Super-dooper Mechanics

Dottie is going to have to help me remember their names!































This young fella was the one who crawled under the RV to try to figure out what was wrong. What a really nice guy!

RVing and racing - great lifestyles where you meet wonderful people!

Some photos from Infineon Raceway, June 2008

Dale, Jr.'s 88 car
















Brian Vickers' car
















Jimmie Johnson's car
















Jeff Gordon's car.

I dragged my friend Dottie to the races at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma County, CA, last summer. The generator in my RV decided to pick that weekend to go south on me - turned out it was a hole in the fuel hose - so her dog got sick while we were trying to figure out what was wrong. Met some really nice guys who checked it out and decided they couldn't fix it so Dottie drove back to Sacramento to take Mitzi to the vet and to pick up her motorhome. We moved my motorhome to a friend's house and moved Dottie's RV to our campsite. It was HOT! 100+ while we were sitting in the stands for qualifying.

Dottie's generator worked when we needed it. But, during the race, she told me she was going to the restroom. Little did I know that SHE got sick, too! She was discovered not feeling well in the restroom and a track employee gave her a ride back to the RV. Thank goodness it wasn't anything serious!

Wonder if I can convince her to try it again this summer. Whaddya think, Dot??

Sharon's Back Yard

Lovely Iris!
















Better pick off the dead flowers.

















Kumquats. They look like oranges, but they are only as large as my thumb.
















Fantastic lemons! Great for cooking or lemonade.

Winery Trip with my Sisters and a Friend

This is the view from one of the wineries...William Hill? I think so. Sharon will tell me. ;-)



















It is so beautiful in the Napa Valley wine country in the spring.













Sharon and Mary at the entrance to Mario Andretti's winery. Nice setting, but I'm not that impressed by his wines yet.
















Spring was busting out all over on this beautiful day!

Catching up on Blogging

Dogwood blooms. I love dogwood and try to be in areas where the trees are blooming as often as I can. This was up the mountain from Lake of the Springs; Barb and I found it when we took a drive from the campground into the mountains.

The geese were living on a lake - don't remember the name of it right now - that my friend Barb and I visited last Spring from Lake of the Springs. We had a couple of nice drives when I stayed up there.

This is camping on top of a hill at Lake of the Springs in California. From this perch, we watched a forest fire burning and the California Department of Forestry fighting the fire from the air. I'm sure there were some ground crews there, too, but we couldn't see them from three ridges away. I'll post pictures from that experience in the next blog.