Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Better late than never


Yes we arrived home three months to the day on April 3 to wind, rain and cold but no snow, YEA!!!  It is now the 21st of April and either I'm getting used to the weather or it is actually getting warmer.  Fruit trees are in blossom and the rhododendrons are in bloom.  I did a sail from Sidney to Victoria with my buddy Darch the other day and now Deb & I are busy just doing spring things (WORK).  I'll just do a photo summary of the beach and add some of the trip home.  We had a great time at Joshua Tree State Park (no pics), Morro Bay (no pics) and San Francisco where we stayed across the bay at Larkspur of San Quentin fame, and took the ferry across to downtown San Francisco.  The last couple of days I’ve been working on the boat, getting her ready for the season.
 Lunch at Santa Inez
Sunset at Santa Inez
and a cactus at Santa Inez
Deb playing on the beach at Cielito Lindo
                                                                   
Now we're in San Francisco and it's COLD
Alcatraz and the not so Golden Gate 
 Crabcakes at fishermans Wharf
 And breakfast on the sidewalk in Sausalito
 Yikes!!  a few days later at Castle Crags in northern California.....BRRRRRRR!
 Can somebody tell me what these guys are up to???

 And these guys really need to see a good Dentist!!!
 Full Moon at Coyote Beach in January
 Look out below, I'm comin down.

 A lesson in sharing.

 Some cool dudes.

 And of course if you're gonna party ya gotta have Blue Shoes.
I'll sort out a few pictures of the beach and post them later.
Here is our sailboat "Puffin" where we will spend  a lot of the next few months. This was taken in the Copeland Islands in Desolation Sound.
Hasta luego 
Juan

Friday, April 2, 2010

pictures???

Bummer!  We had a problem with the camera - about 300 are missing or something..... something weird happened and who knows where those great shots are??  Hiking in Joshua Tree Park, Sunsets at Morro Bay, the new baby in Santa Cruz (believe me, she is a cutie), and day 1 in San Francisco, all gone!  So sad.... no photo post this time

The happy part is we are having a great trip home - not many glitches - the little incident with the high curb and the trailer step...... and yesterday another flat tire on the trailer.  If you remember back to our trip south, we had a flat in Oregon, and this one was again in Oregon about 50 miles from the last one! go figure?