3 Palms Resort Oasis Scottsdale

I'm getting ready for this trip that will happen in about a month. I got a new canon camera which is a RebelT1i degital 15 pix with two lenes. They sure put me back a good many dollors.
I just hope I'm able to take great pictures. I'm making two dresses to ware and will take very
few clothes. I ...

... at each other, "Where in the world are we?"

The show was rollicking and the food, great, but you know what was the very best? During the before show entertainment we noticed this Down Syndrome girl sitting under the window writing in her workbook, grinning at nobody, singing along to herself...

Well, the singer introduced her to us. Her name is Melissa and she's the singer's sister. She had written a song and been to Nashville to record it about this ...

... s a great way to get the people who use the place to help pay for it, but it's certainly a cumbersome procedure. We're going to backtrack down the mountain to buy a pass for a parking lot we're in NOW?

I don't think so.

There are no drop boxes here like there are in campgrounds in Montana. Maybe they have more danger of vandalism and theft, I don't know the reason, but the system is screwy.

Saguaro lake is about an hour and a half from us at Sun Lakes, but only ...

... discovered, even older skeleton, were discovered and also is the home of the 4th highest mountain in Africa - Das Rashem at over 14,000 feet. Contrary to the images of drought and mass starvation that most westerners remember about Ethiopia, the country is also home to the most extensive indigenous rainforest to be found anywhere in Eastern Africa. The Central highlands are openly vegetated, green fertile and densely cultivated. The ...

... potato, green bean casserole, broccoli, cauliflower, gravy & cranberry sauce. For dessert either pumpkin or apple pie. Later Janine & I went to a huge craft shop called 'Michael's' where I 'saved' Fred 30% on all my purchases, including all the stuff that was already discounted!

For the famous Thanksgiving Day Sales, we decided to go to Toys R Us first which opened at 12am, but when we (Fred, Janine & I) got there, there was a ...

Yummy breakfast this morning with the State of Texas shaped waffles – heh heh. Naturally Fred, Josh & I had to sample them!

Hit the road by 9am and drove straight to Wilcox, Arizona where we had a rather disappointing lunch at a local Burger Joint called 'Carters' – cost us $25 for the four of us, and that was 3 small burgers (tiny by U.S size standards), 2 ...

... could show the taxi driver, i could have done with one of those in Montreal! Anyhow so everyone was sure to be on time. The landscape changed dramatically from San Diego to Scottsdale as we headed into the dessert. This was a long day on the coach, we didn't have too many days that were spent on the coach but if memory serves right i think this was one of them. We had plenty of stops along the way ...

... my pictures to put on my frame. In doing so discovered I had almost 19,000 photos on my windows Photo Galley - then going through them discovered many had duplicates, up to 7 of some photos! So I spent the rest of the day deleting all the dups-now have only 16,900! I will be doing some culling out of photos soon!! So I haven't started populating my digital frame yet. Charlie arrived home after 2, and he was tired! After a lunch and a nap we headed to Walmart for ...

... We have cruised this boat nearly 7000 nautical miles.... that is New York to LA three times or so. Wow! So what about this trip and cruising in general? Some of you who read this may be thinking of cruising or already cruise your own vessel. What is our take at this time in our cruising 'career'? First and foremost our attitude about the boat and cruising has morphed dramatically. Cruising has ...