march 28 home

March 28 Saturday 2015 home in surrey

had a nice trip home on dry pavement thankfully. Motel in Centralia had a good breakfast including burrito and sausage and egg on English muffin. Boiled eggs, fruit cup and yogurt also plus waffles amd cereal. That lasted until lunch when we had an apple and a banana and yogurt from breakfast . We got caught with 2 HR. CRAWL just before Seattle. No problems at the border. Arrived home to a wonderful display of Spring flowers in my front yard. I already babysat last night. It was good seeing the twins they sure grow fast. Bill has gone to check the boat today I stayed home to put things back in place. Weather good so far but rain is predicted for tomorrow

heading home

Wednesday-52 degrees at 7am  sunny. a good day for driving . disappointed as Mt Shasta was covered with clouds.Everything is nice and green. As we approach Portland it tries to rain but never develops until evening. arrive in Centralia around 4 stay at a travellodge.

heading home

Tuesday March 24 
We leave Palm Desert at 7:30 am with sunshine ( God I am going to miss that ). We buck the winds all the way on I- 10 West .Wind subsides by the time we get to 210. Alt. 4144 windy as hell again temp 49 on the grape vine. Stopped at  Flying J for fuel $2.99 . Santa Nella was 73 just right. arrived at Corning 5.30 in time to go to the Olive Pit across the street. There was a 5th wheel there for the night. yes there was a sign saying RV's  welcome. 
Wednesday go down for breakfast at 6am. Bill made his own waffle. We are on our way by 6.45

desert beauties

prickly pear

barrel cactus

cholla cactus

Golleta Meadows sculptures

ghost flower

heading home Tuesday

Well the time has come to cut another Desert life on hold until next year, We are booked for next year the middle of November to middle of March, Hopefully heading down earlier and staying in Tucson for a week. I had a good time with the chief's kitchen and Sunday sounds new programs to me. I didn't do as much hiking as I would have liked but there is always next year . I had a great group of ladies for Mexician train every Monday afternoon and discovered some would like to try hiking ( nature walks) next year.  Looking forward to being with Carter and Madison and spending time on the boat maybe even to the gulf Islands. 

art festival and flower festival

this the fellow who did our roadrunner

flower festival

Friday we go to the La Quinta art festival. $15 each and $8 for parking, I was lucky as someone gave me 2 tickets. this festival was  much bigger as they had people showing from all over even Gibsons, Sechelt and  Vancouver. It was in a very good setting surrounding a small lake. We went to the Thai Smile for an early dinner with a balcony seats so we could watch the classic cars go by. Then off for the art walk and book signing. Saturday I go with Pat and Peter to the Coachella Valley Wild Flower Festival. Very well organised, they had us park at a church nearby and bused us in.We did a short hike led by a docent who explained all the plants on the Ed Hactey trail. There was a lot more booths then last year . there was also a sand sculpture creations. Randel Henderson trail next where we saw many prickley pear cactus in bloom.

book signing

 Steve Hanks book signing

book signing

March 6 Friday 2015 Palm Desert

Time is sure flying as we plan on leaving March 25

We made a fast trip to Yuma as Bill had his cap fall out. A 3 mile trip for a 15 min fix. We settled with our landlord Steve to get this place for next year for the same price next fall. Keeping busy with Mexician train here on Mondays I have 7 people so great fun. Painting group meet Thursday and I worked on Sadie a friends dog. Chief's table and Sunday sounds continue to entertain us until we leave. I am really excited as Darlene's daughter Sharon in coming to visit and is bringing our Steve Hanks book so we can get them signed at the Art Walk Friday.

Sadie