Meet our bud Bonita of Pender Harbour. Just look at this lady. Now look beyond the icing. Check out that smile. Yeah, tonight she’s enjoying her birthday party but that grin is permanent. We’ve only known her for a couple of months, but I’m sure we have never seen her without that smile.
We had a little shindig to celebrate her 39th with about a 16 of her closest local friends last night.
Same routine as usual: Water taxi to downtown Mazatlan, jam 14 people in a little red truck designed to carry max 10, ride to restaurant, a couple of drinks, way too much food, repeat red truck and repeat water taxi back to Stone Island. Rest.
Hi Larry,yes that road to Durango is something else.Lee and I came back that way when we came back from Cancun to Cabo.From Durango to Mazatlan it was about 7 hours if I remember right.Also you missed nothing by not going to Durango,that the place where we had to stay in that motel were they lock you in for the night,and have Dogs on the roofs to stop anyone from getting in over the top!………Garth
We are sitting in the Pacific Border RV Park, in fact we have been since last Friday. We are right on the Canadian/US border, the park is on Zero avenue and we are ready for the next part of this adventure. Before we move on though, we need to take a minute and reflect on what we have accomplished so far. We talked about our visit to all in Alberta and how great that was, in fact we are still talking about it. The highlight obviousy was the time we spent with Tracy, Mike, Cameron and Abby but it was all amazing.
We lived in BC for a lot of years, so this part of the trip has been away down memory lane, both with the places and the people. In Kamloops we caught up with my sister Leila and her hubby Bob, in Kelowna we had lunch with Vern & Gertie Sandquist, lot’s of catching up there. The old memory train was working over time in Chiliwack, our kids were going through their formative years when we lived there, and then we moved down to this park. Since we have been in Surrey we caught up with Garth & Lee, my aunt Molly and her family in Courtnay. We also connected with Hilda Harder, Cheryl Quinton, Karl & Kathy Hibbs and last night, Anne and Steen Salomon. We have been where we used to live, shop, run,play and just gaze at the stars. It’s been grand!
Today we will have that last look around Vancouver, a very definite soft spot in our hearts, before we prepare to break camp and step accross that so close border. And so we will end the memory part of this trip.
Where next we ask, as we look at the atlas? As much as we have enjoyed meeting all these people, the next 10 days or so we will be on our own and that’s good too. After 29 years she’s still my favorite girl and I think some days she likes me a lot too.
So pack a sandwich, tomorrow we are back on the road.
Meet Clark Snell. He’s the father of our daughter-in-law Elizabeth. That makes us inlaws, I can only hope some of his skills will rub off on me. Clark and his wife Gwen live in Hanna, Alberta.
He says he’s just learning to work with wood, I can’t imagine what he will accomplish when he really gets going. I’ve introduced you to a couple of other folks who spend their spare time working with wood and they both do neat stuff , remember Fran and Gene, but Clark’s attention to detail and knowledge of the subjects he is creating is quite amazing.
To this point he is pretty much self taught but has recently joined a club where he can interact with other wood carvers.
I wish I had a better shot of this hawk. The detail and coloring are amazing! As you can see, the hawk’s sights are set on the poor little rabbit. He’s about to become lunch.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Hi Larry,yes that road to Durango is something else.Lee and I came back that way when we came back from Cancun to Cabo.From Durango to Mazatlan it was about 7 hours if I remember right.Also you missed nothing by not going to Durango,that the place where we had to stay in that motel were they lock you in for the night,and have Dogs on the roofs to stop anyone from getting in over the top!………Garth
February 10th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Ooh! I am sorry we did not see the spine, but no so sorry we missed Durango. Sounds like downton Miami.