Today I am getting ready to fly out of Pocatello, Idaho (which could be an adventure) to San Francisco to meet up with my beautiful sister-in-law Maura…I am going on a Wine and Food Cruise with her on the WindStar…I am so excited. We are leaving from Rome, and visiting Croatia and Venice to name a few…I will update the blog with photos and stories from our trip when I get back after June 15th…I am sad that Kelly can’t join us…but he is working on numerous projects on the motor home, which he wants to do and was already scheduled before the opportunity to go on the cruise…..he is a wonderful husband to send me…I will miss him. It will be fun to spend a lot of quality time with Maura….thank you so much for inviting me….Stay tuned… 🙂

Well, today, was an interesting day. We both woke up early and got a great start to contine our leisure trip to Idaho…we had a few stressful moments early in the day. The first stress was within 15 minutes, we had a bad sensor on the inside rear dual tire…the sensor kept telling us we had no air pressure in the tire. We stopped on the side of the freeway and checked to be sure it was ok…all good…started driving again…15 minutes later…I told Kelly,” I smell smoke!”….there was smoke in the back of the motorhome…Kelly safely pulled to the shoulder and we got out quickly…I had Julia (cat) in my arms tight as I didn’t want to lose her on the freeway….we started looking for what was burning…we checked tires/brakes and start looking at the engine…fear of our new home going up in smoke on I-80 near Cisco Grove…I went back into the motor home and found the source of the smoke…it was the electric bed mat had shorted out and melted on the wood night stand…

Scary…bad short on electrical..could have been worse.

I am always grateful I have my Rescue Hero Kelly…who takes great care of us…from here on out…Kelly says,”he is the bed warmer!”

After all the excitment of the morning…we finally were able to keep on going on the road…

On the road again…. Interstate 80 through Nevada

Julia,the cat was doing much better today on traveling in the motor home…she was riding the dash…

Julia the co-pilot

We planned to stop at a random little RV park and spend the night…we were not sure what to expect…it turned out to be a neat little park…we hope to return in the future and go explore the hills and look for gold…this park has a little bar inside the store…so we also took a moment of stress relief after parking the motorhome…we are here for the night…tomorrow we head to Elko, NV.

RV Park…what a great little park!

Flower garden at the RV Park

End of the day…parked…Stress relief….visiting with the local people..

Tomorrow…a new day…a new adventure…to Elko…

It was a nice quiet day…beautiful weather…took a nice walk and just hung out together..perfect…we look forward to many more days just like it.

Waterfall – Snowflower Park – Day Hike

Lake at Snowflower Park

Well, today, we started our road trip journey. We have been living in our motor home since Feb. It has been great…but today we move our home…We commented to each other today,…that retirement was actually a lot of work..but it was “all good”. We had a lot of errands to complete before hitting the highway. We did complete them all. 🙂

It was a rough day for our cat Julia..she really didn’t like it when the house made a lot of noise and moved…I think she survived..maybe..she was really tired..

Very tired cat…resting..ahhhh retirement

It was very emotional driving out of Vallejo…We were excited to leave and yet…there was a sad feeling of leaving places and people of comfort..it really hit us driving up Hunter Hill on Intersate 80..I guess the good thing was it only lasted a minute or two as we are on our way to Idaho to our granddaughers High school graduation which is a very special time. Kelly did remember how to drive the motor home even though it has been parked for three months. Here is our campsite at Snowflower..it was GREAT to smell the fresh scent of pine trees and moutain air. We will be staying here for three days before traveling across Nevada.

Snowflower Our campsite

View from out campsite – snow still here in mid May

The start of retirement….it still feels just like a weekend. Every now and then a thought pops in your head, thinking…wow, I don’t have to go back to work. So the first day started as a regular day…you still have to do laundry when you are retired……..

It was a beautiful bay area weather day…you just had to go on a ride or do something outside.

So we took a beautiful ride up to Mumm’s to pick up the my club member Champagne shipment….of course we had to sit out on the Oak Terrace and have Champagne and cheese plate..it was just perfect..so here are a few photos for the “No Day but Today” project 365..

It was a great way to start. 🙂

This is how to start retirement

A great way to travel

Perfect!

The view from Oak Terrace – Mumm’s

Well, it is here..today is the last day as a Chevron employee…we are offically retired. Kelly did a great job all week in the final Corporate Fire School…I was very grateful, I was able to spend the week with him, and our friends from around the world. We got back to refinery and picked up our last paycheck….the final paycheck is a real check you must go to the bank and deposit…we can’t remember the last time we had to do that…but it was a great feeling.

We will be spending the weekend cleaning up the motor home and getting ready to head to Idaho for our granddaughters High School graduation…we are so exited.

I will also be starting Project 365 “No Day but Today”which I must take at least one picture every day for one year…I am sure there will be the days when it might be difficult…to find the right photo….and other days…where I will have a link to Shutterfly to see the whole album.

We are so exited…so here are some photos from the week in Texas and my photo for today! No, Day but Today. 🙂

Ok….so here is my first post for Project 365..

Carquinez Bridge may 11, 2012…Final ride home – Retired

Texas A&M Fire School -May 2012

Kelly’s favorite flavor in Texas while at Fire School

This is what we learn to fight at fire school…plus I really liked the photo.

Tina is my candle – she lights up the world…

Tina, going to work…