YELLOWSTONE, YOGI AND MEXICAN JUMPING BEANS

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HEADED OUT OF GLACIAL, -- THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARK, THE BRIDGING PARK, BETWEEN CANADA AND AMERICA. AND THEN THROUGH A LITTLE MORE OF THE GLORIOUS ROCKIES AND SCENERY THAT KEEPS YOU THINKING, ---------THAT YOU’VE ALREADY ARRIVED IN HEAVEN! MONTANA IS KNOWN FOR IT’S BLUE, BLUE SKIES, IT’S OLD GROWTH FORESTS, AND MOUNTAIN RANGES THAT JUST GO ON FOREVER AND EVER, NO IPOD MUSIC FOR US TODAY, JUST THE GOOD OL LOCAL COUNTRY AND WESTERN STATION, IT MADE THE DAY,- THE LYRICS ARE SO CORNY, BUT RIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRYSIDE, WITH VALLEYS OF WILD HORSES AND THEIR FOALS, WHITE FENCED RANCHES, LOTS OF ROCKING CHAIRS ON THE PORCHES AND OF COURSE THE BIG RED BARNS, SHOULDN’T “THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN” HAVE CHARGED OVER A MT BY NOW?
IT WAS LATE AFTERNOON WHEN WE WERE GIVEN A “REAL” FRIENDLY GREETING BY AN EXPAT AUSSIE DOING THE RANGER’S JOB AT THE NORTHERN ENTRANCE TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, FIRST ONE OF THOSE WE’VE MET! (MUST HAVE BEEN OUR AUSSIE FLAGS ALL OVER THE RIG)
SHE GAVE US LOTS OF GOOD WILDLIFE SPOTTING TIPS AND THE BEST ROAD TO TAKE TO FISHING BRIDGE, WHERE WE WOULD BE CAMPING FOR THE NEXT 5 DAYS.
IT WAS STILL 85 MILES TO FISHING BRIDGE, BUT WE DIDN’T MIND AS THAT MEAN’T WE WOULD BE DOING THE DRIVE AT COMING ON TO DUSK, BEST TIME FOR SEEING THE WILDLIFE, AND THAT WE DID!
5 MILES DOWN AT MAMMOTH SPRINGS ---- IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MAIN PART OF THE VILLAGE WAS A HERD OF 20 ELKS AND IN AMONGST IT WERE NEW BORNS, STILL SUCKLING FROM THEIR MUMS AND THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE WAS THE BULL ELK, WHO - JUST WHEN CORRIE TOOK OUT HER KODAK, HE LET OUT AN ALMIGHTY HOWL. IT WAS JUST FANTASTIC TO SEE! THEN ANOTHER 60 MILES ON ALONG SIDE THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER WE SPOTTED BUFFALO OUT ON THE PRAIRIE, WITH SUNSETTING IN THE BACKGROUND, IT WAS MAGICAL.
AND THEN A LITTLE FURTHER ON WE HAD 2 B. BIG BISONS RIGHT BESIDE THE CAR, A LITTLE SCARY, AS WEREN’T OHFAY WITH THEIR BEHAVIORAL PATTERN AS YET. BUT WE WERE SO EXCITED AS WE HAD SEEN THEM ALL AND IT WAS ONLY OUR FIRST NIGHT, PRETTY GOOD EH?
IN 1872 YELLOWSTONE WAS ESTABLISHED AS THE FIRST NATIONAL PARK IN USA. IT IS MAINLY KNOWN FOR IT’S VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND THE MOST ACTIVE GEYSERS IN THE WORLD (SORRY NZ, YOUR’E 2ND)
THE LAST MAJOR ERUPTION WAS SOME 640,000 YEARS AGO AND IT SPEWED OUT SOME 240 CUBIC MILES OF DEBRIS, CAUSING THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE PARK TO COLLAPSE, FORMING A 30-45 MILE CALDERA OR BASIN.
THE MAGMATIC HEAT POWERING FROM THOSE ERUPTIONS STILL POWERS THE PARKS GEYSERS AND HOT SPRINGS TODAY.
