Up to Oregon

We had a nice sunny day for driving.







We were thrilled to see lot of water in Lake Shasta, more that we've seen in many years, right up the boat launch ramp.

We stopped in Corning at the Petro for fuel and ran into Mike. The next break was at Weed by the airport with Mt Shasta cloaked in cloud in the background. There were many seagulls standing around on one leg and tail feathers that looked like they had polka dots.


We passed the fresh snow across the mountain from us as we went along in the sunshine. Dry roads. Mike was an hour ahead of us and saw a few snowflakes. We arrived at Phoenix, fueled at $3.05.9 at Petro and parked at the Peartree RV Park at 4.

Time to Leave

I dropped Suz at the airport and then we hooked up and were on the road by 8:40. There was a mean headwind and we were really pushed around through Tehatchapi Pass, going by their windmills. At the top, you look across farmland to the west where they're motto is 'food grows where water flows' and the sprinklers were on. We passed the cattle yards by Kettleman City.


We saw the first of several trucks that are adding 'side panels' between their wheels. We'd seen a program of a mother fighting for this, as her daughter had been hit and fell under the wheels and lost her life.
We got to Santa Nella at 5 and boondocked next to McDonalds.

More Suzanne

I picked Suzanne up at 11 and we drove through Palm Springs where we stopped at Consuelas, the Mexican restaurant that Ron and I always went for margaritas.





Next stop was the store, Life is Good which we both firmly believe.




Then it was back to the pool for the whole afternoon which we shared with the noodle crowd and stayed until dinner. A lovely visit.

One Last Happy Hour

Deb and Peter are leaving tomorrow so here is our last get together. Joy was acting like a native as we joked around.

All Our Windmills

We,ve become so used to all the windmills in the valley, we hardly even see them anymore. Today I saw a pickup truck near one of them and this really shows how large these things are.
You'll have to double click this picture to even pick this up.

Off to the VFW

Occasionally we go to the VFW, which stands for Veterans of Foreign Wars in the U.S., very like a Canadian Legion. The local one here raises money by serving tacos and beer Wednesday for lunch and it's an easy place to gather when you have too many people to get in your rig. Suzanne went here in 2005 with Ron while I babysat the baby, so it was a repeat today with our Don and Lila crowd and most enjoyable.
Our highlight tonight was a swim and hot tub after Survivors. We found that we had to share the warm pool with our resident Mallard ducks. If you double click the picture, you'll see Suzanne swimming with the ducks.

Suzanne Arrives

What a delight. We picked Suzanne up at the airport for a visit. It is NEVER, that you get to spend a little time with your grown children without a million distractions. We hit the swimming pool and then enjoyed Jambalaya and visiting together. Enjoyed all the new pictures of the family and their day in Vancouver for the Olympics .