Coronado, California

We enjoyed our two week stay at the U.S. Navy’s Fiddler’s Cove RV Park on Coronado Island. We had a nice water-side, full hookup site with a fire ring.

 

A week ago Sunday, our friends Rob & Janet drove down from Oceanside to visit us. We enjoyed a tasty lunch at the Coronado Brew Pub. We had a great view of the San Diego skyline from a nearby park.  

After lunch, we visited the Coronado Hotel, which has been a fixture in Coronado since 1888. It was my and Julie’s first visit. It’s a beautiful, historic hotel.  We especially enjoyed the beach and a holiday sand sculpture.

Bird of Paradise flowers

 

 

We “moved” today about 120 miles north to the Seabreeze RV Park at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach. We’ll be here for six nights and have time to explore this area south of Los Angeles..   

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Southern California

We enjoyed our stay at Del Mar Beach Resort on Camp Pendleton. We had a great view of the Pacific Ocean and were parked right on the beach.

 

 

We had dinner one evening with my aunt and uncle, Clara and Earl, who live in nearby Vista. We also enjoyed spending a couple evenings with Rob and Janet, old friends from Colorado Springs and then Austin. They bought a home in Oceanside this summer and moved here from Austin after retiring.

Rob and I enjoyed the Denver Broncos-New Orleans Saints football game last Sunday at Rookies Sports Bar. There were a few other Broncos fans, but mostly Packers, Chargers, and Cowboys fans.

We “moved” to Coronado, California last Monday, November 14th and will spend two weeks here at the Navy campground. We have nice views of the San Diego skyline from our camp site.

 

 

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Leaving Las Vegas

We left Las Vegas last Tuesday, November 1^st, and drove to Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California. We got our truck back from the Friendly Ford Body Shop last Friday. It had been in the body shop nearly a month, but they did an outstanding job of repairing the hail damage.

 

Last Sunday I went to the NHRA Mello Yellow Nationals drag races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, just a short drive up Las Vegas Blvd. from our site at Nellis AFB Family Campground. The races were awesome. I thought the best race was the Funny Car final between John Force and his daughter, Courtney Force. John beat his daughter by 2/100^th of a second.

 

The drive to Oceanside was about 315-miles. It took us 45-minutes to get out of Las Vegas because of the traffic on I-15. We enjoyed stopping for lunch in Yermo, just outside of Barstow, at Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner.

 

 

We got settled into our campsite here at Del Mar Beach Resort and were treated to our first sunset over the Pacific since we left Maui. We will be here for two weeks.

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Maui

We decided a few months ago to go to Maui to celebrate our 35^th wedding anniversary. We lined up a teenage girl at the campground here at Nellis AFB to watch our cat Shasta while we were gone. That worked out well for us, because Shasta hates going to the kennel.

We flew out of Las Vegas last Thursday at 6AM and arrived in Maui around 11:30AM. Maui is three hours earlier than Pacific time. We invited friends and family to join us and my sister Janet and her partner Nancy from Sacramento joined us. We waited an hour for them to arrive on their flight. Then we drove to our condo at Honua Kai Resort & Spa on the west side of the island.  

On Sunday, our anniversary, we went on a nice snorkeling trip to Molokini and Turtle Town. The water was warm and the fish we saw were amazing.

We went to the Hula Grill for our anniversary dinner and the seafood was fantastic.

Nancy and Janet flew home Monday morning, but Julie and I were on a 10:30PM “red-eye” flight back to San Francisco and then home to Las Vegas. On the way to the airport we stopped for a traditional Hawaiian mixed plate lunch. After lunch we stopped in Lahaina, at the best place for shaved ice on Maui, Ululani Shaved Ice.

 

The trip home was brutal, but we're fine now after catching up on our lost sleep from Monday night.

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Living in Las Vegas

We’ve been in Las Vegas two weeks today. We dropped our Ford F-150 off at the body shop on Monday, October 3^rd to get the hail damage fixed and it should be finished by the end of October. I went by to check on it this past Monday.

My sister Marcia and brother-in-law Mike spent a week with us here in Las Vegas. We got out and about some. We went to the National Mob Museum, downtown in the old post office building, and it is well worth a visit. We saw Jerry Lewis perform, talk about his career, and show film clips. He is 90 now and we enjoyed his show.

We researched the various buffets in town and the Bacchanal at Cesar’s Palace got the best reviews. We went with Mike & Marcia on a Tuesday afternoon and the food was very, very good. Afterwards, we walked to over to Bellagio’s to see Chihuly’s glass sculptures, the Conservatory decorated in fall colors, and the outside fountains.

 

On Thursday we went with Mike & Marcia to see the group Heart perform at the House of Blues. It was our first time seeing them in concert and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Mike & Marcia left last Friday, heading home to Virginia. They had planned to stop in Phoenix and Houston on the way to visit friends and family.

 

One of our favorite places to go for breakfast here in Las Vegas is Hash House A Go Go. They are well known for their egg benedicts with pork or chicken tenderloin but I tried the blueberry pancakes, with eggs and crispy bacon, on our last visit.

Julie and I are looking forward to seeing the Moody Blues perform at the Venetian on Friday night.

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Moab, Utah

We arrived in Moab last Saturday and settled in at Portal RV Campground. Moab is a mecca for bicyclists, Jeeps and other all-terrain vehicles, with many trails in the area.

 

We watched the Broncos-Bengals football game on Sunday. After the game, we went downtown Moab and wandered through several gift, sports and tee-shirt shops. Then we headed to the Moab Brewery for dinner. 

 

We visited Arches National Park for the first time yesterday. The park is often very congested with traffic between Memorial Day and Labor Day. However, the park wasn’t very crowded yesterday and it was a beautiful day out. We began at the Visitor’s Center and saw an excellent film on how the landscape and arches are formed. There are over 2,000 arches in the park.

 

We enjoyed our stay in Moab and we’re headed out tomorrow for Las Vegas for a month-long stay. We’re getting the hail damage fixed on our Ford F-150 and it’ll be in the body shop for 3-4 weeks. 

Steve & Julie Cornelius