hammock

If you long for the hammock lifestyle, load up the truck and head for the Golden State.

Some might even be small enough to hang a hammock.

She calls them her “kids,” declares that she loves them more than her own family, even though she proves a less than stellar caretaker, feeding them junk food, furnishing their cages with little more than a tire swing and a hammock.

“Here it’s cooler,” said 73-year-old Augusto Walter, hanging his hammock on Wednesday in the tidy two-bedroom house with a backyard.

“We feel like we’re more comfortable here, there’s more space,” López said, sitting on his own hammock Wednesday.