Well, in less than 24 hours, the woman who matters the most to me, and I will be heading to the airport to begin a long awaited vacation to Manzanillo, Mexico, a little piece of paradise on the Pacific Coast south of Puerto Vallarta. It's an easy flight from here to LA then direct to Manzanillo and the same coming home, Manzanillo to LA then direct back to Spokane. Gotta love Alaska Airlines!
This trip we are going a couple of days early to see my son, his wife and granddaughter in LA(Yaaay!) and then we are meeting two other North Idaho couples Saturday at LAX and heading south to sunshine and cervezas!
We've been going to Mexico for 8 years now and for the last 7 we have stayed in houses/villas that can be rented by the day or week. We got tired real fast of the airfare/hotel packages and the crowds associated with the bigger resort hotels. I can't remember how many times I did that in the past and had to get up at the crack of dawn to just get a decent lounge chair by the pool!
This year we return to a villa we were at last year with some friends who had bought a week at it during a charity auction. You can see pictures of it right here. Manzanillo Villa Pictures. Click on the link and look for the other link to start a slide show to view the villa.
What a great place it is. Private, exclusive, affordable and beautiful place to spend a week in the warm Mexican sunshine.
The husband and wife team of Pablo and Rosa spoil us to no end while there. Margaritas, Pina Coladas and cold cervezas...all by the pool ... We usually have one dinner out at a restaurant but Rosa and Pablo make the best authentic Mexican food and when we buy the groceries it adds to the affordability of staying at this type of place...no overpriced tourist meals. What a great time it will be.
The house/pet sitter is set for the time we are gone and we will be able to relax without worry. Mexico has lots of Internet cafes so maybe I'll make a brief blog post from south of the border. . . provided I feel like slipping on my flip flops and leaving the pool area....:)
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Happy Birthday Mom
I miss my Mom. She passed away almost 5 years ago and like most deaths it was so unexpected and so hard to believe that she was gone.
Today would have been her 67th Birthday. She was a great woman and for as dysfunctional as I think our family was sometimes, Mom was the glue that held it all together.
Fortunately the last 5 years or so of her life I was in a position with my life and the changes that I was going through that she and I were able to have more time together in those 5 years than most of the previous 15 or so. That doesn't mean it was easy, but looking back on it, I am thankful that we had that time to be closer.
The sadness that fills my heart sometimes comes from knowing she's not here, physically, to be a part of our lives. But I also know that she'd be (or is) proud of all of her kids and the things that are going on in our crazy lives. With me being a new Grandfather as of last July and my sister being a new Grandmother as of December, I think my Mom would have been a fantastic Great Grandma to the new additions in our family.
I am grateful that she got to know my new wife Lori and that Lori got to know her. Mom taught me how to love and respect others and she also taught me that Mom's are always there, no matter what. I miss her but I know I am a better man because of her love.
Happy Birthday Mom......
Today would have been her 67th Birthday. She was a great woman and for as dysfunctional as I think our family was sometimes, Mom was the glue that held it all together.
Fortunately the last 5 years or so of her life I was in a position with my life and the changes that I was going through that she and I were able to have more time together in those 5 years than most of the previous 15 or so. That doesn't mean it was easy, but looking back on it, I am thankful that we had that time to be closer.
The sadness that fills my heart sometimes comes from knowing she's not here, physically, to be a part of our lives. But I also know that she'd be (or is) proud of all of her kids and the things that are going on in our crazy lives. With me being a new Grandfather as of last July and my sister being a new Grandmother as of December, I think my Mom would have been a fantastic Great Grandma to the new additions in our family.
I am grateful that she got to know my new wife Lori and that Lori got to know her. Mom taught me how to love and respect others and she also taught me that Mom's are always there, no matter what. I miss her but I know I am a better man because of her love.
Happy Birthday Mom......
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
The 1st post
Until right now I have been a blog-post virgin! This the 1st post I have done on my blog and I have no agenda other than to just see where it goes. I chose the name Road King Ramblings because I own a Harley Davidson Road King Classic and enjoy riding it whenever I can. I figure I'll use some of the rides I venture out on as subjects for posting here.
Spring is getting closer everyday and now with the time change springing us ahead an hour, it is nice to have the extra daylight. I usually get home from work around 5-5:30Pm so the extra light gives me a chance to take the dogs for a walk without it being dark and to do something productive besides sit and watch the evening news or surf the net until Lori finishes up working. It will be nice when the warm weather is here to stay and it becomes time to tend the yard/flowers and sit out on the deck/patio into the evening.
A long awaited vacation trip to Manzanillo, Mexico is on the horizon for us in a little over a week and before that I get to see my Granddaughter Alaina (oh yeah, her parents too! My son Kolby and his wife Emily). They live in LA while my son is studying for his PhD at UCLA. I have not seen her since September last year and she has grown a bunch! Lori saw her a couple of weeks ago when she was down in LA for a class and got to spend the night with the kids.....
We got a webcam not long ago and we get to see her that way quite often. She is such a cute little baby girl and her parents are very tech savy so I'm sure it won't be long before she is using a computer herself!
Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I could sit at a computer in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho and look at my screen and see/hear my son's family live in Los Angeles..... Seems like something right out the Jetsons!
Spring is getting closer everyday and now with the time change springing us ahead an hour, it is nice to have the extra daylight. I usually get home from work around 5-5:30Pm so the extra light gives me a chance to take the dogs for a walk without it being dark and to do something productive besides sit and watch the evening news or surf the net until Lori finishes up working. It will be nice when the warm weather is here to stay and it becomes time to tend the yard/flowers and sit out on the deck/patio into the evening.
A long awaited vacation trip to Manzanillo, Mexico is on the horizon for us in a little over a week and before that I get to see my Granddaughter Alaina (oh yeah, her parents too! My son Kolby and his wife Emily). They live in LA while my son is studying for his PhD at UCLA. I have not seen her since September last year and she has grown a bunch! Lori saw her a couple of weeks ago when she was down in LA for a class and got to spend the night with the kids.....
We got a webcam not long ago and we get to see her that way quite often. She is such a cute little baby girl and her parents are very tech savy so I'm sure it won't be long before she is using a computer herself!
Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I could sit at a computer in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho and look at my screen and see/hear my son's family live in Los Angeles..... Seems like something right out the Jetsons!
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