We made it!

We made it to California. It's fricken awesome! Ocean beach is sick. We walked the streets for a bit, got some Mexican food and watched the surfers. im in love. i could totally plant a life here. ocean beach is filled with surfers, surf shops and low life hippies. and best of all, its so dog friendly it hurts :) After we found a campsite. A campsite thats... Hmmm... how to explain..(won best camping award in California last year.) its definitely not any back country experience, we ll just say that, lol.

We didn't do much exploring today because I have a big day tomorrow at the quiksilver headquarters. It's always been a dream of mine to work for this company. And after two interviews, I'm finally a sales associate. One day, one day I hope to be here in the headquarters. Tomorrow I get to see where the magic is made.

In the mean time, we are camping at camp land, yup, car camping with our tent, but they have great amenities. Nice pools, a work out center, a beach, a market and a LIQOUR store. Not our style, but I do need a shower tomorrow. We just got done hot tubing, drinking some wine and now we are starting a fire. I'm so excited for tomorrow, you have no idea. More to come.

The Heat is On

That's a pretty corny one, but seriously, it's 90 degrees today and Panzo is not a happy camper. Like I told him, just stay in the shade and drink water today. My uncle chad brought over his bulldog and so did the neighbor and then there's Cody, the lab, watching all these fools run around. Dog party! Hilarious!

Today we just chilled by the pool! It was relaxing and nice! Caught up with deb and Dan and talked about how tough in health this last year was for them. It's interesting to hear about all the things in your body can go wrong, what tests have to be performed, what hurts and what doesn't, the after effects. It just amazes me.

Tomorrow- heading on the road to California! Whoop whoop! Pretty stoked to see the ocean!

Good morning from horse shoe bend

Today we woke up quite early. Packed up camp, got coffee and hiked up to horse shoe bend. Horse shoe bend is a beautiful overlook of the Colorado river. Today there are a bunch of citizens of Page America picking up trash on the side of the road. I suspect it's for earth day.

Due to a road collapse, our venture from page to Scottsdale will add 49 miles from the detour. Maybe we will stop in flagstaff for lunch. I'm excited to see my family. We obviously never made it to Sedona:( another time. Camping on the beach last night was fun though and we made grilled ham and cheese sandwiches and drank a bottle of merlot. Now just relaxing, eating some raspberries. Here we come Scottsdale and 90 degree weather.

Lake Powell

It's the first day on the road and we decided to camp at lake Powell tonight. I've been here once before to visit lindsay but this is Gabe and panzos first time. Everything is so relaxing. It's sunny, really quiet and just peace and calmness. Panzo and gabe are playing fetch and im just chilling and relaxing. Ahhhhh! Serenity! We left park city at 6:30am this morning! we were planning on 2am, but that didnt exactly happen. oh and did i mention being hungover in the car sux, so don't ever go out the night before you leave!! Lesson learned. No plans for the rest of our day but to just chill out and relax. Maybe try to catch some sun rays. Next destination is Scottsdale in the morning.

Winter is still here!

This is not a joke. Woke up this morning and we had a huge dump! Yesterday was a beautiful spring day and then bam! Gotta love living in the mountains. Looks like we could be skiing for awhile.

Music Monday

Oh i just love this song, and HER voice is amazing!!!! This song makes me miss all my friends that are leaving :(  Off to new Adventures for EVERYONE!

http://youtu.be/Q8yLwuDi2mA

California here I come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      

In a week or two we will be venturing out for our Road Trip. Time to pack up the car, pack up the pooch, get some snacks, and get on the road. We are heading to Sedona, AZ first to go to some really cool rock slides at a state park called Slide Rock State Park. Sedona is also really well known for their Red Rocks which we'll be seeing all the way from MOAB to Arizona. Then after Sedona, we are going to scottsdale to spend some quality time with the family. It'll be good to check out Grandmas new Pad and see Auntie Deb & Dan.

Then after Arizona, time to hit up California for some Exploring. I have been to Cali once and that was when I was a baby, so technically, that doesnt even count. We will be making a few major stops, one in San Diego and one in San Fransisco. The rest of our time, we have nothing scheduled, we're just going with the flow. We have a couple of friends on the way that we will stop and see.

We are also going to do some camping at Big Sur, Northern California. They have tons of great camping and beautiful hikes. There is a 10 mile hike that I would like to do to these hot springs called Sykes Hot Springs. There are really cool waterfalls on the way too.

If we can, and have enough time, we would like to check out the Redwood forrest.

<-------------- Yeah I wish that was our WHIP!

I just cannot wait to lay on the beach, chill on the board walks, people watch, eat tons of good Mexican Food and do some camping & exploring!

And while we are there I would like to VISIT Sea world and we may, just may, go to Disney Land if my manager Ty can get us free tickets, which he said is a great possibility. We'll Seeeeeeeeeeee, The Adventures are Endlesssssss!!!!!