Thursday,Aug. 14,2008

Hello All!
Mike and I (and of course, Ginger too!) left our "home" in Lake Elsinore on Tues. morning to begin our adventure. Our neighbors-and good friends for the past 3 years gave us a wonderful,loving-and teary eyed-send off. We drove to Kingsburg and spent the night at our familiar camp on the road-Riverland. We have stayed there a few times before-and have always been so happy to be there. this time,however-we had a fun surprise. While getting settled in for the evening-here comes a big red Ford truck-and the driver was none less than our former Lake Elsinore neighbor-and friend, AJ. He is working in the area, and he and Cathy and Kona have been staying at Riverland for the past few weeks. We had a good visit-this is truly a small world-and it was so nice to see them. pictures to follow as soon as I can figure out how to post them.
Wed. morning we took off again and landed in Arbuckle-home to my Aunt and Uncle-MaryLou and Leo Howe. We parked our huge home on their street-and were told it was the largest thing ever to be parked on King St. We caught up on family news, then went out to dinner in downtown Arbuckle-had a good mexican dinner, then a tour of the old and new Arbuckle-it has grown so much over the years and it was fun seeing everything thru the eyes of my Aunt and Uncle. We got up this morning and drove to Redding for a day of chilling and-well-blogging and catching up on stuff for the week. We are camped right on the Sacramento river and Ginger is so excited to see ducks and geese right outside in her "yard".
We are looking forward to seeing everyone up here,and maybe getting in some fishing too!
This great adventure-journey-is just getting started-we are so excited to be able to do this-and share it with you all too!
Ginger says hey, and we send our love!
Mike,Jan and Ginger