OUT n ABOUT IN TEMECULA, CA
Couple of weeks exploring Temecula's back roads.

We spent a few afternoons wine tasting. Unlike Napa most of the wineries in Temecula are boutique wineries, wines are only available at the winery and they only produce a small quanity of each varietal and when its gone it GONE!! I did get a few surprises of what I thought I didn't like, I loved!!! Because these are boutique wineries wine tasting can be rather expensive $8-10 per person. The Temecula Visitors Center online had some great information and we were able to download 2 for 1 tasting coupons along with a map of all the wineries and tasted some wonderful wines, champagnes, ports, and sherrys. One afternoon we found ourselves in Old Town Temecula and did what was a first for us was Olive Oil/Balsamic vinegar tasting- our favorite was an olive oil infused with blood oranges and for balsamic vinegars a vanilla fig infused balsamic. All locally made here in California. Then one afternoon a drive in the country and we found the Gouda Cheese factory that was made famous by Wolfgang Puck. We did some Gouda Cheese tasting and a tour. The cheese was very gouda!! :)
For more pictures of our visit to Temecula http://picasaweb.google.com/jcrobnik/Temecula



Wilson Creek Winery Great almond champagne & ports actually we had Portini there- equal parts of their signature champagne (almond) and port. Very good!!!



The hamburger stand below is in Old Town and obviously a favorite of bikers. We stopped there for lunch and I could understand why. This restaurant boasts the honor of being number 1 in the great California hamburger hunt!!! It would get my vote!!!

Boomer Cruise to Cabo San Lucas

February 4-8, 2008

Carnival Cruise Ship Elation setting sail for Cabo with 40 plus boomers on board. There was plenty of food, drink and entertainment to keep us all pretty busy!!! Several birthday celebrations and happy hours on ship. This was not your ordinary Boomer-Rang.
I took so many pictures that I couldn't post them all here click this link for an online web album.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jcrobnik/BoomerCruise



Boomers in Formal Attire- We all clean up pretty darn nice....


Boomers invade Cabo and have tacos and beer


As the sun sets over Cabo we set sail for San Diego

Puerto Penasco, Mexico

We did a caravan with Newmar to Puerto Penasco and we had a wonderful week of food, entertainment, happy hours, shopping/bargin hunting, meeting lots of new people, and looking for the best fish tacos we could find. We took so many pictures I couldn't post all of them here so I created a web album click on this link if you are interested in viewing more pictures. http://picasaweb.google.com/jcrobnik/Mexico08

Below is a picture of the shoreline from Lighthouse Hill. It had been 5 years since John and I were in Puerto Penasco and we were surprised at how fast all the condos
had been built where campgrounds used to be.



Shopping District


View from Lighthouse Hill- the downtown area

Our final night we were all treated to Mexican Coffee- and yes, it tasted just as good as it looks.

Next our cruise to Cabo San Lucas

Welcome to BOOMERVILLE 2008

Where Boomerville is just getting started Happy Hours at 4, walks, talks, eating, swap meets where if it can't be found, it just doesn't exsist, and more eating. The object is too see how long you can make 100 gal of water last before you have to get more. The last one out shuts off the lights until next year....

Once a year the sleepy little town of Quartzite Arizona that is invaded by literly thousands of RVer. Below are pictures of Boomerville the town is in the distance- those are all RVS

Hello from the FMCA Rally in Indio

Where the temperatures are in the mid 70's and we are having a great time meeting lots of new folks, attending seminars, and of course buying and more buying of "stuff". We in remodel mode and have decided to replace our front TV and cabinet with a new sleeker cabinet which will include a 37 inch LCD HDTV, then we are replacing our front window shades with the MCD American Duo System I am superduper jazzed about that. We are going to Junction City, OR in March to have the work done. John is getting the Silver Leaf System installed in our Motorhome its an vehicle monitoring/diagnostic system dohicky thing that is a must have (according to John) he is all excited about this new gadget.


Below are some pictures from the parade- you can tell FUN was the order of the day!!
Some of the chapters get together and decorate their golf carts, build floats, wear costumes, and -well you can see below how much fun it was.......



Oops- grass skirt was not big enough :)

Next Stop Puerto Penasco, Mexico

Happy New Year from Reno!!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

John and I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! See ya next year!!!

Our travel plans for 2008 include; San Felipe Baja Mexico, Cruise to Cabo San Lucas, FMCA Rally in Pomona, CA, where we will be representing Cherry Hill Park in the Marketplace, touring the Atlantic Maritimes, and whatever else we can find that strikes our interest along the way!

Opening day was yesterday. This is the entrance into our lot.


Rows and rows of trees looking for warm homes. We hope each and every tree finds a home!!

This is the inside of our tent and John has been flocking away!!

