My parents came to visit for 2 weeks and one of our must do activities was to go on a lighthouse tour. It was something I had been looking forward to since we moved here. I was happy to share it with my parents. We had to start out early and we drove for an hour before getting on a ferry that was a two hour ride. Then we drove several more hours from lighthouse to lighthouse, crossing lots of bridges. We made it to see 3 of them. I decided there is no way you can do all of them in a day. So we saw the 3 lighthouses in the middle of the Outer Banks: Ocracoke, Cape Hatteras, and Bodie Island. It was a long day but we had a great time.

This is the Bodie Island Lighthouse.

Becca is a pretty tough chick!!!

The kids are in front of the most famous lighthouse; Cape Hatteras. It was beautiful.

Xander was soooo excited to ride on the ferry, he told everyone who would listen the few days before we went and the few days after we went about riding on a “big boat called ferry”. And as you can see he was a happy little boy to be on a boat!

Check out this picture. Jason was able to put the full moon in it so the lighthouse looked like it was lit up. Pretty impressive, the only thing that could have made it better was if it had been a real lighthouse not a replica at the local gas station!!!

Anyway it was a great trip!

Dear Friends:

As we left La Grande a couple of weeks ago, we were awed by the sweep
of the northeastern Oregon landscape. Great wide, fertile valleys
surrounded by high folds of buckskin colored hills draped with rock.
Trains run constantly along the Grand Ronde Valley, little square beads
pulled along the base of the hills.

The Eagles Hot Lake RV Park is right next door to the old Hot Lake
Sanatorium/Hotel, trying to make a comeback. The hot lake itself still
steams and stinks and attracts a lot of visitors, though most of them
come now to visit the foundry, run by the hotel owner and bronze
artist. There are pictures around that show the hotel in its heyday,
about 1910, when folks came for the waters. It was thought the sulfur
baths could cure syphilis and arthritis; I don’t know about the
arthritis, but they have pretty well documented that the syphilis did
very well. (Old time OBR veterans may remember the place – we camped
there in about year three or four.)

We left La Grande racing an early winter storm. Headed for the storage
unit at Logan, we elected to hole up in Brigham City for a couple of
days. It is a little lower elevation. When the snow cleared we drove up
to Logan only to find we were locked out of our storage unit, again. We
pay by the year and apparently they have trouble applying the payment.
This is the second time in two years we have been locked out. It was a
Sunday, then Columbus Day, and a total hassle, but we got it sorted
out.

The Cache Valley is breathtakingly beautiful this time of year, with
Aspen groves and vine maple sweeping the steep mountain walls. We took
flowers to our granddaughter Olivia’s grave and had an omelet at Angies
and generally basked in a blue bird day. We had to remind ourselves
that for much of the year, the air quality in this narrow valley is
very, very poor. We have been in Logan when they wouldn’t let the kids
out for recess. The combination of exhaust and methane gas from
livestock is truly toxic.

Jamie especially misses the Cache Valley this time of year but Jason is
taking her to see the colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains this week.
Good trade.

Right now we are high above Salt Lake City, at Heber City, Utah,
staying at the Deer Creek State Park. We’re doing the Wasatch Mountain
State Park map; the sites at Wasatch are quite primitive and hard for
us to get in and out of, so we stay at Deer Creek while we do the map.
The colors aren’t as spectacular as they were last year, but it is
still a very pretty place. We’ve had three beautiful days and now
another small storm has passed through. Jamie’s Mom and Dad, Diane and
Jim Freston, drove over from far eastern Utah to have dinner with us
before the storm. It was great to see them. They just got back from two
weeks with the kids in North Carolina, so we got caught up on all the
kid-stuff.

We just finished our second full year with Southeast Publications. It
was a push to get as many jobs in as possible before the end of the
fiscal year, October 1st. We made the second level sales award this
year, one step up from last year. The Redmond Fairgrounds actually
ended up close to the good sales number we hoped for. The sales award
doesn’t mean too much to us, but I think our managers get points and we
really like our managers. (Actually, the sales award doesn’t mean zip
to Dave, but you know me ….) Anyway, with this award we get another T
shirt and rings. Rings! With little chips of something on them. Dave’s
real excited. 🙂 Our goal is to hit the third level ($100,000 gross)
next year, doing the same number of parks (20). We like earning the
money but do not want to have to pay a lot of taxes, especially while
we still have Oregon residency. We think about changing that residency
all the time, mainly because of the taxes, but have to consider the low
registration fee for the bus in Oregon and the health insurance we now
enjoy. While our lives are greatly simplified with this lifestyle,
there are still some knotty considerations.

