What a difference a week makes

A week and a couple of hundred miles! This place has  very diverse climate. Right now id rather be on that beach than freezing my nads off up here in the mountains.. More later

Library and home

Wow,  The Reagan library  was great. Im not sentimental by nature but i had tears in my eyes more than once. If you ever get a chance please go its worth the time and effort. We were there Monday which was Valentines Day and while we were there someone brought a large bunch of flowers and placed them on his grave.I also included a picture of the Gipper and one of his desk aboard Air Force One. They say it should take 2 hours to view the entire place, well it took us close to 4 hours. We left there around 4:45 and drove straight back home arriving around 1am. My butt was dragging. Some observations, the traffic is L.A. isnt as bad as i expected. Atlanta, Houston, San fransico are all worse. And southern California is georgous. Our time here is growing short and we dont have a job lined up for the  summer. Gotta get on the ball cause i dont want to spend the summer sweating in Texas..

Hooray for Hollywood

Day 2 of the road trip and here are some pictures.The first pic is a beach at Carmel. Nice town, but like i said yesterday, very crowded. The next one is" Roxanne The Wonder Dog", attempting a 1,000 ft cliff dive into the Pacific Ocean. She shows "no fear"! Please don't try this at home kids. She is a trained professional. But since the winds were coming from the wrong direction she had to pospone the event. Ok. Next is the huge freaking rock out in middle of Morro Bay. That thing is huge.....  And anytime you come this far you have to get the Hollywood sign.From this vantage point the sign is one way and if you turn 180 degrees you can look out over the L.A. basin. But it was late in the day and very smoggy so we couldn't get a good picture.So just imagine a bunch of tall buildings, a thousand roads and a million or two cars. Tomorrow is the Reagan Library. Im really excited. Ed i wish you  Sean and Richard were going with me.I will send you guys alot of pictures..

road trip !!!!!

After  a hard two and a half days of work, us old farts needed some down time. so the solution was: ROAD TRIP! We left home this morning heading for Los Angeles...eventually. First we drove over to Carmel-by-the sea. Beautiful  little town but man was it crowded from there we got onto the  Pacific Coast Hi way. Probably the most georgous  drive in the world. We must of stopped 20 times to take pictures and just stand there, all slack-jawed, gazing at the beauty. Of, course there is always a hitch in the program. When we left Carmel we had  a little less than half a tank of diesel. well guess what, there ain't a filling station for the next 150 miles that sells diesel!  We just barely made it and it was close. We are in for tonight at a little town called Morro Bay. The room has a fireplace and a Jacuzzi tub. We have to run the A.C. to keep it cool enough to run the fireplace. Tomorrow on to Simi Valley and a visit to the Ronald Reagan library! Im excited

super sunday

I know, I  know, I haven't been blogging much the last couple of weeks but work or goldmining keep getting in the way. show of hands, how many of you watched the entire superbowl without dozing off? Come on, that 3rd quarter was boring. Especially after a couple of mixed drinks and a humongous pizza. But the Packers won and thats good. Pittsburg has won enough recently. This is gonna be a short one (thats what she said) gotta get up early and head to out new super secret gold mine.. I will include some pics of it next time. Everybody try  and stay warm.