San Diego Adventure

           

     WOW! What a great trip with my Postal friends! It was time for our National League of Postmaster's Convention & my buddy Gena invited me to share in the FUN!! I don't know if she needed me to have fun or just wanted to have my company!

                                                               Old Town San Diego

We took the trolley to Old Town & had some Margaritas.... I shared! As you can see all girls and one man. That man is Sue's husband Elmer but during the week we called him OZ ... I don't really know but he just looked COOL! Gena & I just having fun with the wooden cut outs! I think it makes us look like real 

Señoritas!

The cactus plants were beautiful.... I didn't realize the variety of plants

                                                             Brunch Harbor Cruise 

                           Sue, Oz , I decided to take a Sunday Cruise and WOW what a trip!

The first thing you get when you enter the boat is a glass of Champagne then tables of fruit, sushi, cheese & crackers, desserts, shrimp, oh my too much to go on....it's making me hungry  just talking about it! 

Bus trip up the coast to La Jolla

This would be home if I could can Dan to get a job that makes a few million dollars a year!

It took us to Pine Torrey a PGA golf course. This is where Tiger Woods started in his early career and continues to play here. This course sits on a cliff over looking the Pacific Ocean...I wonder how many golf balls are on the beach?

Paraglider Flights

Next stop was gliding off this cliff. No folks...that's not me gliding. But it looked like fun...and maybe if I would of had all those margaritas in Old Town it could happen!

                                                             Veteran's Memorial Wall

This was our next stop...it's hard enough to see the names but this wall also includes their picture.

My dad served under General Patton and just seeing his picture...knowing that Dad was part of that history...priceless

San Diego Zoo

Going to the zoo makes you feel like a kid again. Spent the day there and that wasn't enough time.

Grand kids when you get bigger THESE grandparents are taking you to the San Diego Zoo!

                         

If you wonder where was Dan...well he has a real job now! The next couple of years while he's working I'll be traveling with the girls! I'll send him a postcard seal with a kiss!

SMOKY MTS, TN

We made it!!! We love TN and being by the mountains...WOW!! This is our first time here and can see us living here!!!

We decided to take a moderate hike(we thought!!)

Dan resting to continue on this moderate hike!!

 Half log bridge that we had to cross...I made It!

Then we had to enter a cave .....

                          With steps going straight up!!!!

We made it back and continued on

Okay we're tough

Another hike straight up!!

Look at Dan go!!

Half way UP!!

Almost THERE!!!!!

Our view at the finish line....AWESOME

Afterwards we thought about always wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail

  

UNTIL we saw this sign...1972 miles

Time to leave....

Last but not least... we stopped to visit friends in Loudon TN

Karen & Joe- fellow Postmasters from back home

Its always nice to take time and spend time with friends you know from sometime in your life

Who have started their own journey

                         Well I guess it's time to go back home to MI.....for a couple of months...
                                                  after that who knows?????

DOLLYWOOD

If you're in TN you have to go to Dollywood!! My cousins Junior & Rosemary took us for the day and we had a great time! They were having International Festival Celebrations which consisted of many different shows such as Cirque Shanghai-breathtaking acrobats, Mystic India- cast of dancers with colorful costumes, Mariachi Divas-three time Grammy Award winners, Pause Cafe-modern folk music from France, and lots of FOOD!!!

Hugh Desserts...they do things big here...Just like Dolly

Pause Cafe from France

Excellent show

                                                They walk around like it was nothing!!

Mariachi Divas

Junior & Dan really enjoyed these girls

Rosemary & I felt like we part of the Divas!!!

My cousin Junior and I just taking time to have a cold one in honor of my dad

(Junior's dad was my dad's brother & his mom was my mom's sister...so we're 100% cousins)

Now we're going to the Smoky Mts!!!!!

NEXT STOP.....GULF SHORES, AL

We camped in Gulf Shores, AL for a week looking for a new winter spot for next winter! We found one that will work..if we don't like it or the weather is cold.. we move on!!! That's what's great when your home is on wheels!! Our friends Linda & Dick are returning home...they had enough of us!!
 While here we drove to Pensacola, FL to see the Blue Angels. Due to the National Budget their program has been put on hold until further notice. Matter of fact this was their last performance!







NATIONAL NAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM

 My son Troy served in the Navy and worked in the Flight Deck Operations. This operations is in the top 5 most dangerous jobs...let's just say this didn't make me real happy&*?$

Changing of Commander's Celebration

It was AWESOME to see the Navy Sons & Daughters lined up for this celebration

The Blue Angels were formed in 1946 to demonstrate the meticulous training the Naval aviators can accomplish. Considered the Navy's best recruiting tool, the F/A-18 Hornets perform all over the world

There's a total of seven planes

AWESOME!!!!

 Our last evening we decided to enjoy the beach and what a BEAUTIFUL evening

Next stop...Smokey Mountains TN

NEW ORLEANS LA

This is our next stop for the next few days! Our friends Linda & Dick are hanging in there with us! They had been here a few years ago which was very helpful!!

What a town!! One word " COLORFUL"

We spent the day walking and playing Tourists. Went into a couple of pubs and had a brew BUT they don't sell Busch Beer!!! We ate canjun, gumbo, and alligator!!! Taste like Chicken!

Linda said we had to have BEIGNETS!! She was right...Mmmmmm

We took a drive to St. Bernard where Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005

What an eye opener...we went on a stretch of road where houses are still empty with

 a hugh red "X" on them...which means that house had been checked for survivors.

At one time beautiful homes and now...no windows, moldy, yards full of overgrown weeds

VERY SAD

Cross in memory of the victims

This is what you see now... Single wide trailers on high stilts

They have lots of stairs and some have elevators

Stopped by this cemetery AND was AMAZED

how many Perez's( my maiden name) were buried there.

This is just a few. I know that my dad told me that when my grandfather came into the states that his brothers continue on towards LA & GA. I'll have to do some homework on that

                                            
                                      The JOURNEY continues to Gulf Shores AL