One of the nifty advantages of being a volunteer is the ability to say, “Oops, we need to go off for a couple weeks, see ya.” That is what we are doing to Renee and Neil this week. Judy and I have been working weekends and evenings with them on their “Project House. Continue reading Time Out
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Coming Home:
This is something different. We are home, but we don’t have a house to come back to. We are always home, because home is Arcturus, and Arcturus is an Alpine motor home. By a different thought, however, home is where all of your best friends are. This is where we are this week. We have been visiting with the friends of our church, the friends that we worked with and friends that have been neighbors over the years. Continue reading Coming Home:
A Busy Week
Camping and having fun can be hard work! This past week we met Glen, Barb, Cody, Patrick and Bryce and one of their friends, Derrick, at the State Park at Clear Lake California. The first two days were rainy, but that went away and we had lovely sunshine and temperatures up to the mid seventies for the rest of the week. Continue reading A Busy Week
A Mater of Timing:
Well California is still being lashed by a new storm about every three to four days. We get a couple nice days then wham! Today was the day. We decided to make this a travel day and drove the fifty miles over to Monterey California. The rains caught up with us about the time we hit highway one. We rolled into the Elks parking lot campground just before noon and by the time we had paid our fees it was pouring. Continue reading A Mater of Timing:
Dante’s View:
O.K. you have probably been asking yourself over the past few years, “What is Dante’s view of things?” To answer that question your advance exploration party, Judy, Gary and Sue Owen traveled from the depths of Death Valley, some 260 feet below sea level to Dante’s View, an overlook for the Death Valley area at an elevation of 5,475 feet. Continue reading Dante’s View: