January 6th

This morning I was up early and out the door by 8;15 AM heading out on another great ride.  We headed up towards Montana Mountain again.  There were 9 cars today and what a great day to head out.  Sun is out and it is starting to get warm, got love that sun and the heat.

 I will have to say that today's ride was really good.  If I was to rate this ride today between a 1 & 5 it was a good 3.5 ride.  We had a lot of great trails that I will be showing you in the next few photo's.

 As you can see we are going up!!!

 And we are still climbing up, a lot of lose rock and at least a 15 to 17 degree climb.

 Here we are taking a short break before climbing some more.

 Remember everything that goes up has to come down some time.

 Oh Boy, here we go again more climbing up!!!!

 We finally made it to the top and what a view from up here, one of the guys had a GPS and said we were at 4500 feet.  It was pretty windy but here are some shots from this ridge.

After about 10 minute with the wind blowing pretty good, we headed back down.

 Heading back down, I relly enjoyed the ride today.  It was challenging ride today and was a blast!!!

 Here we are stopped for lunch today.

More climb up and down trail's.

 Here we are going across a slab of rock, it had to be a good 100 yards and rough as a corn cob.

 This was a jail back in the late 1800's to early 1900's.  The sheriff of the county would put them up here for the night,  Then head up the draw and stay in a cave where he could watch this spot.

I had a great day out riding.  Cyndy on the other hand was busy at home getting things clean out of our big black storage cabinet in the back of our coach.  She did a outstanding job and I stayed out of her hair and we are both happy.  Remember if mom isn't happy  no one is happy.  Don't know what we will do tomorrow, but I am sure it will be something good.

January 5th

What a beautiful day.  The sun is back out the air is getting warm again and I think tomorrow the shorts will be back out and the jeans go into hiding again.  We got up early this morning to go out for a ride with the group here in the park.  We head down towards Florence, AZ about 30 miles south of here.

We had 9 cars today and one quad and we went towards box canyon from the south today.

Look who is driving today, Yep, Cyndy was at the helm.  She really did a great job of getting us over a lot of rocks and some pretty steep trails as you will see in the up coming pictures.  Way to go honey you are no longer a beginner you have graduated to the next level.

 At least one thing nice about todays ride, with the snow and rain we had last week it keep the dust down a little bit.

 Little bit of rock crawling.

 Here we are taking a break.

As we were heading up this one hill we came around a bend and look what we found in a very steep ravine.

 It kind of looks like a full size suburban that did a few roles down the hill.  There didn't look like anyone was hurt and didn't find anyone inside of it, that was good.

 Where those people are standing is where it looks like it rolled from.  The trail is narrow in that spot and that vehicle should of never been on it.

 This is where it rolled from.
We did see some other great rock formations and sights.

We had a great day today and Cyndy really did great.  I think she is going to be doing a lot more driving in the future.  It makes me feel great to see here drive and having fun.

January 4th

We have been busy the last few days with taking down Christmas decorations.   They are all boxed back up and  stored away untell next year.  We are in the process of moving a lot of things out of the coach that we will not need in Mexico.  We have rented a storage unit for the next two months for everything.  First off we are putting all of the trade show stuff we have and the RZR in storage.  In the next few days the stuff we use for the trade shows will be showing up and that will all go into storage also.  In two weeks from today we will be heading to the start of a great trip to Mexico.
Yesterday we went to Toni & Lucas's place to fix them dinner for letting us use there trailer and enjoyed some great company.  We also got to see Anna and Brian, Lucas's mom and her husband.  We will miss these kids when we leave this area. 
Cyndy is just about done going through everything in the cabinet that we use for stuff in the back of the coach.  She has done a great job weeding out stuff we do not need any longer.  By the looks of things she will have a least one empty shelf to use for some of her baking pans.  She is hoping to get to sewing this week.
Tomorrow we are going to go out riding with the group here in the park, looking forward to another great ride.
Today we went and met with some old friends Marlene & Ralph.






















They had us over for a wonderful dinner and a lot of talking about what we have been up to for the last year.  We had a great time and enjoyed our time with these fine folks.  We hope to get together with them at least one more time before we head out of here in two weeks.

January 1st, 2015

Yes we brought the new year in with a boom around here.  If I wasn't watching the New Years Eve show on the old TV, I would of thought WW3 was going down with all the fire works going off.  We enjoyed a nice night relaxing and enjoying each other.  There are times when the both of us are very busy and don't get to spend good time with just the two of us.  So when we get a chance we take advantage of it.  I hope everyone had a great New Years Eve, with friends or with your love one.
Last night after all the fireworks Turbo wanted out for a minute so took him out and low and behold it was snowing.  Now I know that in this area it does not happen all the often but the year I come down to enjoy some warm weather it has to snow.  I must of been missing the northwest weather.

The RZR has a little bit on it and none on the ground anyway, so I guess closer to the ground it must of turned into rain.  When we headed out this morning (Turbo & I for his morning walk) it was already up to 42 degree's.  While out walking Turbo, I took a picture of Superstition Mountain.

As you can see the mountain got a good dumping, I jump into the truck and went out and got a couple of more pictures of the mountain.

This should all be gone by tomorrow, with the temperatures going back up to the low 70's by Sunday.

These mountains in the back ground is where I was at two days ago in the nice warm sun.  I don't think I would like to be up there today, it might be a little to cold for me.  Anyway we are not doing much of anything today but watching the Rose Parade and then routing for the Oregon Ducks in the Rose Bowl game.

Yep, Turbo is taking life easy today also, relaxing on mom's lap.  Have a great DAY and a good start on this new year.

December 30th

It is amazing, I am writing a blog again today.  I must have something to say or maybe I just want to tell you about the day I had today.  Notice I said I, because I went out with the guys today on a great ride.

We headed out to Montana Mountain, I was afraid it was going to be one of those trail rides that were boring, but no this one was a good ride. It had some great sights to see.

 Here are a few of the wonderful sights we seen today.  The rock formations are really great.

 I liked this one because of the nice tail saguaro cactus standing out so well.

 These following peaks are just amazing, we could not see them from the road.  We are back into the wilderness about 15 miles.

There was only 3 rigs out today exploring and we had a great time.  Tomorrow at this time there could be up to 6 plus inches of snow here, according to the weather report.  We are at just over 4500 feet here where we are eating lunch.  I don't think we will be up here tomorrow.

This is from the outlook from where we had eaten lunch.  I am really starting to appreciate this area for riding.  Everyday that I have been out we have seen something different.  I am looking forward to every time we head out to a new place to ride.  These people here in the park that I am going out riding with really know these place.  Even though we are trailering our cars up to 50 miles to ride it is well worth it.

This saguaro cactus has a lot of limbs on it.  We went by one back a ways that was even bigger then this one.  But sometimes pictures don't turn out very good, so your stuck with this one.  As I said, today was one of the best rides we have been on, even though the trails were pretty rough, rocky and we were in low gear a lot it was still great and fun.  Looking forward to the next one after the first of the year.

Now what was Cyndy up to today, she has been busy going through a lot of paper work and trying to get it organized a little.  As some of you know she loves to guilt and that takes a lot of magazines to look at to find just that one guilt that she wants to make.  So that is what she has been doing going through them and cutting out a lot of patterns.   Now she has them all sorted out and sized down to just one small container instead of a lot.  She has also been cleaning out cabinets, also to help lighten the coach.  Now some of you would say that I should be there helping her.  I am helping her by staying out of her hair and giving her lots of room for her tasks.  I do help by taking the things she does not want anymore to the dumpster.  So see I am helping.

Tomorrow is New Years Eve, yep Cyndy and I have a big night planned, just what I don't know yet, but I am sure it will be good. 

Happy New Years Eve!!!!!

December 29th

Cyndy and I had a good Christmas and I hope everyone else did too.  We had a great dinner with Toni, Lucas and Tyler, they fixed a outstanding prime-rib roast.  It was a good time spent with them and we really enjoyed ourselves.
We haven't done much since Christmas but odd jobs around the coach.  Been fixing a few things for Cyndy and she has been busy getting the back set up for sewing.  I think tomorrow she is planning on getting the sewing machine humming again.  She really enjoys sewing and I am glad when she has time to do a little.
Myself, I went out for a trail ride today.  There were 7 rigs out today and it was a pretty good trail ride.  It was a lot rocky so we took our time and here are a few pictures from our trip today.

 Here we are getting ready to head out, the weather was sunny and cool.

 We went up and down a lot of hills and the scenery was great.

This is where we had lunch and the place where we turned around and headed back to the trucks.  We were out for just over 5 hours of fun.  Tomorrow we are going out again and I am looking forward to another great ride.  Cyndy is going to be in her sewing room having fun I think!!!!!