http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Maribel-and-Pete/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Maribel and Pete en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:31:32 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:31:32 +0000 Pete had both knees replaced this past July 22. He is presently at a Rehab place near our house. He is doing fantastic He is looking forward to traveling and being able to dance again. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/New-Port-Richey/Gulf-Harbors/blog-423807.html We have spent the Christmas holidays with our daughters and their families. We thoroughly have enjoyed since flying into the US we have been to KY NC and Fl. We have visited all the faily and some friends.Here are some pictures of the kids and their families. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-360883.html Merry Christmas to all. Hope everyone enjoys it as much as us. In the spirit of Christ our Lord. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-356706.html We left Lauderdale this morning. Stopped for lunch in Fort Myers with Moon Shadow Tom and Carol. Then unto Sarasota for the night. We wanted to tell Martin and Katheryn that we have sold Paper Moon in person. We find that email is so impersonal. Martin really appreciated this and let us know. We have the original US flag that paper Moon was commissioned with. We will be giving this to him. We i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-356087.html Last night John and Courtney took us out to dinner to the Crab Shack on the river. My birthday present and Christmas for both of us. We enjoyed it very much John seems so happy and contented with Courtney we think they are good for each other. They are in the process of buying a house. John took our truck they had bought a trampoline and a bike for the kids. We drove their car to our house. A f http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-356086.html We drove from New Bern to Ed and Gladys for overnight stay. Both of us are now sick. Bad sinus headache nose running and hacking. We arrived home around noon emptied truck went shopping for groceries. Cat is so glad to have us home. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/blog-356081.html We arrived in New Bern to see our cruising buddies Marcia and Jon from Non Linear. They have bought a 3 bedroom condo in the same development as Scandia and Quisqueya. So we are familiar with this area. Been here a few times our regular stop. We stayed with them 2 nights the 2nd night we went to dinner down by the marina restaurant with a bunch of cruisers. Amongst them was Jerry and Barb from http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/North-Carolina/New-Bern/blog-356080.html We drove for about 4 hours to Kam and Mike's. They have rented a 2 bedroom house until they find out which area they want to settle in. We had dinner out looked at a house they want to buy in Baden Alcoa country. Saturday we spent going all over them showing us the area explaining about Alcoa. Found Stone Mountain winery and of course we stopped in to sample and buy. We brought a case home http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/North-Carolina/blog-356079.html Time to leave we had planned on leaving Monday but it snowed. Tuesday was nice a bit warmer and Heather wanted to show us the house they are thing of buying. It is a huge house 4550 sq feet. 2 stories plus unfinished basement. House is 52 years old. Pete took a look at the electric was frowning. Pete II called a friend to have a look she agreed with Pete. So this will not be the house for t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Winchester/blog-356077.html Heather was up at 0330 and going shopping. Not I We stayed in nice comfortable bed nice and warm with Oreo by my feet. Got up around 0830 found Noah up already he doesn't sleep late Andrew got up around 1100. Eli was up relatively early. I fixed all a breakfast. We sat around watching a movie and talking. Heather came in wore out with all kinds of stories. She went to take a nap. I fixed l http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Winchester/blog-356076.html We had Heather's parents and Grandparent over for dinner. Heather cooked a country ham and a turkey. One brother showed up later on with girlfriend. Much to much food everyone brought something to. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Winchester/blog-356073.html We left the Motel at 0730. Had great weather this cockpit is a bit different. We have been looking for the radar to check traffic but didn't find it. Do we need one in the landboat We decided we would speak to some other RV'ers first chance we get. What upgrades do we need We spoke of different things we would like to do now that we are part dirt lovers. We did buy a Garmin Nuvi 255 while in http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Winchester/blog-356071.html Here we are Day 3 already. We left Ed and Gladys around 10 am driving through to North of Atlanta. We spent the night at a Motel had a nice dinner at Shoneys. headed back to Motel saw us in bed by 9 pm for hopefully early start in the am. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Georgia/Atlanta/blog-356066.html I am trying to catch up on our travel blog. It has been over a month since writing. We have been so busy.Day 1 Left home only 9 days there headed for North Florida. Old Town where Ed and Gladys live. We will spend a couple of nights here while we catch up on our adventures. And play some Mexican Dominoes.To our surprise Ed had cooked dinner. Found out Gladys working at a super market as a cas http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/New-Port-Richey/Gulf-Harbors/blog-356064.html Pete's sister asked us to bring Jonner and AJ this day to take them to Jungle Island. It is on the causeway going into Miami Beach right across from the cruise ships. The boys had day off from school so off we went..We picked up Tia Lu went to lunch at Mc Donalds where we made sure Tia was in between the boys you know no fighting. Then off we went to the park. It is kind of a small zoo. Hope http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Miami-Beach/blog-350392.html We arrived in Fort Lauderdale just fine. Drained and very emotional. It was very hard saying goodbye to all the new friends in PR and saying goodbye to our boat Paper Moon. But we will be back Halloween found us at our daughter Debbie's house with a surprise visit of our son John and his family. Tears were shed by all and then we enjoyed ourselves very much. There was son in law Brian's band ha http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Fort-Lauderdale/blog-349675.html We spent 2 nights in San Juan. The Tres Palmas is a dump. 97 per night. AwfulThe 26 we left Guayanilla in the am saying very tearful goodbyes to Hector and Rosita. Then we went to the Club of Pescadores to say our final goodbyes this was bad. Very emotional. Latin people are so emotional. Then we were off to Caguas to Silvia and Emilio for lunch and goodbyes. Actaully we never say goodbye http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Puerto-Rico/San-Juan/blog-339981.html I made a pot of Squash and Zuchini with onions garlic and the PR people loved it was none left. This is for their benefit I am putting pictures on here of both. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Puerto-Rico/Ponce/blog-338470.html East of Old San Juan lies the upscale tourist oriented neighborhood of Condado which occupies land that used to be owned by entrepreneur Pablo Ubarri Capetillo a Spanish railroad developer and Count of San Jos de Santurce under the Spanish colonial period. Beaches such as nearby Ocean Park popular with swimmers surfers and kitesurfers are found all along the district's Atlantic coastline whi http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Puerto-Rico/San-Juan/blog-336689.html During the Spanish colonial times most of the urban population resided in what is now known as Old San Juan. This sector is located on the western half of a small island called the Isleta de San Juan which is connected to the mainland by two bridges and a causeway. The small island which comprises an area of 47 mi 122 km also hosts the working class neighborhood of Puerta de Tierra and most http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Puerto-Rico/San-Juan/Viejo-San-Juan/blog-336687.html