We will finish up this job in the coming week and head for Albuquerque.
It takes us a couple of days to get there, though Moab, Four Corners
and down to Bernalillo. We will do a new park for us, a City RV park in
Bernalillo, then we do a park on the southwestern edge of Albuquerque.
Then it’s on to Santa Rosa to do our last park of 2007. We are headed
to North Carolina for Christmas, hoping really hard we can talk Kevin
and Shelly and Morgan into meeting us on the Carolina coast in January.
Life is good.

Love to all,

The visit “home” this year, a lot of people asked us how we are liking
the RV lifestyle. Are we still happy living in 350 sq. ft., rolling
around America? Starting our fourth year as full time RVers, we’re
looking at the pros and cons.

The newness has definitely worn off. The couch needs recovering. But we
can honestly say we like what we’re doing. We prefer it to anything
else we can think of right now, given that we haven’t won the lottery.

There is virtually nothing we dislike about our lifestyle enough to
even really write about. I don’t like having to use commercial
laundries, but it’s just a blip in my week. And occasionally a very
interesting blip at that. Dave can’t think of anything he doesn’t like
about the way we live.

We both love the job we have with Southeast Publications and agree that
we might not be so happy with the lifestyle if we didn’t have the job.
The job gives us a purpose every day, which we have found is important.
The six months we hung out in the Arizona and New Mexico desert was
just about the maximum we could do, just hanging out.

Right now we have another dead mouse somewhere in the walls. I really
don’t like the smell of dead mouse and Dave really doesn’t like to hear
me complain about it because there is nothing to be done to fix it.
This mouse is tiny, though, so won’t be as bad as the last one. (We
trapped the mother and a day later a baby mouse crept out of the
cupboard and died. We’re hoping there wasn’t a big litter.)

We’ve said many times how amazed we are that whatever we need we seem
to have. Our lives are very simple compared to five years ago. Simple
is good for us. And there is a quiet joy in recognizing this. We had a
joyful chuckle just the other day when Dave got a farmer’s discount on
the air filter he needed for the bus engine. Simple.

Life on the road does not always feel secure. For example, we often are
not sure where we can get fuel or spend the night. We never worry about
it. I don’t know if that’s just us or if we have learned to trust
ourselves, that we’ll figure something out.

Davey and I have developed patterns that provide the comfort of routine
without digging a rut. He gets up before I’m awake, showers and dresses
and makes himself a cup of coffee. I wake up to the smell of his
after-shave balm (occasionally tilex) and make the beds, shower and get
myself together while Dave eats his breakfast. We get up around 7 AM
and usually have an hour of work at home if we€™re working. If we are
not working, or if it’s the weekend, we do the same things we did when
we lived in Bend, except we have new country to explore.

He drives; I cook. I’m going to learn to drive, but still won’t drive
much (we don’t go that far every day). I do the laundry; he cleans the
floors and the bathroom. I do the sales calls; Dave does the computer
graphics. We both take a lot of naps.

It isn’t the travel that is broadening our awareness of the country
(and ourselves), it’s the staying in one town for two weeks . Being
exposed to different cultural values is helping us stay open to views
other than our own. We notice as we get older, we get pretty set in our
ways and talking to people who live differently provides an opportunity
to try to understand, to learn to see without judging.

The job offers us kind of a hard choice in terms of where to travel. We
make more money, usually, by mapping the same parks year after year.
But weâ™re drawn to new areas, or at least new towns in the same region,
so we’ll probably never have a “set” route.

We miss our friends and can’t say that we make any real friendships on
the road, except for our managers. We are still trying to get a park in
Pahrump, Nevada to spend a week or so with our friends the McGills. But
we do feel that we communicate with friends more than we might if we
were living in East Senior, OR. We are not sure we would be living in
Bend if we were stationary.

We are in La Grande, OR now, working at Eagles Hot Lake RV Park. When
we agreed to do this job, we thought we had never been here, but once
here we remembered it. You old OBR people will remember it too. About
the third year of the Oregon Bike Ride we stayed here at the Hot
Springs; Dave and I remember sitting on the green lawns and watching
copious spreads of goose poop bounce up and down as the train went by.
The park is great, 100 grassy sites under a big hill that pioneers
skirted on the Oregon Trail.