THE YELLOWSTONE GRAND CANYON, THE THUNDERING WATERFALLS, YELLOWSTONE LAKE, -LARGEST MOUNTAIN LAKE IN NORTH AMERICA, 20 X 14 MILES THE SUBALPINE PRAIRIES AND FLORA, PLUS THE ABUNDANCE OF WILDLIFE MADE THIS PARK A REAL FAVORITE FOR US.
WE GOT TO SEE HERDS OF BISON AND THEIR CALVES DAILY, SOME VERY, VERY CLOSEUP. THESE APPARENTLY, UNPREDICTABLE (AND JUST A LITTLE PREHISTORICALLY UGLY) DANGEROUS GUYS WEIGH UP TO 2,000 LBS AND SPRINT AT 30 MILES PER HR, 3 TIMES FASTER THAN ANY OF US, SO NOT TO BE MESSED WITH!
THEN THERE WERE THE LITTLE PIKAS AND SQUIRRELS, GETTING AROUND EVERYWHERE. WE EVEN SPOTTED A COUPLE OF COYOTES, SOME ELK, MOOSE, BIGHORN SHEEP, MULE DEER AND MAYBE EVEN A WOLF (NOT 100% ON HIM, COULD HAVE BEEN A COYOTE, BUT WE DID CATCH IT HOWLING) THEN THERE WAS THE BIRDLIFE- WHICH INCLUDED WHITE AMERICAN PELICANS( TRIED TO GET A KODAK FOR YOU SUSIE), TRUMPETER SWANS & OSPREY. WE CARRIED OUR BINOCLARS WITH US EVERYWHERE.
IN COMPLETE CONTRAST TO ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY WAS NOT ON OFFER AND TO GET ANY WIFI AND PHONE RECEPTION WAS MIGHTY DIFFICULT IN THE CENTRE OF A STILL ACTIVE VOLCANO.

THE DAY AFTER BARB’S HIP OPERATION, IN BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKIES, WE TOOK OURSELVES OFF TO SEE--”OLD FAITHFUL”-- THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS GEYSER (IT SEEMED A GOOD DAY TO DO IT AS, SHE AND JOHN HAD VISITED HERE MANY YEARS AGO, AND WE KNEW THEY WOULD BE VERY MUCH, IN EACH OTHERS THOUGHTS ABOUT NOW..)
THE ERUPTION INTERVALS RANGE BETWEEN 40 AND 120 MINUTES, AVERAGING ONE EVERY 90 MINS THESE DAYS, WE ONLY WAITED ABOUT 15 MINS. AND OFF IT WENT, SUCH AN INCREDIBLE SIGHT AS YOU WATCH THE STEAM BEGINNING TO GET MORE AND MORE AGGRAVATED AND MAKE THESE RUMBLING NOISES AND THEN OFF IT GOES, LASTS ABOUT 1 1/2 - 5 MINS, TO A HEIGHT OF ABOUT 130 FT, BETWEEN 3,700 AND 8,400 GALLONS ARE EXPELLED AND THE WATER TEMP IS 95.6C, QUITE HOT! ONCE OVER IT JUST SETTLES BACK TO STEAMING AWAY QUITE CONSISTENTLY, LIKE THE JUG BOILING BUT WITHOUT THE WHISTLE AND WITH A LITTLE MORE PUFF.
WE THEN BEGAN OUR 2 HOUR WALK/HIKE AROUND THE BISCUIT AND SAND BASIN WHICH IS A MASS OF GEYSERS AND MUDPOTS, ALL AROUND THE FIREHOLE RIVER AND IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF EVOLUTION, A LITTLE SCARY IF YOU THOUGHT TOO MUCH ABOUT IT ALL.
ABOUT 2/3RD OF THE WAY THROUGH OUR WALK WE OVERHEARD A KNOWLEGABLE LOOKING----“GEYSER ENTHUSIAST” SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT THE FANS AND MORTAR BEING ABOUT TO GO OFF, SHY AS WE ARE, WE PRYED FOR MORE INFO AND THEN FOLLOWED HIM TO THE ACTUAL LOCATION.
