Leaving Phoenix, Reno & Sacramento behind us.

Between Las Vegas and Reno there are ammunition bunkers all over.  They are just amazing.  It looks like giant gopher hills all over.  The town is Hawthorne.  We went to Phoenix for a quick visit with Tom's sisters Clarice and Kay and then onto Reno to visit with Tom's brother Bill, where we had a slight mishap with the motor home.  Someone in the Costco gas station decided he wanted to to beat us to the exit after filling up with gas and ran into the back of our motor home.  Tom and his brother Bill, who used to be a body man was able to pull things back together so despite the cracks in the back end, if it were a car bumper, the back right corner of the motor home is broken.  It is definitely fixable.  Thank goodness for it does not affect the interior or our driving ability and after Tom and Bill got done working on it, it is not terribly noticeable. We had a nice visit with Tom's brother Bill and his wife in Reno.  From there we went to Sacramento and visited with my brother Gary and his wife Maggie who have new puppies Cooper & Charlie.  They are adorable.  We went to see Tom's brother Glenn and Janelle in Sacramento today.  They took us out for a Thai dinner this evening.  I can honestly say, I do not think I have ever had better food.  It was delicious.  YUM!! Even better than Mexican.  I love Mexican food so that is saying a lot.  We are headed for home so see you soon.

Our time in Tucson

We went to Sabina Canyon and saw a rattle snake.  I walked down on a paved road.  We chose a very beautiful day to do it.  The weather in the morning was in the mid 70's.  It was beautiful out.  My brother Jack took me and Tom to a gun range and taught me how to shoot a pistol.  I tried several.  To say that I am not a very good shot is an understatement.  If I were to be aiming at their chest, I would probably hit the person in their head.  It was an experience.  It was fun.  Tom was a very good shot with all the different guns he tried.  That was actually not very surprising to me.  I am going to try to learn left handed, so this is something I will have to work on.  We have had beautiful weather this whole last week.  We have enjoyed visiting with my brother Jack & Helen all week and now we are headed to Phoenix to visit Tom's 2 sisters.  He has a sister that lives in Phoenix and a sister that has made the trip down from North Dakota.  Talk to you soon.  Patty & Tom

San Antonio

As usual we have enjoyed our stay here and time goes by way to fast.  We came here for Easter.  Our friend Jason was so surprised to see us that his reaction was, "it is not Christmas yet.  Why are you here?"  We just informed him that we had so much fun with all of them this last Christmas that we decided to come back for Easter.  As per our usual our motor home seems to have some kind of mechanical problems when we get close to Texas.  It is like it knows it will get fixed here.  At least this time,the problems were fairly minor.  But this is why we were here for almost 2 weeks instead of 1 week.  We were waiting for some parts to come in.
     We went to the WildLife Ranch and don't even ask what all the different types of deer we saw were.  They sure were pretty though.  We also went to a "Car Showing".  Anybody that wanted to show off there care could.  It did not have to be an antique or a muscle car or a classic restored car, in fact our Geo Tracker would have fit right in.  We thought it was great.  They had a live band, and they do this every 2 weeks here.  It was  fun.
     We went to see Shirley Stewart, a friend of ours, who used to live in Cheney.  She is currently in Silver Tree Nursing and Rehab.  She just had neck and spinal surgery.  She could use your prayers.
     From here we are headed in the general direction of Tucson, possibly Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Talk to  you soon.  Patty & Tom

Universal Studios, Oh My!

We spent 3 days at Universal Studios and enjoyed all 3 days.  This way after 6 or 7 hours we went home not so wiped out that we could not function.  It was a blast.  We got to see the new Harry Potter section.  They made it pretty much like the town where he went to school.  There were so many things we enjoyed.  My favorite ride was Men in Black.  It was a ride where you had a blaster that you had to shoot aliens along the way.  It was fun.  We did it 2 times, which is how much we enjoyed it.  Tom's was the Harry Potter ride.  The one that scared me the most was the Mummy.  Nothing like riding a roller coaster in the dark and backwards.  Yeah, that is so fun, especially when you do not like roller coasters in the first place.  Like I said , overall, we had a blast.  We behaved like a couple of kids while we were at Universal.  From here we are headed to Bulverde, TX to spend Easter with Archie & Gail.  Talk to you soon.  Patty & Tom

Leaving Ja-Mar, Port Richey

We went fishing and had a lot of fun.  We also went to a jamboree while we were here.  They have had alot of entertainment for us to partake in.  Our little street has its 4:00 happy hour, which we have enjoyed.  You do not have to live on this street to partake, which is kind of nice.  As you can see, even Teddy has made lots of friends.  Bruce and Linda are his new people best friends and he really likes Keeta the little gray dog.  He tolerates Abbey.  She likes everybody.
We have so enjoyed our stay here, it is very hard to leave.  We have made some very good friends.  They even had a breakfast for us and Linda & Dave who are also leaving this morning.  They are just such nice people.  We have just felt so welcomed here.  We are like one happy family.

Port Richey, Florida

We have been enjoying ourselves so much here that I have not taken the time to do my blog.  My bad, as they say.  We went to Tarpon Springs, which is very dog friendly.  They let us take Teddy on a cruise to a beach where we could go shelling.  It was fun.  He got to sample his first run through the ocean.  He was not quite sure what to think of it.  We are staying at an RV park with a lot of people that are from Pennsylvania  Michigan, Ontario, New York, etc., we are the only people in this whole park west of the Appalachian Mountains.  We are considered a rare breed of duck, shall we say.  For the most part, the weather has been wonderful.  We have had the occasional cool day.  But it is usually in the 70's or low 80's.  We like this kind of weather.  We definitely could get used to this, yes we could.  We are currently located on the party street in this RV park.  Go figure.  They had a USA day while we have been here, with a parade and big picnic afterwards, that was a lot of fun.  They have a horse racing game that Tom does very well at, me not so much.  Overall we have been enjoying ourselves very much.  We went to a Strawberry Festival, which is like a Fair, and I met Elsie the Cow, from Borden's Milk.  Teddy got sunglasses so now he is a cool dude.  We spent an afternoon on the pier in St. Petersburg and went to their aquarium and went out to lunch.  Like I said we have just been enjoying ourselves.  There are so many things to do.  I think we are going ocean fishing this week yet.