Best of all, we spent a delightful three hour lunch with Bruce Nolf and
his partner, Jerri, today. Eating and drinking with friends who share
your history is such a gift to us. We thoroughly enjoyed Jerri, who
shares a lot of history with us in things she does and loves, and
places she has lived. They have a wonderful little house in Cove,
about 10 miles east of La Grande, with gardens and a shop and
reflective of their many interests. We were going to have them over for
dinner in the Bird, but Bruce is heading off tonight to lead a
rock-study group into the Wallowas, so Jerri fixed us a fantastic meal,
topped off with their own blackberries in a great pie.

Going back to the analysis of our lifestyle for a minute, I think we
probably embraced the simplicity of full time RVing perhaps because our
lives were so stressful the last few years we had Q Photo. We longed
for simplicity. What sort of surprises me is that we are still
embracing the simplicity, and appreciate what it offers us. It occurred
to me the other day that even our platitudes have become pithy. A
certain smartness I once admired has become fairly straightforward:
“Don’t go to sleep while your meat is on the fire.” Pretty simple.

Around Monday or Tuesday we head for Utah. A quick stop in Logan at the
storage unit and we will start the Wasatch Mountain job and hope to
beat the snows.

Love to all,

Well we survived our first Hurricane in style! We were all a little nervous as it approached us. We did notice that Sunday was very quiet around our neighborhood, no kids, no cars, nothing, it was like everyone was tucked in their houses waiting for it to arrive. But as it neared land it was downgraded to a tropical storm. So for us in was a nice downpour and the kids just begged to go out and play in the rain. What the heck! We finally gave into them…they had a blast.

Susie….

Becca…

Katie…

As you can see our first Hurricane was memorable!

Love to all,

Jamie

Well we finally decided on a home. Our realtor was very patient with us. We packed up and moved again.

Our new address is: 218 MacDonald Blvd. Havelock, NC 28532

We have really loved having a new home, it has been fun. The backyard is big like our home in Logan was but it is mostly thick forest so we will have quite a big job of clearing it out so it is usable. When the kids go back in there to play now, they come out with big nasty scratches from the spiky vines. It will be beautiful once we are done.

The house has four bedrooms so Becca and Katie are sharing the largest room that is over the garage, it is huge. They grumbled and complained about having to share but 9 out of 10 times they end up snuggled together on Becca’s twin size bed fast asleep. Susie loves her room and Xander’s is very small but just right for him and he was beyond thrilled to have a big boy bed to sleep in instead of his crib. We also love our master bedroom, so nice to have our own bathroom and not have to share with the kids! And we have a staircase going up into the attic from the master bedroom and there is a huge unfinished area that will be perfect for a mom and dad library/craft room once we finish it. Lots of storage space too. We love the kitchen and formal dining room but we miss the extra living room we had in Logan. All in all we are very pleased with it.

Other big news: Xander started Pre-school! He loves it, loves all the attention. The first day he was playing with a lady bug and a phone and I asked him if the lady bug was going to talk on the phone, he looked from one to the other and said “Ladybug have no ears!”

I love this picture of Jason and Xander in their cute ties. A couple of months ago Xander came to me on a Sunday morning saying “strap, strap” couldn’t figure out what he was trying to tell me. Finally got out of him “strap like Daddy” He wanted to wear a tie like Daddy! So cute. So here he is with a ‘strap’ on just like Daddy! I love it!

It is hard to believe we’ve been together for three months, now. What a wonderful feeling. We have enjoyed getting to know the neighbors and the girls have made some good friends. Jason even put North Carolina plates on the Volkswagen. Our bishop asked to see the soles of his shoes, after that. He wanted to see if there was any tar on his heels!

Love you all. Please drop us a note when you get a moment.

Dear Friends,

We be leaving Tall Chief RV Resort today. An interesting, unusual park,
set in a heavily wooded area between Fall City and Redmond, Washington.
With 189 sites, each site is a pad in a little clearing, almost hidden
from your neighbors. They are all back-in sites, no pull-throughs, but
it doesn’t matter because no one is stopping in for one night only.
Tall Chief is a Western Horizons membership park and folks stay for a
week up to six months.

This is the park that sells adult diapers in the office for incontinent
swimmers. There are so many rules in this park, the rules section of
the map has three pages of extra rules. The rules always end with
“Enjoy your stay!”