THE SIGHT BEFORE US WAS SOMEWHAT LIKE MOST OF THE OTHERS WE HAD SEEN, EXCEPT FOR ALL THE “GEYSER GUYS” WHO WERE JUST ABUZZ WITH A CHILDLIKE EXCITEMENT, ALL PUTTING ON THEIR RAINCOATS AND HATS AND JUST SAYING TO EVERYONE—“ GET READY TO GET WET !!!!!!, REMEMBER LAST TIME,WE ALL GOT SOAKED, IT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN AGAIN,LOOK!!!!!” THEN SCREAMS AND GIGGLES WOULD EXPLODE EVERY TIME IT BUBBLED SOME MORE AND BEGAN TO EXPELL A LITTLE MORE STEAM OUT OF ONE OF THE HOLES.
WE WERE AMUSED BUT WE WEREN’T GOING ANYWHERE, THESE GUYS WHERE SERIOUS!
THIS SPECTACULAR, WE BELIEVED WE WERE ABOUT TO SEE, IS RIGHT ON THE BANKS OF THE FIREHOLE RIVER AND HAS BECOME THE “GEYSER GUYS” (A LOCAL GROUP) FAVORITE IN THE PARK AND THEY ALL KEEP EACH OTHER MONITORED WITH IT’S MOVEMENTS DAILY, VIA WALKY TALKIES. ----- THESE ENTHUSIASTS ARE VERY SERIOUS, ABOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND COMMITMENT SEEING ALL, ‘FANS AND MORTARS’ ERUPTIONS.
WITH A SLOW, STEADY BUT ALL SO EXCITING BUILDUP, IT BEGAN TO GO OFF---------- EVERYONE WAS SCREAMING WITH EXCITEMENT AND RUNNING TO ESCAPE GETTING SOAKED, WE WERE BY NOW POSITIONED FOR A GOOD VIEWING AND TO NOT GET WET.
THE WATER WAS SPRAYING EVERYWHERE, OUT OF EACH OF THE CONSTRICTIONS, JUST LIKE AN ANGRY ELECTRIC POWERED WATERFALL AND OUT OF MORTAR LIKE IT HAD BEEN CONFINED FOR JUST TOO LONG! WATER WAS GOING EVERYWHERE! THE WHOLE SHOW LASTED ABOUT 7-10 MINUTES AND POSSIBLY MAY NOT HAPPEN AGAIN FOR MANY MONTHS, NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY WHEN IT MAY ERUPT AGAIN! BUT THE GEYSER GUYS, WERE ALL SPECULATING?!
IT WAS CERTAINLY A SPECTACULAR FEAT OF NATURE AND WE FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE SEEN IT! THANK YOU LORD.
THE CHILDLIKE ENTHUSIASM AND EXCITEMENT WAS ALSO GREAT TO BE PART OF.
EACH DAY WE WOULD VISIT ANOTHER PART OF THE PARK, TRYING TO SOAK IT ALL IN, SIGHTSEEING AND ENJOYING THE EDUCATION CENTRES THAT ARE ALL SUCH A CREDIT TO THE NATIONAL PARKS.
IN HONOUR OF LABOUR DAY WE DECIDED WE SHOULD BEGIN TO DO A LITTLE PREPARATION FOR SELLING OUR RIG AND RECOGNISING THAT IN 3 WEEKS WE NEEDED TO BE READY FOR DEPARTURE.
WE PUT THEM BOTH ON EBAY, BEGAN A LITTLE PACKING AND SORTING WHAT WE’D GIVE TO ST VINNIES.
ON OUR LAST NIGHT IN YELLOWSTONE OUR LITTLE SPRUCE CHRISTMAS TREE, THAT WAS FRAMED IN OUR LOVELY BACK WINDOW, GOT SNOWED ON, IT LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL, SUCH A LOVELY SYMBOLIC ENDING TO OUR DAYS IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.
NEXT MORNING IAN CHECKED THE ROADS THROUGH TO THE TETONS NP, ALL WAS OK SO OFF WE WENT.
THE 45MILE DRIVE SOUTH OUT OF YS, OVER THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, ALONGSIDE THE YELLOWSTONE LAKE AND THE SNAKE RIVER, WITH THE REFLECTIONS AND VIEWS OF THE SNOW CAPPED ABSAROSKA MTS AND OF COURSE BRIGHT BLUE SKIES ABOVE, JUST TOPPED IT ALL OFF. ----- IF YOU GO TO AMERICA, GO TO YS, IT IS DEFINETLY THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN!
