Welcome to Mostly Musing - My Travel Blog

This blog is about our travels to Baja California, Mexico in our Classic 1976 GMC Motorhome. We have traveled there since 2005. I hope any readers enjoy the blog and I appreciate any comments.

This years travels to Baja begin from our Victoria driveway the end of October 23rd, 2013.










Thursday, October 31, 2013

What Could We Have Possibly Forgotten?

2013 Victoria to Los Barriles

We left the house Wednesday October 23 for Mike and Kate’s driveway. We were up in the morning with the kids to say goodbye. Lindsay is so grown up now, she rides her bike over to her new school, Arbutus. The same school Mike and Natasha went to. She is now in grade 6. I walked to school with Tristan and Kate early as Tristan had an early morning cross country run practice. He is in grade 4 and in the school that goes up to grade 5, is the fastest kid in the school he says. Last year when he was in grade 3 he was the 8th fastest kid. Sure enough as they ran two laps around the school Tristan was way out in front and didn’t seem to be hardly winded while other kids were dragging their tails. He is not the tallest but he is easily the fastest. We headed for the Anacortes Ferry for 11:00, it was late as the fog was very thick. We were even later crossing as the fog continued to impair our speed. It was quite eerie sailing along through nothing but grey, not able to see anything more than a few feet in front of the boat. We made it to Jerry and Bonny’s in Seattle by about 8:00. We were very hungry – as were they! We enjoyed a beautiful dinner of BBQ’d lamb chops, roasted potatoes and Lorne’s favourite beans. They have a beautiful home and we totally enjoyed our visit. The next day we went to Pike Street Market, out for lunch the Wall Bed store, and then Kelsey and Joe’s house for another delicious dinner and evening. Kelsey and Joe live a few blocks from Pike Street Market. Saturday we were all back to Jerry and Bonny’s for their Halloween party. Another fun evening! Sunday afternoon we were on our way to Ikea in Portland. We spent almost the whole day there. We now have a great memory foam queen size mattress to add to the stack of stuff in the motor home. We are so full the side window is almost covered! We took the sofa out of the motor home so we could fill it up! We may not be bringing the motor home next year so we have to bring what we need this year. It’s hard to get some of the things we want to have down there. The fall color has been spectacular this year! Living in an evergreen forest it is so beautiful to see red orange gold leaves! And I love the dark colors of the ribs of the trees showing through the foliage, the leaves seem to float in the air.
Mount Shasta, an apparition in the near distance, welcomes us to Northern California in the most spectacular way.
The majestic splendor of Mount Shasta! I have so many pictures of Mount Shasta, it is truly a spectacular sight and never fails to take my breath away! The highway travels partially around it so we are able to admire different views of it.
Have we brought everything we need? Yes I'm sure we have brought everything - wait - what are we off to do today? Shopping? Oh yes, that's right, shopping! Lorne has a list. What? Oh yes I do too, I have a list....

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