I've been stuck working up in Los Angeles for the past year, and living in a Van Nuys trailer park in my small 18 foot trailer. At first I spent the evenings reading and tying flies for all the flyfishing trips I'll probably never take. When that got old, the TV and satellite dish went on the roof. I still watch a bunch of TV, but what really got me out with the neighbors was when I bought my small portable pellet smoker and started cooking really tasty stuff. Now several times a week I get together with all the neighbors and we eat diner together. Ribs, salmon, steaks, chicken, scratch made pizza - whatever someone feels like picking up or putting together I'll cook. New guy moved in across the way with another pellet smoker so now we tag-team - one of us does the meat, the other desert. The whole row is really close now so it feels like one big family...