Alaska Cruise!!

We are in kayaks in Sitka Harbor. It was a wonderful two hr paddle in the harbor and had our friends, Ron & Donna Daly along in their kayak.

Here we are at Mendelhall Glacier after doing about a 1 mile hike in the area. Which was only about 5 miles from Juneau.

Our first stop and as far North as we went was to Glacier Bay National Park. We spent about 3 hrs. in the bay taking pictures, etc. The weather was OK with no rain and a few rays of sun.The ship you see in the picture was a small ship that was in front of us.

Summer still Struggles along!

8-17-11 - Well as usual we are behind with our blog postings. Not sure where the summer is going and the weather has been hit and miss. We seem to only get a day or two of nice weather and then clouds, wind, etc. I think we have had only a couple of dates in the 80's and the rest of the summer has been in the60, 70's. We are the only place in the country with a cool summer and I guess it could be worse.

We did manage to make it over to Keller Ferry Camping with our family. This is something we have been doing for about 35 years. This year the lake was really high from all the snow last winter. So that meant there were no beaches to go to without lots of looking. Still had a great time with a smaller group this year. We arrived on July 22 and then had to leave on July 28th to rush home. As we had a very important date to catch a Cruise Ship in Seattle on the 29th. The cruise will be in the next posting.

Summer has finially arrived!!

7-06-11 - Well summer has finally arrived and I think we hit a high of 85 degrees today. Did a bike ride to Edaleen Dairy for one of those good ice-cream cones. Then on the way home we stopped by and seen good friends who live in Lynden and winter in Yuma, AZ.

Had a nice talk and then they were off to a picnic, since her brother was leaving tomorrow. But we have had a great day and have enjoyed our nice weather.

Where did June go!!

July 3, 2011 - Well I'm not sure where the Month of June went. We arrived home on the 1st of June. Have been busy doing yard catch up. Then in the mix my sister Cheryl sold her house, so that meant a lot of packing things into boxes and Ione did most of her packing. Then there was a large garage sale which went well.

Then on 30th of June the U-Haul truck showed up at her doorstep with yours truly at the wheel at about 8:30 AM. The moving went well with about 4 men and 4 ladies present to keep things moving. I took back the truck at about 3 PM. So everything found it's way to her new home, a Condo hear the Lynden Fairgrounds. Now all she has to do is get everything on packed, wow! What a job.

Being the 4th of July weekend we have already had a rain front come through, then some sun and also don't forget the wind. It has been a typical 4th weekend in the Pacific Northwest. We don't have anything big planned for tomorrow the 4th. So will just enjoy and appreciate all our freedoms we having and are celebrating the same with the help of all our brave servicemen and women. It's great to live in a free country and we all know it doesn't come free, without our Service people.

We're Home!!

June 1, 2011 - After traveling a total of 1,574 miles we pulled into our driveway here in Lynden, WA at about 5 PM, Wednesday the 1st of June.

We were greeted to cold and rainy weather as we got home, so what else is new. This spring has been the pits in Northwest Washington. The moss and weeds love this wet weather as it shows it on the lawns in our town.

We didn't have too many problems with the new coach we now have. Have a list to have addressed on the 17th of June at Camping World. But the Cat 350 just kept going at we headed home from Sunny AZ. We do have a sunny day today and yesterday was also nice. So maybe we will have some summer here after all.

We have lots of work ahead of us to get the yard in shape, etc. So why do we do this every year, well I guess we really enjoy the AZ weather and all the good friends we have there. So we are in the summer mode now with our family and home town friends. We are really blessed and won't do it any other way.

Family Arrived!

5-28-11 - We woke up this morning to some clouds and some sun. There is a storm coming and we aren't looking forward to it.

Lisa, Dwayne and Evan flew in from Bothell on Friday evening and arrived here in Reno about 10:30 PM. We heard from Lisa Sat morning about 10:30 and they were at breakfast. Then she called back and were coming to our RV Park. They stopped and we had a good talk and planned our day.

Did some looking around the city. Then Evan's team played there first game at Wooster High School which is located right near Hwy 395. They won the first game by about 30 points. Then we had a break until the next game scheduled at 5:10. So got something to eat at the Boston Market, which was a first time there and food was good.

Team then played their second game and same result as we won by about 30 points. Evan hasn't been playing because of back and neck problems. I think he has been growing too fast and could have brought on these problems. He has grown about 6 inches in the last year and a halve.

Then after the game we went to a show at the Eldorado Hotel & Casino called the "Alluminair". The theater was full and the show was great. It had a none stop show that ran for 1 hr. and 20 minutes. The color and lights we awesome. Some of the acts were just out of this world and well worth our money. That's it for now.

We're in Reno, NV!

5-27-11 - After spending three days on the road and a total of 711 miles. We arrived at the silver Sage RV Park in Reno, NV. on Friday the 27th about 3:45 PM.

We had a good trip from Happy Trails with our first stop was at the Beatty RV Park just about a hundred miles north of Vegas on hwy 95. The park was really nice, $25 per night full hook-ups, great restrooms, the shower was all tiled and large. Our night there was great.

Next day we made it to Walker Lake on hwy 95 north of Beatty 200 plus miles. We placed in our usual spot looking over the lake. The weather was sunny but did get wind later in the evening. Had a wiener roast and nice fire. We just love these outside outings.

Have had a few problems with our new coach and are keeping a list. Then when we get home will will have Camping World in Burlington take care of things.