I had good sales in this park last year when I worked it alone. We
grossed a thousand more this year with Davey’s help. Lots of times
people may sort of want to buy an ad but don’t because they don’t know
how to make one. They don’t have good language skills. Dave makes the
ad based on a phone book ad, or billboard, or signs on the shop window
– I have it in hand as a sample when I make my presentation. It works
almost every time.

We FINALLY got a level five commitment from the Deschutes County
Fairgrounds to map the fairgrounds and their new 150 site RV park. This
job is a real prize. Redmond hosted two huge rallies this summer and is
one of the two fairgrounds in the country to get the biggest rallies.
The other one is in Perry, Georgia, and our VP of Sales does that map.
We’re pretty pleased.

This job has jammed up our schedule, though, and we didn’t get to spend
the 4-5 days with our family in Seattle-Tacoma. It’s hard to leave my
92 year old mother.

Dave’s sister came up to Tall Chief and took us to the Snoqualmie
Forest Theater. An amphitheater set in the woods, the musical was “Meet
Me In St. Louis,” and it was as hoot. It rained all the way through Act
III but no one left. We just hunkered down and shared umbrellas. After
the show we joined the wet cast for an excellent grilled salmon dinner.
A fun evening.

We went to our first Whole Foods organic market in Redmond, WA (home of
Microsoft). It was truly awesome. The produce is displayed so totally
artfully I wanted to take pictures but they wouldn’t let me. Sushi
bars, coffee bars, soup bars and a deli … we were agog. We bought
produce there but had to stop at Albertson’s on the way home to buy
groceries. Whole Foods doesn’t have things I recognize, like Best Foods
Mayo and Brawny paper towels … I’d have to take a class before I
could shop there! It was a real urban experience!

Here it is Labor Day, we are 95 miles headed east out of Seattle and
the westbound traffic is backed up and crawling … another urban
experience!

We’re seeing some maple trees turn red. A few yellow leaves fall off.
It always reminds me of an old Shel Silverstein cartoon titled “A Dance
to Autumn.” A lithe hippie girl in a long skirt, barefooted, twirls
through three panels and in the fourth panel a single leaf flutters
down and she raises her face and sighs, “He heard!”

Love to all,

Well even with school going full speed we have still managed to sneak away to the beach a few times. We just love it there. It isn’t humid or hot with the constant breeze. It is wonderful. The kids have a great time splashing and swimming in the water and digging for critters in the sand and the latest thing making each other into mermaids and mermen… And I love just sitting there being lazy. One of the days Jason went on a Temple trip with the youth (it takes all day to go to the temple here, not just up the hill!) so I brought along Harry Potter to keep me company.

Another thing that entertained the kids for several days was the turtle Jason found in our back yard while mowing the lawn. Lucky for the turtle the blades were set high and went right over the top of it. Whew! That could have gotten ugly. The kids dug up worms for it and tried giving it every kind of vegetable we had in the house. After 3 or 4 days we were finally able to convince them that the turtle would be happier in the back yard rather than kept in a plastic storage box! So we freed Cecil (yes they named it!).

And speaking of reptiles, I had a very close encounter with a large snake. (Sorry Lori I know your skin is crawling right now…) ugh!!! We were house hunting and we went into the back yard of a new home that was nearly finished. It was starting to get a little dark but Jason wanted to see how far back the lot went so he was tromping around in the forest behind this house and the kids and I were wandering around the back yard where the grass was. I glanced down and just about stepped on a huge snake! I screamed, picked up Xander and ran!!! Jason has been teasing me that I “screamed like a giiirrrlll!!!” Yeah well I don’t care how I sounded that thing was huge! At least I don’t freak out every time a cockroach comes in the house. I am happy to kill the cockroaches if he will keep the snakes away! To Jason’s defense the cockroaches are pretty big. (but not as big as that snake!)

Ok enough of the reptiles… we will move onto crabs…We decided to get some fresh seafood, there are several stands between here and the beach selling it, we got shrimp (they took the heads off for us thank you very much!), clam meat (already packaged ready for chowder) and fresh crabs. We all enjoyed the crabs and we were glad we didn’t have anywhere to be because it took forever digging the meat out of them. Another adventure.

Well that sums it up for now, can’t think of what else to write about other than we miss ya’all like crazy and hope to hear from you soon.

