Rock Climbing

We rock climbed today at REI sporting goods in Encinitas. They have a 30 foot rock you can take lessons on or do short climbs for free if you are a REI member. Good thing they have a safety rope. We polished off the day with lunch next door at Islands Fine Burgers. http://www.facebook.com/home.php

Sarah Palin

I just finished reading Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue". I found it hard to put the book down it was so interesting. She tells how her VP campaign team kept her from doing her "thing" sometimes. This is the real story of Sarah Palin and not the story the media gives.

Bathroom remodel progress

We're almost done with our hall bathroom remodel (actually just a facelift). The shower/tub is staying the same. It's got a new color pain job (light yellow). The floor is the same blue tile; but we replaced the toilet and are having a custom wood vanity made. We have new fancier towel bars and lighting.

Thanksgiving 2009

Our guests were the Henslers including David's girl friend, Shawni. A good time was had by all. We had turkey marinated in brine and everything else was pretty much vegan. Dan set up his HD video equipment. We had loads of desserts.

Thanksgiving prep

Today, wednesday Donna Dixon came over to help Cindy prepare for Thanksgiving dinner cooking. The turkey was prepared in a bucket of brine to marinate in the refrigerator overnite.

Korean Food

Little Sophia Boyce is 1 year old and so cute. Bob and Jeannie had the party at the Seoul BBQ Korean restaurant in Kearney Mesa. The food was quite good and had many vegetarian things.
Sophia was dressed in an authentic Korean dress. There was even a rainbow cake made from rice.

Pumpkin

Think this is a good size for Halloween?

No place like home

We arrived home yesterday afternoon from our motor home trip. We saw a lot of cool things in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and even a little of Oklahoma. We were glad when we saw the sand dunes and wind mills near El Centro welcoming us home to California.

Tucson

We spent the last few days of our trip in the Tucson area. Yesterday we visited Old Tucson which is a western movie lot that was used for hundreds of movies and tv shows until the 1980's. It is like an old ghost town. Today we took a tour of the Biosphere. It is really something to see. There is a real rain forest in there, a beach, a desert, plants, animals, machinery, living quarters and everything necessary to allow eight people to be completely self sufficient, sealed up for two and a half years.

Oct. 20- On the Road Again

After spending 5 days with Steve and Sudi we on our way to our next adventure-Biosphere 2 in Arizona. It is mostly flat boring land between Benbrook and the Biosphere, not much to see. We did run into a little lightning and thunderstorm today entering Deming, New Mexico. Tomorrow we will reach Tuson and spend a few days seeing Old Tuson and the Biosphere.

Vegan food in Benbrook

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Mike Gliebe

Today Steve, Sudi, Cindy and I went to a little country fair in Benbrook. It was free. Then we went to the only vegan restaurant in this area called the Spiro Diner and bakery. The food was pretty good but the service was slowww. Then we went to our motorhome and played some games where it's camped at Benbrook Lake. We cooked a nice vegan dinner that was better than the restaurant!

Texas State Fair

Sudi and Steve took us to the Texas State Fair in Dallas today. We ate some healthy food. There sure was a lot of deep fried food; even deep fried latte.

Amarillo

We are about 450 miles away from our final destination. We will arrive in Benbrook tomorrow.
Tonight we are spending the night in a Love's truck stop just outside of Amarillo, Texas. It was getting really foggy when we got to Amarillo. We had dinner at the Subway here. Trucks pass 15 feet away from our side window one after the other. Oh well, we save 30 bucks from not having to stay at a campground. When Cindy is driving I enjoy listening to podcasts.

From Zion, Bryce and North Rim to Benbrook

We have finished vacationing in Zion, Bryce Canyon and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We had a great time exploring the national parks. It was cold and dry and high, though. Now we are almost to Albuguerque, New Mexico on our way to Texas to visit Steve and Sudi. While there we are camping at Lake Benbrook. The top picture is when we passed the Colorado River in Arizona.

Bryce Canyon National Park

We left Zion National Park this morning exiting through a one mile tunnel built in 1930. It's not wide enough for two way traffic with a motorhome so they have to stop traffic and allow the motorhome to go through down the middle. Three hours later we arrived at Bryce and are dry camping with no hookups and it may snow tonight! We drove our car to see some of the viewpoints. Bryce has hoodoos which are eroded columns of rock on mountains. Most are red and make for fatastic scenery. Tonight we are going to a ranger talk and they will be putting telescopes out side for us to see the stars and stuff.