Sunday Nov. 25 2012

 It's been a fun week here in Los Barriles.  Tuesday was the big Independence Day parade in town.  It was so fun to see all the kids dressed up like Revolutionists! There were so many parents walking along with their kids that I could hardly get a few shots of them.  On the Friday night before, there was the crowning of the Queen in the new local park.  We went at about 8 pm. when things were supposed to get started.  Well, we Gringos forgot that 'time' is Mexico is somewhat different than 'time' in USA.  The carnival booths were set up and there were a few other 'gringos' walking around or eating, but nothing else was happening.  The music and events didn't really get started until about 9pm.  The same thing happened for the parade.  This time tho, we took our chairs, sat on the sidewalk and had a frappe'.!  The parade that was supposed to start at 8 a.m started about 9 am..  The other big event this week happened on Thanksgiving morning - Roger picked up his quadrunner.  It's a bright red Polaris  and has only 500 miles on it!  The shot in front of the houses at the beach was taken the day he got it.  The shot on the beach  at sunrise was taken today.  Too much Fun!!  I am also including a photo of the front of 'our' house.,  Our covered driveway is on the right and you can barely see the top floor palapa deck on the right.  The side opposite the front door faces the sea and town.  We had a great Thanksgiving with friends in an rv park just outside of town.  Danny and Linda Peterson came down with us on the first rv caravan trip.  They bought a site in a nice park and we enjoyed the day very much.  Well, that wraps up this week.  We hope you all are feeling good and having a good time!  we are.... happy trails.....

A Long Trip!

Roger tells me we have travelled some 2781  miles since leaving Enumclaw to arrive here in Los Barriles, Baja.  When we left Casa Grande summer of 2012, we headed to South Dakota to get our drivers license renewed, and see our "home town" of Madison, SD.  From there we headed north, visited Glacier Nat'l Park, stopped at Little Diamond Thousand Trails park, heading west to Enumclaw to visit family and friends.  Course we had all the usual visits to our fav docs too!  My sister Nancy and her husband Lon moved to WA from CA this summer so we got a visit in with them before we headed south.  We also got to do a camp out with our golf buddies in Raymond, WA as well as a great potluck with the same group.  Hard as it was to do, leaving all these good folks, we headed south to Casa Grande to open our park model for the season.  Again, so fun to see all our AZ friends and neighbors!  Our goal was to dump everything we would need in Baja on the deck, put the motor home in storage, toss what we could (always trying to pare out "stuff"!) load up the Jeep and leave on 10/29/12 for the Baja....One night in Yuma to cross to Algodones for visas and pesos, then 2 more nights, pulling into Los Barriles on Nov 1,2012...  4 days early as it turns out!  Oh we'll, it's Mexico and it was fine.  Seems we need to check our notes more carefully when making long range plans!  We are happy in our casa and settled in pretty well. I've posted photos of friends and family, Kevin's birthday party, Roger's birthday party, wet scoccer games, our 9 & Dine campout, and views from our casa decks here in LB.  We have some happy trails....