We have spent a wonderful week here in Kino Bay (we will be back)
Asta La Vista Bahia Kino.
Next stop San Carlos!!!

These are the sights around Kino Bay I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed the scenery. We ended the day watching the sunset and drinking margaritas at Jorges on the beach- What a life......

Hermisillo, Sonora, Mexico

Hermisillo is known for its Sonora Beef and CarneAsada

We went looking for the best CarneAsada, I think we may have found it
Look at the size of the torillias

This is the beach behind our campground.

Some of the best tortillias come from this little shop

Our Superbowl Party. We bought some shrimp, scallops and sea bass and grilled them up and ate them with fresh tortillas and some cervesa!!!

Our morning beach walk not a sole on the beach
but us......







Murphy was checking out the water








We passed this beach house this morning on our walk
I just loved all the bright colors

Kino Bay RV Park

We arrived in Kino Bay this afternoon. We are very happy with the campground we chose. The drive in was great the roads were much better than I had expected and the scenery was just wonderful. We spent about an hour at KM 21 getting all our papers in order, then we were on our way. We did run into some fog early this morning, but after the fog cleared it was clear sailing.

Jorges on the Beach

I told you we would be in town just in time for happy hour

John & Betsy Crawford and us.

Our Mexico Adventure Begins

and no adventure begins without a trip to Walmart to stock up. We are leaving early tomorrow morning and should be in Kino Bay just in time for Happy Hour.....

Adios

Boomers in Q at an Almost Willie Concert

and he could almost sing like Willie. We had a great Texas BBQ dinner then enjoyed a little music. What a great afternoon we had.

Bottom Row; Frank & Gretchen Knapp, Willie, Cathy Oppie Top Row; John Crawford, us, Betsy Crawford, Frank & Gretchen, and Cecil Oppie.

Newmar Rally Quartzsite 2007
This little piggy did not make it to market- He was dinner tonight.... YUMMO
We really enjoyed our first Newmar rally there were about 300 Newmar RVs. The entertainment at night was fantastic, the meals were caterd and very tasty, we met some wonderful folks and joined the fulltimers chapter.
Next stop BOOMERVILLE....

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I hope your holidays were great!!! We finished up with Christmas Trees we had a lot of fun working this season. We are now in Yuma out in the middle of the desert with our Boomer friends for the New Years, had a festive New Years Eve celebration complete with fireworks- Thanks to Boomer friends Barry & Jan. Normally the weather here is great, but, today we are in the middle of a dust storm- maybe tomorrow will bring calmer winds and then we start to clean up all the dust, just in time for another dust storm- We are heading into Mexico Bahia Kino on February 1st for a month. When we come out of Mexico we are heading to Las Vegas for NASCAR were we will be working for a week in the RV lot!!!! What a life!!!

Well here we are in Pleasanton Ca at our christmas tree lot. The lot is now decorated and we are ready to go. John is having a great time learning how to flock a tree. For those of you who are unfamilar with flocking - You spray white stuff that resembles snow onto the trees- people go crazy for it. I am not sure if its a California thing or not. John and I would like to wish all of you a very joyous HOLIDAY and a Happy New Year. 2007 will take us to Mexico, and the Indy 500 race- Stay tuned......

Notice the trees on the ground the wind is not our friend- we will have the trees back on their feet again just in time for the wind to return- ahh the joys of the christmas

John has achieved the title of Master Flocker

Moving these flockers can be a real pain- By the way that is my Son who came to work for us this season

Bring on the customers we are ready

Open and ready for business

Our lot before the trees arrived

Our finished projects- Looks like a candy cane to me....

The two Johns painting candy canes

Cathy & Betsy painting candy canes for our lots

We are back in California for the holidays. We spent Halloween with my son and his family. It had been quite awhile since I went out with small children trick or treating- we had so much fun. Jeffery came away with a ton of candy, my first thought was glad I don't have to pay dental bills- Then I quickly relized- that thought made me feel so old- its halloween - let them eat chocolate!!! This Christmas season we are going to be managing a christmas tree lot in Pleasanton CA . This will be our 4th year doing this type of work and we really enjoy it, the families and most people are in great moods besides it is a really fun job- I will try to get some pictures posted of our tree lot. Until then stay safe and healthy.....

This is my sons house in Modesto CA all decorated for the trick or treaters.

This is my 4 month old grandson, the cutest lilttle scarcrow, with his mother ( Stephanie my daughter in law)

Isn't this a scary face, this is my 6 year old grandson

We finished crabbing and we did very well we will have crab well into next year!! We moved about 50 miles down the coast to Coos Bay the weather today has been beautiful with lots of sunshine. We drove to Charleston a small fishing community and found Sunset Bay State Beach with wonderful hiking trials and a beautiful bontanical gardens that we enjoyed this afternoon. We also stumbled on Sampsons Reef, where there were a ton of sea lions at least three different types. We ended up in Bandon for lunch at a small chowder house. I hope you enjoy the pictures of our hike this afternoon..... Until next time-

Bay Trail at Sunset Bay State Beach

View Point

Sunset Bay Trail View Point

View from the Sunset Bay Trail

From the Rose Garden in the Botanical Gardens

Sunset Bay Botanical Gardens

Hello from Winchester Bay Oregon!!

We have been crabbing for several days John has been going out with Chuck twice a day and checking crab traps bringing in the catch and I have been cookin and a pickin and a grinen. We plan on hanging out in Oregon for the next week or so -as long as the crabs are hungry we will be here to make sure they get fed. We are having a GREAT TIME!!!

Chuck and John with two monster crabs they caught early this morning.

Todays catch

All cleaned and ready for the steamer pot

Hello from the Santa Cruz BeachBoardwalk-

Debbie & Gilles- We celebrated her birthday on the boardwalk by enjoying corn dogs we had a wonderful day- I think she had a great birthday.

Santa Cruz Boardwalk-

View of the boardwalk from the pier

Coconut Grove at Santa Cruz In its heyday this was a happen place.....

Sailboat passing by while we were enjoying drinks