Quality Inn & Suites Mesa

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 ...

... you know--or FISHERs for crying out loud. It's needed downstream for golf courses n' stuff. Important stuff. Oh, don't get me started.

But that's Roosevelt lake--more of that on another day.

Anytime I'm by water I'm happy, but today, with my toes in the riffles, I'm truly in heaven. I haven't sprung for an Arizona fishing license since we're only here two months, but today just watching the fly fishermen was enough.

It truly is another world down by the water.

... Jewish population until the mid-80's when Mengistu overthrew Salassie and during the great famine of 1985 thought it was also a good time to try to wipe them off the face of the earth. The Israeli government with aid from the US, airlighted some 30,000 individuals - almost the total survivors of the various wars and persecution they endured in the late 20th century. Much of the history and architecture in the 'northern circuit' is ...

We leave for Ethiopia on December 15th and are getting very excited. This is one of the first steps
towards keeping friends and family updated while we are gone.
This is our first trip to an African country so we are extra excited for a completely different experience.

... was COLD. I finally put the electric blanket back on the bed and that helped me get to sleep. It was 45 degrees when I got up at 7:30. I know no one else gets excited about a 45 temp, but here with only light bedding it does feel cold! And when I got up this morning I turned on the furnace. I was going caching today with Glenda and Ken, but a nascar race and a football game in the area we were going convinced us to stay home and go next Saturday. The traffic will be really ...

First, relax and sit down.  For what I am about to tell you may be very hard to believe.  In fact, when I say it, I bet nobody will believe it.  I have suddenly become a billionaire.  I have come into 100 billion dollars to be exact.  See, I told you that you don't believe me, but it is absolutely true.  Here is how it happened.  I was on a shuttle bus that was taking me to Jo’burg airport ...

... to do it.  Why not?  In a nut shell, and I'm going to totally rip off (in the past tense) Nat Geog Traveler magazine's tag line here, I "dreamt it, planned it, and did it".   So here was the dream - travel Africa in an old series (1970s style) Land Rover, seeing wildlife, people, places, and taking loads and loads of photographs.  I was going to be the great white hunter, but shooting pictures, not bullets, yeah thats right, the ...

... Lake Havasu to Mesa was beautiful. We got on a back road that was all hay fields and really green. Unfortunately we got to the Phoenix area right at rush hour and that was hair raising. Driving this rig with the car in tow has been easier than I anticipated but is really nerve racking when in the middle of the freeway rush hour. Luck was with us I guess as we only had one occasion where we had to stand on the brakes - I ...

... do. Take the time to ask your kids what they find most interesting and be sure that at least one of each kid's point of interest is included in your itinerary. Start off your Colorado road trip through ...