Love, Jamie

My mom was in Virginia for a week attending meetings for work. We drove up to spend part of the weekend with her. It was wonderful to see her again. We are looking forward to their visit in September. While in Richmond we drove around to see some of the historical statues and monuments. We were a little limited on time so we decided to check out the Children’s Museum and then the Museum of the Confederacy. We didn’t make it to the civil war one, the kids were so involved in all the different activities at the children’s museum that we couldn’t pull ourselves away from it. It was a really neat place.

All of our kids love art so they were thrilled with all the art projects available to them.

Xander’s favorite parts were the apple orchard where he could ‘drive’ the big farm truck and kick us out at will…he would tell us to “go paint!” (back to the art area) and blow us a kiss good-bye! Picking the apples was fun too. He also spent a lot of time at the various water tables.

This was really neat, it was called the ‘Shadow Play’ they had butterflies, water falling and wiggly worms on these screens and when your shadow crossed it it did really cool special effects. If you held really still the butterflies would actually land on you or rather on your shadow just like in real life. And the water would pile up on you and then flow over you like a waterfall. It was awesome!

Other big news…First day of School (feels like we just finished…)

July 17th found us waking early, packing lunches and backpacks, scrambling for last minute items, like shoes… The schools we chose for the girls are year round schools. Susie started 6th grade at Tucker Creek Middle School, home of the mustangs! She was pretty excited about that, there is a large statue of a mustang in the school courtyard. Becca and Katie are at Arthur W. Edwards Elementary school starting 4th and 1st grades. Becca has been very vocal about how she did NOT want to go to this school. We stopped in several times getting paperwork filled out before school got started. She would say, “It’s old, it smells bad, there are no lockers, the cafeteria is in the gym…” on and on whine, whine, whine… the girls have been extremely spoiled by attending Edith Bowen. Well, we were all anxious for the first day to come and go. I picked them all up feeling more nervous than they seemed when I dropped them off. They all had a wonderful first day of school. WHEW!!! They were very excited about everything and Becca has not complained once since then! Xander on the other hand asks all morning “pick up sisters?” “go drive mom” and he doesn’t even put up a fuss at naptime because he knows when I wake him up it is time to go pick up his 3 favorite toys, I mean sisters!

Well that about wraps it up for now. I guess I could be diagnosed as homesick if you count how many times I check my email every day hoping to hear from someone…anyone… that is a hint by the way…Thanks to those of you who have responded to these letters, we love hearing from you!

Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you.

Jamie

Well Jason and I both agree that this has been the most fun month that we have had in years. It has been so wonderful having our family back together and having time to play together.

We were so glad to spend a week with Jason’s parents, Christmas is a long ways off…that is when we will see them again.

Pardon our Noise, It’s the Sound of Freedom.

This is on the sign in front of the main gate at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. Our home is in the approach and take off path of the jets. It gets VERY loud!

We visited the NC Aquarium, the kids loved it. Lots of colorful fish, sharks, sting-rays to “pet”. We even found a cute hermit crab, that we decided to take home with us!

The same afternoon we stopped in at Fort Macon. I tried to keep Jason respectful of all the soldiers who battled there. But the temptation to scare the daylights out of the kids was too much for him. Becca got so mad she wouldn’t speak to him for 20 min. He got them good, by the time we left all the kids were clinging to me! Way to go Dad!!!

We have also done a lot of just hanging out around the house, the kids have had so much fun playing together. The girls adore Xander and will do just about anything for him. They play hide and seek daily, Xander loves to count, squeasing his little eyes shut, he can make it to 16 on his own. Playing puppy is also a daily thing, sometimes all day long. Xander named himself Addis when he is a puppy and Susie packs him around the house taking care of the “puppy” One day they all got dressed up in old Halloween costumes and went trick or treating to each other out of the hall closet. It was very cute. I have loved watching them play together. The girls bike, blade and scoot around the neighborhood, play in the creek (have wondered why all their tadpoles have died!!!) walk the dog, watch tv, and yes finally read a lot of books. Finally got our license so we could get a library card. Becca had all her books read in 2 days.

Becca had a fun day for her 9th birthday, shopping with Mom and then a family party in the evening. She got loaded up with Hannah Montanna STUFF!

