Getting ready to travel back to Alaska

We have a book signing this saturday at Barnes and Nobel in Redding and will start getting the motorhome ready to head up the Alcan and home soon after. We have been enjoying the nice weather and warm sunshine the past week or so. I have plyed golf with my nephew Sam Bishop a couple of times and hope to do it again before leaving. We will be keeping the blog going on our trip north and will keep our eye open for the many varieties of wilodlife that we see on this trip, most of the time the wildlife is in the middle of the road and reluctant to move. This has been a very interesting trip,with Jeanne having the emergency operation it really changed our plans and delayed our return north, however all is well that ends well and we hope things keep on track from here on. Later, Cliff.

Renewing old friendships at book signing.

Went to Barnes and Nobel in Redding for book signing saturday and was totally surprised by the appearance of an old time friend from Palo Alto, Calif. who I had not seen or heard from since Dec of 1941, her name is Adele Hazeltine and she was the cousin of my girlfriend at that time Kay Keharas, we double dated with my friend George Walker and Adele and had some great times, almost 70 years have passed since we had seen each other. Another surprise was a very old and dear friend Junior Mark came by and we had a great visit and went to dinner with he and his wife Helen, we had worked together in the trucking buisness years ago and had lost contact many years ago, both of these people made it a great day for me. Will be doing another signing on the 20th, same place. Later, Cliff.

Back to Redding

After the trip to Yuma we went up to Phoenix and spent a few days with Jeannes sister and brother in law Tini and Rich, played golf and enjoyed the sunshine, we then went over to Valley Center out of San Diego and stayed with Tim and Hilda Geiermann. Played golf with Tim and had a great time, won a new driver in the sunday golf tournament. We got back to Redding last night and will do a book signing on saturday at Barnes & Nobel in Redding and another on the 20th at the same store, we will then pack up the motorhome and head north to Alaska. I plan on setting up the motorhome in Homer and doing book sales for part of the summer and going gold mining with Tim Geiermann when we can get back to the mine after snow is gone. Till next Time, CB & JM