Time for another adventure! This time I am heading back up to the Pacific Northwest – Seattle and Vancouver, BC. I have not been in Seattle since 1994, and Vancouver in 1987 so I was excited to re-visit some classic locations and make new memories. Daniel and I were flying out early to Seattle on Alaska Airlines. We got a killer deal from Alaska (RT…
September 6, 2012It seems that another era at Club Josh will be coming to an end. The five of you that still look at this site have noticed that I haven’t blogged in a long time as my attention as been distracted by Instagram and Twitter. I’ve been struggling to redesign this site for years and now it seems that my hand will be forced by my…
August 16, 2012Today we actually set the alarm so we could get home around 6pm and have time to do laundry and get ready to go back to work. We made it downstairs for the free breakfast, but Daniel was grossed out by all the little kids running around, so I enjoyed a waffle which I took back to the room to eat. We hit the I-5…
May 28, 2012After arriving in the wee hours of the morning, it took some time to get going and back out on the road. Our goal today was to get to Mendocino as well as the Avenue of the Giants. We left Cloverdale hungry since we did not see any good places to stop and eat, and headed to Ukiah which promised to have more to offer.…
May 27, 2012This weekend, Daniel and I had three days off which could not have come at a better time. We are getting ready to go into a busy period at work with the re-launch of Disney California Adventure and with the recent passing of my Grandma, I wanted to get in the car and head out of town! We decided to head north since my friend…
May 26, 2012Today, my third grandparent passed away after a long struggle with a variety of health issues. Doris Holgate was my maternal grandmother, and the last of my mothers parents. It’s tough for my mom – not only losing her last parent – but also because they had a very close bond, especially after my grandfather passed away back in 2006. In the last year of…
May 23, 2012It seems the first three months of 2012 were full of uncertainty, but things have really settled down into some normalcy. Looks like I won’t be moving again this year (thank GOD!) and really, the only thing out there is whether or not I will be able to stay in my current position at work past September. Fortunately, I have a lot to do before…
April 19, 2012Well it has been over a month driving the Prius v, and I have to say that I really enjoy it. Once I got over some sticker shock involving the car insurance, I have really settled down with the car. The first road trip was last week to Phoenix, and it handled my lead foot and still managed 40 MPG. When we drove in Daniel’s…
April 18, 2012I’ve finally hunkered down and traded in my 2008 CRV for a 2012 Prius. My lease was coming to the end and with the issues I have had with my CR-V, I decided to take the plunge and get a Prius to save on gas mileage. The upgrade is from 18/28 on the CRV to 40/44 on the Prius. I opted for the larger Prius…
March 17, 20122012 has been a real pain so far. I have been unbelievably busy at work and really haven’t had any time to move the site over to the new server. So here it sits rotting away. Other than work, Daniel and I managed to do a day trip to the central coast of CA and I finally went on the section of Pacific Coast Highway…
February 25, 2012