12/1/2017 - 12/30/17 To Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta

2017 

 December 2017:  We have arrived at Angela and Lee's timeshare, Grand Mayan in

 Puerta Vallarta.  We have driven from Mazatlan to Puerta Vallarta to meet up with our Sacramento friends:  Mike and Sherry and Ron and Frannie.

It is a gorgeous resort complete with poolside service!

"Drinking our Lunch"

There is a river stream built alongside the pool.  Such fun letting the current take you away!

A 'welcome' roadsign to Puerto Vallarta

The Malacon in Puerta Vallarta.

Spent the afternoon with Mike and Sherry taking in the Centro Plaza.

Delightful musician at the plaza on his violin.

Centro Plaza

The Cathedral main street

 Plaza vendor selling drink refreshment.

Spanish rice dish Paella by resort chef

Swimming companion

We meet up with Frannie and son, Scott and other friends gather in Puerta Vallarta.

The evening dinner show was fantastic.  Here is Mike and Sherry entering the event.

Scott and Carrie - young, mature lovers!  Frannie's son.

Boat shuttle to the Island demonstrated some evening entrainment while aboard.

Ron and Frannie, Host and Hostess

Resident friends of Ron and Frannie.  "The Boys" Showed us the town!!!

Our WorldMark Report

Strolling the grounds at the Resort.

Nice

At friends, all going to dinner at the Iguana Restaurant & Tequila Bar which formerly was Casa Kimberly.  

Richard Burton and Liz Taylor lived here during their courtship.
Friends loving each other!  Merlyn and Wendell 

Tim and I at the riverside restaurant before the play.

Ron and Frannie - lovebirds!

The bridge from Richard Burton's residence ....... to the residence for Liz that has a pool!

At the friendship table.

The comedian at the playhouse.

At the resort, the Mexican Fiesta evening - dinner and show!

Artwork at the Centrol Plaza - Puerta Vallarta

Drive from Puerto Vallarta back to our beach house in Mazatlan

Back to our own back yard.

Red Truck transportation available for those larger groups.  You will find them lined up at either Sam's Club or Home Depot for those large loads.

Unique to Mazatlan are Pulmonia taxis.  Gas-powered open-air taxis that look like a sup'd up golf cart!.  Most have stereos and drive around with the music volume cranked up! Back at our beach house.

Tim's antique lantern he salvaged and reconditioned from his parent's storage closet.

Jim is here awaiting Linda to arrive after she spends the holidays with her girls.  Dining at Poncho's on the Beach.  Great beach location.

Other modes of transportation, our Lexus.

The beautiful beachfront in the evening on the Malecon de Mazatlan!!

Tim and the automatic milk frother.

Our Pink Flamingo is keeping a watch posted on our balcony.

My blog station; we just purchased this desk and chair so we have a convenient, comfortable place for our Travel Blog.     Casarollnotes.blogspot.com

This is the end of our 2017 Travel Tour.  

Recap: Departing Sacramento, our 2017 Travel Tour included: January - June 2017 to the Family Farm in New York.  We flew back to Sacramento for the month of June for Jason and Erin's wedding and Jeffrey's high school graduation.
We then flew back to New York and resumed our RV 2017 Travel Tour: July - October 2017 to Back East and the Fall Colors.  Mike and Sherry met up with us in Vermont.

Looking Forward: Beginning in 2018, we live here in Mazatlan for 1/1/2018-5/1/2018.  
In May we begin our RV 2018 Travel Tour.  We have our RV in storage in New York so we shall begin the RV 2018 Travel Tour from New York and head south thru the Keys and beyond and return to Sacramento.

11/10/2017 From Sacramento Drive to Mazatlan

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

Spending Thanksgiving with all the family.  Norm and Dixie et al rented a large house overlooking the lake, so we converged at Incline Village to spend time with Angela, Lee, & Jeffrey and Jason & Erin too.

2017

Sofie along the way.

ON THE ROAD TO MAZATLAN

Roadside stop for refreshments.

We are driving south on Hwy 395 on our way to Mazatlan!

Roadwork in Mexico.  There really are two highway lanes with on-going improvements.

We arrive at our halfway stop in Mexico in Navojoa.

Children come to the window to ask to clean the windshield.

We have arrived at our Beach House !!   It is wonderful, love our space, and the ocean and the garden on our grounds are well cared for. 

This sign indicates we are entering Mazatlan.

We pass by David and Mildred's house: Torre Playa Dorada

Arrive at the Front Gate of our 'home away from home'

Toll booth.

Woodstock the kitty cat is exhausted from his travel.  He did fine and is a good sport!

11/7/2017 (Stop #64) Return to Galway, New York, to Family Farm -Travel Tour of the USA 2017 Completed

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

We have returned to Galway, NY, to the Family Farm: Fall 2017.  Kyle has agreed to let us store the truck in his barn and we have contracted to store the RV in the Hudson Valley RV Storage.    November 2017...We have completed our 2017 Travel Tour and returned to the Family Farm to visit Hume, Christine, Debbie, Tina, Seymour, Bonnie, and the rest of the family members in the Galway, NY, area.  

 Winter season is coming on and we will go to CA on our way to our Beachhouse retreat in Mazatlan for the Winter.

Kyle dropped us off early in the morning at the Albany Airport and we anticipate being with our children. It is now November and we are flying back to California, excited to celebrate our daughter, Angela's 50th birthday.  It has been since June that we have seen our children (Jason and Erin's June wedding and grandson, Jeffrey's, High School graduation).

The Family Farm

HUME AND CHRISTINE

Gathering the last of the

potatoes from the garden.  

Debbie (Hume and Christine's daughter) visiting.  She hosted a family gathering at her house a few miles from the farm.

Hume is celebrating his 90th Birthday

 this year!

FAMILY
We visited Tina and Brian in Pittsford, VT.  Taking pizza from Rutland’s Ramunto’s Sicilian Pizza.  Tina prepared salad and Brian's folks visited with us too.

Preparations being made
CasaRoll is going into storage starting November 2017.  Tim has wrapped insulation to the hot water pipes and added protectant to the plastic parts on the roof.  He is emptying the waterline and adding anti-freeze.  Tim is cleaning the truck inside as it serves us daily as our enclosed patio on the world! 


Tim scanned many of our important documents and placed them in our virtual vault!  We completed an on-line transaction to begin the final phase of the sale of Costa Valeros.  I have sorted and cleaned the bathroom cabinet, vanity, and bedroom drawers, and winter/summer clothes.  I have a bag for the Good Will and some canned food too.  The frozen goods will be contributed to Hume and Christine's down-cellar freezer.  Dave Wood and wife, Connie Arnold (grandfather: Mother: Bunyan).  
Reading family tree documents.

Christine's father built the addition to the Scotts Church.  He was a building Contractor as this sign indicates.
State Capitol: Albany, New York
Tim's cousin Seymour took us to The Egg, a performing arts venue

From Albany, New York State Capitol to Sacramento, California State Capitol.

                        The End is Just the Beginning