Time to try an update

We visit Faith & Seth in Hawaii (Maui & the big island).

Here are a few pictures:

Miriam, John, Ryan, Seth

Beehive ginger

Seth in his yurt on Maui

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John, Seth, Miriam, Faith

Greenwood B. C.

The fruit on the trees behind a Mariposa, B. C. fruit stand.

Greenwood, B.C. is a semi-deserted copper mining town that had big money between 1887 and 1918.

There are a few new folks moving back in for the winter sports (6' of snow!) and the mild but clear mountain weather.

Many neat old buildings with lots of potential. However, this town is a long way from big population centers. Had a great breakfast in a Tea Shop/ bakery with lots of gifty items run (single-handedly) by a great older woman who was cook-baker-cashier and bottle washer. Great town I want to come back to and spend a couple of days exploring!

Boquete Panama land search

View of Pacific ocean and David? from 1 hectare lot. Looking south
Neighbor to west, ravine between properties has small steam.

From lower section of lot looking up at Harry and Rene.

Steamboat Springs, CO

A bit out of the way up in the NW corner of Colorado, Steamboat Springs is a lovely ski and summer vacation spot that is a real town with a real year round community. Unlike Vail and other "all condos all the time" type of towns, Steamboat seems like a place to actually live a life.

Here are some photos from the Rockies and the Steamboat area in mid August 2005. Click any images to enlarge.

There is a great visitors center and camp ground at Hahn's Lake. Here Miriam shakes hands with a dead bear. There are a couple of ghost towns nearby.

We went up in a hot air balloon on a very clear morning. Great view of the town and valley. We landed in a hay field (I found out you never know exactly where you will come down in a balloon). Then the captain (a British policeman six months of the year) calls the crew and they drive out to the landiing site, pack up the balloon and basket and load it on a truck.

The elk are at the summit of Rocky Mnt. National Park. The elevation and clear air took your breath away. Miriam stayed in the car.

The log cabins and general store are in the little ghost town of Columbine, CO (not the high school). These rustic cabins are for rent and the owner said it was awesome in the winter time up there.

My Chinook Camper

This is my new time wasting project - a 1978 Chinook pop-top camper.

Bought on Ebay, I promised the old girl some TLC if she got me back from Denver without problems. She lived up to her end of the bargain. Now I'm into my second weekend...

Sold on Ebay after about 3 years of fun and maintenance! Rather glad to not be fixing things all the time. Still we had a couple of great trips including a visit to BC Canada where we had a great time with a flat tire. Sometimes the unwanted problems (and the people who help us solve them) are the best part of the trip.