon’s (where I proposed to Debbie at a Window Table),

but the harbor is sooooo commercial, with fiberglass, canvas, and concrete all over the place. While our San Clemente pier, is real honest creaky wood…a real joy to behold and walk upon. —Bill

A highpoint of the annual Dana Point, CA Festival of Whales (March 3-4, and 10-11) is the rows of dozens of booths near Hennesey’s Tavern on PCH. They always have one of those big inflatable slides that the kids skim down, and plenty of non-profit booths handing out information about water quality, save the whales, Dana Point Marine Museum, the toll road, and much more.

I always buy a pair of sun glasses, but only if they have polarized ones. I am always astonished that people even WEAR sunglasses that are not polarized. Polarization reduces glare, hugely. To see an example of how polarization works in sunglasses, go HERE

In CA, ALL sunglasses sold have to be UV protected ones. But how many car accidents happen because someone cannot see a head on car coming at them due to intense glare from the sun, off water, or off a wet pavement.

I like the wrap around style above because your peripheral vision is not blocked. And I love being able to see when there’s intense glare coming at me. EVERYONE should throw away all non-polarized sunglasses and get ones that ARE. It should be a law, the difference in safety is just that great. But don’t look for the sunglasses manfacturing industry to spread the word. They are happy with the reduced manufacturing cost and thus super-huge profit margins in making either just DARK sunglasses, or (in CA) UV sunglasses. —Bill

Bill Koelzer (L) and Greg Hogan

What a cool guy Greg is. His site is huge and the perfect community site for Orange County. He goes around to Orange County events—this the Dana Point Festival of the Whales this weekend and next—and takes pictures of people in these public places. Then he post them on their sites and invites the people to go see them, or someone else tells them to go.

In this way, he gets many visitors to his site and they keep returning because the site is PRIMARILY a calendar of upcoming events in Orange Count. He even has a real estate section where people can post their own listings for sale. And he has places for Realtors to enter their contact info and get banners.

I talked to him about doing some banner trade outs between his great site and the #1 site for “san clemente,” www.san-clemente.com, which I manage. Also, my wife Debbie will have an ad in his site soon, for real estate sales and the MLS.

Go check out his site at www.SouthOCbuzz.com. Drop Greg an email from there and tell him I sent you. Bill Koelzer