California Dreamin'

Thw whole family ( including our dog Belle) piled into the car and drove three days to get to the World Sci Fi and Fantasy convention in California this August. We took a few side trips to see the Grand Canyon and the Very Large Array in New Mexico and enjoyed the wide open vistas of the west. We drove through the Mojave desert and were relieved to find a gas station as we began to get nervous about running out of gas. The West coast seems like another planet compaired to our woodsy and green Kentucky but we enjoyed every moment of the experience. We swam in the Pacific ocean at Laguna Beach, perhaps the most beautiful beach I have ever seen and ate doughnut holes on the beach in Long Beach. Chris and Nicholas body surfed while I and Belle walked in the surf. Chris didn't win the Chesley this time but we made a great sale and met a lot of very cool people at the convention. We are scheming for a reason to go back out west again.