WE WERE ACTUALLY HEADING FOR JACKSON IN WYOMING, AT THE END OF THE TETONS, BUT FOR SOME REASON WE DECIDED TO STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARK AT COLTER BAY, AND THAT IT TURNS OUT WAS ABSOLUTELY THE RIGHT THING TO DO!!
HAD SOME CHEESE AND VEGE SANDWICHES AND THEN HEADED OFF TO THE VISITOR CENTER FOR A MOVIE AND SOME ADDED INFO ABOUT THE PARK, WHEN WE GOT CHATTING TO A LOVELY RANGER, WHO WAS TRYING TO FIND WHERE THE SQUIRRELS WERE GETTING IN THE ROOF OF THE V.C, WELL AS CORRIE HAD BEEN OFF WATCHING SOME INDIAN BEADING, IAN WAS SITTING OUTSIDE THE V.C, CHECKING THE EBAY RESULTS (TOUGH MARKET, RIGHT AT THAT POINT) BUT HE DID SEE WHERE THE SQUIRRELS HAD GOT INTO THE ROOF SO HE WAS ABLE TO HELP THE RANGER, SO WITH THAT WE GOT CHATTING, AND AN EXCHAGE OF WHERE ONE WOULD BE LIKELY TO HAVE A GRIZZLY BEAR SIGHTING WAS EXCHANGED. --------OFF WE WENT!!!!!
A VISIT TO SIGNAL MT. AND CREEK RD WAS ON THE AGENDA AND AT ABOUT 6PM, IN BETWEEN THE LITTLE DRIVE, WHOAAAA WHAMMO!!!!!!!!! JUST ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, WE HAD OUR MOST AMAZINGLY LONG AND CLEAR AND CLOSE BEAR SIGHTING THE WHOLE TRIP, WE WERE PROBABLY 20FT FROM HIM FOR ABOUT ½ AN HOUR AND BECAUSE HE WAS SO BUSY CONSUMING HIS DAILY QUOTA OF BERRIES, IN PREPARATION FOR HIS FORTHCOMING 6 MONTHS OF HIBERNATION, WITH NO FOOD, ALL THE HUMAN ONLOOKERS BECAME SEEMINGLY UNIMPORTANT.
RIGHT NOW THOUGH, ALL THE BEARS ARE IN A SUPER-EATING STAGE CALLED HYPERPHAGIA, WHICH IS ALL IN PREP FOR THEIR LONG WINTER HIBERNATION AND THUS THEIR COATS ARE LOOKING AT THEIR VERY BEST.
HE KNEW WE WERE THERE ALRIGHT, KEEPING ONE OCCASIONAL LITTLE EYE ON US ALL!
BUT THE BERRIES WERE BRIGHT, JUICY AND PLENTIFUL ENOUGH TO KEEP HIM BOTH OCCUPIED AND SATISFIED FOR ALL THAT TIME, RATHER THAN RUNNING OFF OR ATTACKING ANY OF US.
AND TO THINK WE WERE GOING TO DRIVE THROUGH THE TETONS AND NOT STAY!?
THAT WAS SOMETHING WE WILL NEVER FORGET! THANK YOU LORD!
THE NEXT DAY, ELATED WITH OUR BEAR SIGHTING, WE DID ANOTHER BIG DRIVE FROM THE TETONS THROUGH THE ROCKIES IN WYOMING TO UTAH HEART OF THE MIDWEST AND HOME OF THE MORMON FAITH.
STILL AT WELL ABOVE SEA LEVEL BUT THE CLIMATE WAS A WHOLE LOT WARMER.
AS WE WERE JUST PASSING THROUGH ENROUTE TO BAKERSFIELD WE DIDN’T GO INTO SALT LAKE CITY, JUST STAYED AT KAYSVILLE ON THE NORTHERN OUTSKIRTS AND DID A FEW MORE CHORES TOWARDS OUR DEPARTURE.
NEXT DAY, ANOTHER BIGGY WE TRAVELLED DOWN INTO THE SALT BASIN, PAST THE BONNVILLE RACETRACK (REMEMBER “THE INDIAN”) AND THEN WE WENT WEST THROUGH UTAH AND ACROSS THE NEVADA DESERT, A STARK CONTRAST AFTER WHERE WE HAD JUST BEEN! NO TREE’S AT ALL, JUST SOME HIGH TECH INDUSTRIES DOTTED ALONG THE WAY AND THE OCCASIONAL SERVO.
