Bye to 2008

Well I have been so busy in 2008 and it went by so fast that I did not post anything.

So here is a short recap.

I took a lot of trips in 2008 so many in fact that in a 2 month span I went on 9 trips. From Texas to Boston to Florida to San Diego to Montana to Boston back to Texas. I think in total about 34 trips, including Playa del Carmen and the Caymans. I love the Caymans. A very beautiful place with extremely wonderful people. Playa Del Carmen is probably the best place to visit on the Yucatan peninsula, It is half way between Cozumel and Cancun. So you can visit all three places in one trip.

The trip I would have to say was the best one was RV trip Alicia and I took up north to the Blackhills, then further north to North Dakota over to Montana and then down to YellowStone, Grand Tetons and then back to Texas. I have always wanted to visit these States and we wanted to do the trip in an RV cause we had once taken an RV trip to Yuma, Arizona and the Grand Canyon and we loved that trip a lot.

This RV trip was through beautiful country. We went through a huge hail storm in the Pine Forest of Nebraska to see the beauty of the Blackhills rise above the flat plains of South Dakota and North Dakota. We saw the beauty of the Powder, Rosebud, and Tongue Rivers. The flat plains of Montana with buttes, the green country side west of the Powder River in Montana, the huge Carter mountain range rising above 12,000 feet, which we went up and over to the other side while being hit by a snow storm at the top of the mountain, to the beauty of YellowStone to the Grand Tetons.
We even got snowed in while in Yellowstone cause of a blizzard in July. We had to stay in a cabin for one night on the north side of Yellowstone cause the roads were blocked cause of the blizzard. Our RV park was on the north side of the lake just about the middle of the park.

I would have to say that driving the RV was fun and this type of trip sure is an experience. We were fortunate to have a luxurious 40 foot , well equipped RV. This made trip very enjoyable. I forgot to say that we also went on a 40 mile bike ride in the Blackhills up and down mountains with a change in elevation of 1400 feet that almost killed us. Alicia ate an entire large pizza on our return. We also hiked up about 2000 feet to Harveys Peak in the Blackhills.

I had read a couple of books given to me by O about the Sioux indians who's range was the area we traveled in the RV. I now know why the Sioux held the Blackhills as sacred ground. We retraced a few of the paths that the Sioux had traveled. For some reason I really have an affection for Indian things. Our RV trip was quite an adventure.

So 2008 was a wonderful year.
Take Care, Jorge