FAMILY TIME

After pumpkins we headed to Reno to have an early Thanksgiving with my daughter and her boyfriend and his children, my son and his family came up we had a wonderful time together and it had been a long time since we all got together.
Below is Wayne, Jadeon, Stephanie and Cami.



Below is a picture of my son Larry, me, Grandson Jeff, and daughter Stephanie. We had just had a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner. November is a very busy month for our family besides Thanksgiving we have 4 birthdays to celebrate.

Steph and John clowning around with Cosmo the dog (aka Costco)

FROM PUMPKINS TO TREES......

Its over- all the pumpkins have been sold, the petting zoo is closed and now its time to clean up the lot and get it ready for trees. This has been a very interesting month we learned a lot about the zoo animals we have chased the pig when he got out at least 5 times, roped the goat we he escaped, dropped a box of chickens and had to chase them around the pin and finally caught all 10 of them, the rabbits had a night out on the patch until we caught them!!! I wished I had the camera for some our most exciting moments, but I think if I told John to wait so I could take pictures of him chasing the pig- you would all be attending services for ME!!! Anyway it is over and we did survived as did the animals! Next week we are headed to Reno to spend sometime with my daughter, should be back just in time for tree delivery. We are really looking forward to the Christmas season!!!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!!!


Getting the lot ready for Trees

Petting Zoo at the Pumpkin Patch


Meet Wilbur he is "Some Pig" that is what Charlotte said. Personally I think he is a goat in Pig skin...... Wilbur refuses to eat his pig food wants only the goat food!!! Notice the little chicks in the pen I bring them in every nite because they are too little we put them in a box under a heat lamp.


Meet Mr Goat and Mrs Goat they can't eat the goat food because the pig won't let them, so they eat the pig food and when the pig is sleeping then they eat the goat food, and eat the corn stalks and eat whatever they can find.......

Meet "Farmer" John- he fixes the cages and builds shelter so the animals have a dry place to be when it rains he also is very good with a shovel in the mornings and I feed the animals and make sure they have plenty of water......
Now you have seen the pumpkin patch that Farmer John and his wife Cathy built........

PUMPKIN PATCH

After 7500 miles this summer we are right back where we started in California! We arrived at our pumpkin lot. John is building a pad for the motorhome. Looks like he is having fun on the John Deer!!

Wow now thats a lot of pumpkins 40 bins all over the lot- Now how do you suppose all those pumpkin bins are going to get emptied??


I think the scarecrows did it. There are pumpkins of all colors and sizes



We now open and ready for business... Wish us luck!!!

32nd Annual
Nappanee Apple Festival

First stop on our way west was Nappanee Indiana for some repairs on our Motorhome (again), and we were here just in time for the Apple Festival. Below is a 7 Foot Apple Pie 450 pounds of apples and it took 17 hours to bake. To bring the pie into the restaurant a wall had to be removed!! It took a large oven to bake this pie and there are only 4 of these large oven in the world and Nappanee just happens to have one.

Every festival has marching bands and this town is no exception.

Boomers were in town and we meet and enjoyed the festival together and then had lunch at Hunters Hideway!!

September 11, 2007

As one adventure ends, another one begins........

What a fabulous summer we have had in Maryland. We are leaving Cherry Hill Campground in the morning, its a bittersweet experience. Cherry Hill Campground is a first class campground and we are proud we were part of the team if only for a short while. The folks we have worked with have been a lot of fun, we have seen so many sights and the weather has been fantastic , we have eaten Maryland Blue Crab, and we did extensive research to find the best of the best crabcakes. We have a winner http://www.timbukturestaurant.com/index.html

On to our next adventure.... this fall we have decided to manage a Pumpkin Lot, in Saratoga, CA . We don't know too much about what this will entail, except we do know it involves pumpkins, scarecrows and a petting zoo we all know what animals do !! YIKES!!! Stay Tuned......

I hope that you all had the most fantastic summer!!!!

Clam Bake

Summer is just about over the weather is getting cooler and it is just about time for us to start heading west soon!! We cooked a fabulous seafood dinner tonight and enjoyed every morsel!!!

Williamsburg, VA
Busch Gardens, Europe

This week we headed to Busch Gardens Amusement park it has been a long time since we had been to an amusement park. Great rides, excellent food, high energy shows, and a beautifully clean park we had a ball spent two days inside the park..... We did do the Brewmasters Club, you go into a private room and taste beers -this is not your ordinary beer tasting from about two dozen different brews you pick four to taste (that was a hard one) then you are served crackers, cheese, grapes, strawberrys, and chocolates and the tasting begins, I almost thought I was wine tasting. GREAT experience!!! Actually learned a lot about beer and food pairings.



John the Pizza Head


The Adventure Begins........