OUR NEXT PORT OF CALL WAS THE MEMORABLE LAKE TAHOE, A SPOT UNCLE GEORGE AND AUNTY ISSY HAD ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT SO FONDLY, AND WE CAN SEE WHY NOW, IT IS A SPECIAL LITTLE SPOT, ON THE BORDER OF NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA, QUITE A LITTLE GETAWAY FOR THE LOCALS, SKIING IS TOPS IN THE WINTER AND LAKE ACTIVITIES AND HIKING, IN THE SUMMER AND OF COURSE THE CASINOS ALL YEAR ROUND.
AS IT WAS SATURDAY NIGHT AND WE HADN’T BEEN ON A DATE FOR A WHILE, SO WE DECIDED TO SHOUT OURSELVES TO A SUNSET DINNER/ DANCE CRUISE ON THE LOCAL PADDLE STEAMER, A LITTLE TOURISTY FOR US, WE THOUGHT, BUT IT ACTUALLY TURNED OUT A GREAT NIGHT AND MET SOME GOOD AND INTERESTING FOLKS.
10 DAYS OUT FROM HOME AND STILL NOT HAVING SOLD THE RIG BUT ARE NOW A LITTLE MORE PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT THE WHOLE THING, BUT WE DECIDED TO HAVE ANOTHER GO AT EBAY, JUST REVIEWED THE PRICES, NOW A LITTLE MORE AWARE OF THE MARKET CONDITION.
FROM LAKE TAHOE WE MADE OUR WAY TO A SUPER LITTLE SPOT, CHOWCHILLA, ENROUTE TO BAKERSFIELD, IT’S CALLED “THE LAKES’, A GOLF RESORT ----AND THE RV O/NITE STOP INCLUDES 2 ROUNDS OF GOLF, A GORGEOUS SWIMMING POOL AND JACCUZZI, GREAT IDEA, ALL FOR ONLY $40! WE ONLY PLANNED TO STOP ONLY ONE NIGHT, AND SURF EBAY. BUT HAVE A GLITCH WITH ONE OF THE SLIDES ON THE RV, WHICH OUR AMAZING ENGINEER IAN IS NOW IN THE PROCESS OF REPAIRING, IN THE OVER 100F HEAT OF THE DAY, KNOWING MY IAN HE WILL MASTER IT, BUT IT HAS BEEN A REALLY BIG JOB FOR HIM.
AND THEN IT WILL BE FORWARD HO --DOWN THE I 99 TO BAKERSFIELD AND PUT ON OUR SALES OUTFITS TO SELL, SELL, SELL, WISH US LUCK.
IAN, MY HERO, THE LEGEND, HE’S JUST COME IN, HE’S FIXED THE RV, SO B CLEVER HE IS!!!!! WHOOOAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!
OFF TO FIND HIM A CLEANSING ALE!
NEXT MORNING, NICE AND EARLY WE HEADED OFF DOWN TO TULARE, TO PICK UP OUR E 2 PAIRS OF JEANS, ENROUTE TO OUR BELOVED “FOOD BOWL”, AS BAKERSFIELD IS KNOWN BY, STOPPING OFF AT “THE RV PEDDLER” ON THE WAY INTO TOWN.
KARIN SALES/ FINANCE MGR MET US ON THE WAY IN AND SHE LOVED OUR LITTLE REVY, THOUGHT IT WAS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND OFFERED US A VERY INTERESTING CONSIGNMENT PRICING ARRANGEMENT, COULD BE GOOD, ----- WE WILL SEE----?
THE NEXT FEW DAYS, WE TOUTED OUR WAY AROUND EVERY CAR AND RV SALES YARD IN BAKERSFIELD, MET SOME COLORFUL CHARACTERS. WE ALSO HAD SOME VERY INTERESTING ENCOUNTERS WITH OUR AMIGO’S----- THE MEXICANS IN TOWN, WHO SEEM TO BE ROLLING IN GREENBACKS AND LOVE TALKING TRUCKS, EACH DAY WAS LIKE BEING ON A STRUTTING ROLLERCOASTER, SOMETIMES IT WAS STEAMING ALONG, THEN WE’D GET A CHUGGING MOVEMENT AND THEN IT WOULD COME TO A SUDDEN, JOLTING STOP AND EACH DAY WE WERE GETTING JUST A LITTLE CLOSER TO FLIGHT 108!!!!
