Wednesday January 31, 2007 yesterday we left the 1000 Trails in Soledad Canyon and drove to the 1000 Trails in San Diego but couldn't stay there. It was so far back in the hills, outside of San Diego, that they had NO phone service, well you know that doesn't work for Dave since he needs that phone for work. We found a park in Lakeside, Rancho Los Coches RV Park, and are staying here until Saturday. The reason we came to San Diego is so that Dave could go into the office for work, he needs to show his face at least once every couple years.
Last Sunday, in Canyon Country, Valley and I went walking for 5.5 miles in the early morning then came back and got ready to drive to Simi Valley. We got together with Brad and Diane and went to El Patio for lunch then drove over and visited with Jodi, Riley, and Hutch for a little while. David Jr. had just left for San Diego for work, Jodi had just dropped him off at Amtrack. Monday we had to drive back down to Simi again because Valley had a vet appointment and Dave had an appointment for a blood test. Valley we dropped off then headed for David and Jodi's to hang out there where Dave could work from while we waited for Valley to get done. We were hoping to see more people but it's hard on a Monday while everyone's at work, oh well next time. Valley ended up staying until 4 p.m., a lot later then we thought, then we headed back to the coach to get ready to leave on Tuesday morning.
Will write later about our stay in Lakeside.

Saturday, January 27, 2007 today was a driving day. We left Fort Mohave/Bullhead City this morning and got to Soledad Canyon 1000 Trails this afternoon. Really big park here, could do a lot of walking if we were going to be here long enough, but we aren't going to be so will try and do as much as I can while we are here. Haven't really been doing any walking most of this week because I have been sick, and trying to take it easy so I can get over this. The other day Dave and I did go to the movies at AVI Casino and saw "Dream Girls" boy what a movie, that Jennifer has one hell of a voice. We can see why she has been named and has won some awards already.
Bye for now

Sunday January 21st, 2007. Well, we moved again today after breakfast to our new campsite for the next week. We went from Nevada to Arizona all within 10 min. and from one campsite to another. We are now in Bullhead City/Fort Mohave Arizona staying at Riverside Adventures Trails RV Resort. It's a 55 or older RV park it says on the outside but they have kids here too. It's a hugh park with 350 full hookup sites, it's dirt and gravel but at least we do have a cement slab outside the side of the motor home. We will be here until Saturday then on to Soledad, like I said before. Don't have a lot to talk about these days because it is so cold where we have been so we don't get out much. I'm not a gambler so I haven't really gone to the casinos, Dave has gone a couple times but he isn't much of a gambler either. I think it's about time to start travelling again to other states, we have been around California, Arizona and Neveda for too long now.

Saturday, January 19th, we left Las Vegas yesterday about 1 pm right after we got our rig back from Fenley RV. Dave has been saying the whole time we have had this rig that the batteries were run down but when we were at Monaco last year they said they were fine. Dave has been running some test on them while we have been in Vegas then we took it into Fenley and Dave was right the batteries were low. Fenley called Monaco and they said to give us new ones and they would pay for it, so we got 4 new batteries. We also needed to have a filter changed which they also did but we had to pay for that. Anyway, now we are at AVI Casino in Laughlin, it's an Indian Casino which we didn't know until we got here. All this time coming to Laughlin and passing this place, I just thought it was a regular casino just far away from the other ones, oh well, no big deal. We will leave here tomorrow and go to Bullhead City to the campground there where we have reservations for the next week then we head back to Soledad Canyon. Weather is warming up a little it now gets into the 50's, oh yea!

Sunday January 14, 2007, still here in Las Vegas and freezing to death. Last Friday we had snow flurries for about 1 minute maybe 2, I was out walking Valley around the park so she ended up with little white flakes on her. Last Thursday we went out with a friend of Dave's, Jim Smith who lives here in Vegas. We sat and visited at our coach first then he took us to Red Rock Casino, a new one here, for a buffet dinner, which is one of the better ones I have ever been at. Real nice looking casino inside and out and right in the Red Rocks which were really pretty.
Yesterday, Saturday, we went to the strip again and went to the monster mall there to use my Nordstrom gift card that I have been carrying for ever. After that we went walking around to different casinos, we walked for about 4 hours and went to the Wynn this time. The outsides of the casinos are pretty but once you are inside a casino is a casino.
Las Vegas is not my favorite place, if you can't tell, it would be a lot better if the weather was warm then we could go do things, but right now it's in the 20's, 30's and 40's and that's just to damn cold for me. Oh God, please give me back my sunshine with the warm weather, I'm turning as white as a ghost, I could almost be as white as my daughter Kim soon and boy would that be bad. ha ha
Forgot to mention, we are near a little strip mall where there is a Smart and Final but the big thing is a little casino called "Danny's Casino", didn't Kim's fiance' owned a casino????

January 8, 2007 We are now in Las Vegas where it's just as cold as it was in Bakersfield. We got to Vegas about 3 pm on Saturday, we are staying at the Thousand Trails here on Boulder Highway. We are in walking distance to Boulder Station Casino, Arizona Charlie's and Sam's Town Casino. Saturday night we just set up camp and tried to stay warm, Sunday we went to the Champange Brunch at Boulder Station Casino, boy was that good, then to Camping World to buy a hose stand. Vegas has a law that the sewer hose can not lie on the ground, so we had to go purchase a stand for it. After the afternoon nap, Dave Valley and I went walking for about an hour, that was our exciting day.

January 2, 2007 1st off let me start with HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICKEY ALVIS, 48 yrs young.
Hope everyone had a safe and Happy New Year, Dave and I stayed at the house in Bakersfield and baby sat the dogs, Kim and Danny went to Danny's sisters house for New Years. Dave and I went out to Macaroni Grill for dinner then back to the house had some wine and fell asleep on the couch, me, and chair for Dave. We woke up at 10 min. after midnight and went to bed, very exciting evening. Hope you all had a more exciting evening.
Today, like I said earlier, is Vickey birthday and she, Danielle, and Joann drove up to Bakersfield to see Kim's house and take a tour of Grimmway, where Danny works. Even though Dave and I went on this tour last July, I went again because it is very interesting. Dave drove down to Simi Valley to help Alex get a computer and take Kim's and my jewelery to the Jeweler we know there to have them appraised and pictures taken for insurance purposes, so he wasn't around to hang out with the girls. We (Kim, me, Vickey, Danielle, and Joann) first went out to lunch at BJ's, then I took them by the trailer park that Dave and I are staying at, then on to Grimmway for the carrot factory tour.
This is our last week here, we will pull out on Friday and park in front of Kim's for the night then Saturday head out for Las Vegas. We will be there for 2 weeks then start towards Simi Valley because we have to be at the Golf Course the 1st weekend of February for the bridal faire. Then we hit the road for Arizona again, we have a rally to go to there, after that I'll have to let everyone know when I know. The one thing I do know is we are planning on not coming back to Bakersfield until then end of May for Kim's graduation then I guess we will be staying until after the wedding. I know in April we will be in Oregon again, so Marty watch out.
That's my short update for now, will write again later.