June 27, 2007 plans have changed again. Well Santa Barbara is out for camping so I guess we will try Soledad Canyon again. A new motor home showed up here yesterday and as the man was setting up his tripod satellite dish Dave went over to talk to him. They were at the Santa Barbara 1000 Trails campsite where we were going and they told us they have no cell service there at all. If you leave the park and drive a little bit you can get cell service, well that isn't going to work for Dave since he is on conference calls throughout the day. Good thing we found out before we drove all the way there, now the only bad thing about Soledad Canyon is there is only one area that you get cell service really well and hopefully when we get there that area is open and not packed with RV's or trailers. Last time we were there if Dave walked to the back of the motor home he would lose the cell service but as long as he stayed up front he wouldn't lose his calls. Hum, maybe he just told me he lost the calls because he didn't want to sit in the back of the motor home where his office was at that time, we will see when we get back there.
I'm telling you it is killing us being back in Bakersfield or maybe just being back in California. Being in Bakersfield is costing us a fortune, I got my car fixed, remember the steering wheel that was broken when my brother, Marty, lost the keys to my car and had to get a locksmith out to re key it, The part cost $40 the labor was $200 and they kept my car for 2 days because once the cylinder was fixed it had to be re keyed again. When we had plumbing work done awhile a go the plumber had gone into the attic and said we had holes in our roof, so we had 2 different companies out yesterday to see if they could patch the holes. Both companies said the roof was shot and needed to be replaced. One bid was $8,400 the other was $8,900 so I'm sure you can guess who we went with, now that is really something we needed before paying for the wedding. I think that is about it for now, will do more complaining later and more updates.