Jan and I depart for Germany today with Dan and Marilyn. Our flight departs at 7:30 tonight for Frankfurt. An interesting date to make an international flight! We will arrive in Frankfurt the following morning. After Frankfurt, we will cruise on the Rhine River, visit Stuttgart, Laussane on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Munich for the Oktoberfest, then on to Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna in Austria. I'll try to give you updates from each of our destinations.... read more

Saturday was our day to go deep sea fishing. We made the arrangements at our hotel several days earlier. The choice was to get our own boat or share one with a couple other people. We chose to go with the share idea and get a 28' boat with 4 people on board. The other decision was to go for the 8 hour fishing trip rather than 4 hours. This was because we were going Marlin fishing. We (Bob) wanted to get a chance at a really big fish. The Marlins that are here right now are the Striped Marlin, not as large as the Black Marlin or the other one I can't remember right now. But they are pretty large fish going about 150 pounds. When we got to our boat at 6:30 in the ... read more

Wednesday was an overcast, rainy, cool day so we just hung around the resort waiting for the sun to come out, which it never did. So Thurday we rented a jeep and decided to drive to the town of Todos Santos on the Pacifica side of the Baja Peninsula. We couldn't get the jeep until 10:30 so my big plans of making an all day tour to Todos Santos, La Paz and San Jose de Cabo were not fulfilled. Although it was still somewhat overcast, we spent a half hour wrestling the top down on the jeep. Of course the girl who worked for Thrifty had no idea how to get it down. So we decided to drive up to Todos Santos, see the sites there and return. It's a drive of about 75km or 50 ... read more

We arrived here Saturday afternoon and checked in to our resort, the RIU Santa Fe, right on the beach with a view of the rocks at the end of the Baja Peninsula. The place is gorgeous and the weather ain't bad either, although the nights are a bit cool-60 degrees. The days are sunny and 78. The resort is all inclusive and these places must be owned by a conglomeration of alcohol rehab facilities. It's a good investment for them because everyone drinks about 18 hours a day. We did a pretty good job of keeping up with them. The first couple days all we did was go to the pool, walk the beach and----drink. We have eaten pretty well, too. Beaucoup Canadians here. Probably outnumber the Americans 2-1. With 10 days here, we're in no ... read more

Monday, Jamie and Dale had to leave for home and I had to trailer my newest snow machine the '09 Renegade 83 miles up to Keweenaw Motor Sports to have studs installed in the track. Steve and Jim decided to trailer up there also so we could ride together for the rest of the day while my studs were installed. Steve had been considering trading in his '09 Skidoo Renegade 800 ever since the last engine change for a new Etec 600 at Keweenaw Motorsports. He had been bombarding Jim and I with questions for at least the previous week, struggling mightily to come to a decision. The fuse problem made up his oft changing mind for good. After riding my 600 Etec, he was sold. All that remained was the lengthy decision process of which ... read more