We celebrated the 4th of July with a ward pancake breakfast…yummy. Then in the afternoon we did our first family bike ride. It was awesome (except for the scary narrow road that had Katie in tears, it was rather tight with passing cars, she did really good considering this was her first real ride outside of our neighborhood). Susie was amazing on the tandem, She and Jason looked so cute riding together. We ended the day with a BBQ, local fireworks and our own fireworks in our driveway. It was fun.

We hope all of you are doing good, we think about you often and miss you lots!!!

Take care,

Love, Jamie

Dear friends,

The last few weeks have been sort of whirlwind … hot and blowing
wind, too!

We got to northeastern new Mexico in good time, 5 days from Jason’s
house and that included what the truckers called an Arkansas Parade -–
a 2-1/2 hour slow crawl due to a multi-truck accident. Went through a
tremendous thunderstorm in Oklahoma – pretty close to where we went
through one last year!

The State Park we do at Ute Lake in Logan, New Mexico put a lot of
pressure on us not to take up a space because they were so full, so we
did the job in four business days and got out before the 4th of July.
It went okay; lots easier the second time.

We’re in Albuquerque now, with a couple more days to work here. This is
the park owned by Ali Qureishi and last year we put both his parks on
the same map, mainly because one was marginal. Well, it isn’t marginal
any more, it has turned into a trailer park. The two days we stayed
there I was afraid someone would steal our stuff! Ali was not happy
that we could not put that park on a map. Actually, the other park has
over 50% “monthlies” but it is a fairly high end park and you can’t
tell whether someone is here for a month or a year. Next year we might
not be able to do this park, either.

Once again I’m reminded that we tend to judge others by ourselves.
Because integrity is so important to me, I am always surprised when
someone lies to me. The east Indian or Pakistani culture does not value
honesty the way we do. Quite the opposite, it seems; if they can trick
you, or get the upper hand, they feel very pleased.

This park, the Stagecoach Stop, is actually north of Albuquerque, in
Bernalillo. We like the area a lot, and meeting our friends Ted and
Marcia gives it an added attraction.

On Friday I followed my impulses and intuition and found my way to the
One Crow Studio of Geraldine Brussel. The artist is nearing 80 and was
waiting for me in the yard when I drove up. It’s such a wonderful
feeling to know you are exactly where you are supposed to be, doing
what the cosmos has set up for you to do. I’m attaching her painting
titled Sandia Leap; I just love it (she gave me a note card). We had a
good visit, swapped stories of Santa Fe and she let me poke through
everything in her studio. I’m looking forward to seeing her when we
come through in November.

As much as we don’t like to be on schedule, we will make sure not to be
in this part of the country at this time next year. We’re a month later
than we originally planned, and while the lateness was worth it
(waiting for the Swans to arrive in N.C.), holy cow it’s hot! Lots of
days it has been 98 degrees outside and 98 degrees inside. We have A/C
in the front and in the back as long as we are plugged in to 50 amps,
but we don’t like to run it while we’re gone and it is so noisy we
can’t sleep with it, so nights are uncomfortable. At least for me, they
are. It has been so hot I’m concerned about food in the pantry and
medications in the cupboards. The other night I was making a salad
dressing and pulled out the pantry shelf and could hardly pick up the
bottle of wine vinegar, it was so hot! I’m afraid I’ve been a little
testy about “loving the lifestyle” lately.

Nevertheless, we are glad to be back in the saddle, working and making
a few bucks. In a few days we will head for Logan, Utah, to pick up a
few things out of storage and get some minor repairs done on the bus.
Then to Bend to get our old bodies checked out. Dave will do the Idaho
(Washington) Ride the end of July while I drive up to see Kevin and
Shelly and Morgan and take my Mother on a little road trip. We are due
in eastern Washington around August 7th to do a park, then we go west
to Redmond, Washington and do a park and get some more family visiting
done and head south. We aren’t sure yet about doing a map for the
Scandia Park in Bend in September and also have to check in again with
the Redmond Fairgrounds. They want us to do a map for them and we said
we could do it the first week of September but the director says the
park won’t be ready until the 15th of September…….? Is it me, or
…….? I have been trying for 12 months to convince him that he
doesn’t even have to have an RV park, we do maps for fairgrounds all
the time, but so far we aren’t connecting. The director wants to make
sure the RV park is actually up and going.

Isn’t it strange that the little message Davey and I made for you bears
such a resemblance to the Sandia Leap? Maybe not so strange.

Love to all, and may the wildfires of summer not be in any of our back
yards!

Sam