GOOD THAT WE BOTH ENOY A LITTLE ADVENTURE!!!!!
BETWEEN THE EBAY CROWD AND OUR CASH RICH AMIGO’S,
WE CERTAINLY WERE HAVING THAT.
AT ABOUT 4 DAYS OUT FROM 108 WE HAD A LATE NIGHT, LACED WITH A LITTLE RED AND ONE OF OUR VERY GOOD STRATEGY DISCUSSIONS.
NEXT MORNING WE PACKED UP, TOOK THE RV TO THE BEST OF THE CONSIGNMENT OFFERS.
REWROTE OUR “FOR SALE” SIGN ON THE TRUCK, WE JUST HAD TO HEAT UP THE SALSA, FOR OUR AMIGO’S!!!!!!!!
THEN WE WENT ON LASTMINUTE.COM AND FOUND OUR NEXT HOME,THE SHERATON.

AT THE HOTEL THE AMIGO’S GARDENERS FLOCKED AROUND THE NEW OFFER, BUT DIDN’T SHOW US THE COLOR OF THEIR GREENBACKS.
STILL ON EBAY AND RECONCILED TO PLAN 101 IF NEED BE, WE TOOK OUSELVES OFF TO -------“THE MARILYN MONROE” SHOW, IT WAS GREAT!!!!
NEXT MORNING, WITH OUR EBAY DUE TO END AT 1.40PM WE TOOK OURSELVES OFF TO MICHEALS—A FAVORITE CRAFT SHOP OF CORRIE’S TO GET A LITTLE SOMETHING TO MAKE CRAIG AND NATS ENGAGEMENT CARD AND IAN SAT OUT IN THE “TRUCK FOR SALE” READING HIS BOB CARR CHAPTER ON THE STATE OF AMERICA AND HECTOR (A FRIENDLY AMIGO) AND HIS SON HECTOR APPROACHED FOR A TRUCK CHAT!!!!!
“WHAT WAS THE BEST PRICE WE WOULD ACCEPT” TRANSLATED BY HECTOR JUNIOR. IAN THREW A PRICE AND OFF HECTOR SENIOR WENT TO SPEAK WITH HIS WIFE AND RETURNED AND SAID HE WOULD BE BACK WITH CASH IN 20 MINUTES. IAN QUICKLY GOT CORRIE OUT OF MICHAELS AND HEADED OFF TO TERMINATE THE EBAY SITUATION SO THERE WERE NOT 2 SALES, LEAVING CORRIE STANDING OUTSIDE MICHAELS WITH THE MAUVE “FOR SALE SIGN” TO BE RECOGNISED HOPING THAT PASSERS BY WOULD NOT THINK IT WAS THE PRICE FOR HER.

AFTER A RETURN TRIP TO LINK WITH CORRIE AND THE TWO HECTORS WE GOT THE ENVELOPE OF GREEN BACKS SIGNED OVER THE TITLE AND WERE DRIVEN BACK TO THE HOTEL BY HECTOR WHO EXPLAINED THAT HE WAS A FORD MAN BUT HIS DAUGHTER WAS A CHEV GIRL AND SHE HAD JUST JOINED THE NAVY AND MOVED TO OTHER SIDE OF USA SO IT WAS A GIFT TO HER - A NICE ENDING.
WE CELEBRATED WITH A MEXICAN MEAL AND A FEW MARGARITAS.
A DAY BY THE HOTEL POOL, A FEW MORE MARGARITAS AND A LITTLE MORE CELEBRATION OF OUR ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL TRIP.

THANKS FOR JOINING WITH US. IT IS NOW OFF TO THE BUS, LAX AND HOME TO SEE MANY OF YOU SOON.
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU ALL AROUND THE WORLD WHO WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE THIS TRIP - THANKS FOR THE HOSPITALITY AND LOVE ----- PLEASE COME DOWN UNDER AND VISIT WHENEVER, MEANTIME BE WELL AND GOD BLESS.

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