12/21/07
As
always, our thoughts and best wishes are with you.
Our year was busy with lots of work and travel, and a fair amount of fun as well. As is our custom, this letter is our usual year-in-review, with each month’s collection of pictures telling our story. We believe the old “picture is worth a thousand words” & hope it works for you!
December: Last year ended with a week
out in the desert near
Ogilby road.
Followed by
New Year’s
weekend at Mike and Elena’s and New
Year’s Eve at Rafael & Lupita’s in Apache Junction AZ.
January: We began the New Year with a
ride in the desert near
Ocotillo with all the usual suspects.
February:
Cindy took some time off on a working
visit to Pennsylvania & to see family and the sights.
For years we resisted going on a cruise for reasons that proved to be
unfounded. We spent eleven wonderful days with Mark, Karen, Bob, Pat, Tom, &
Debbie, on board the
Dawn Princess cruising up the Mexican
West coast.
March:
In stark contrast to the luxurious accommodations onboard the cruise liner, Eigil invited his old dad for a three day
Tiger Cruise onboard his cutter.
Although we
continue to cover off road races in California, Nevada, and Baja, Tony & Vicky
arranged for us to cover a
Hillclimb National at Carnegie State
park.
April:
Returned to Nothern California to celebrate
Eigil’s birthday.
Cindy passed on a Rhino ride &
campout to
Gonzaga Bay, off the east coast of
Baja California.
May:
We spent the month working and traveling for work to pay for all this activity!
June:
Dennis, Mike, & Todd teamed up to race the
Baja 500 for a 3rd in class & 21st
overall out of 492 entries!
Rene & Dana had us over to celebrate
Kaila & Daniel graduations.
& had a chance to
collect old time photos of the
Santa Monica crew.
Chuck & Diana also had us over to
celebrate
Bobby’s graduation as well.
July:
Hauled Jeff & Cindy to
Puerto Nuevo & Ensenada
for lobster
We joined Mike & Elena at a
luxurious penthouse in
Rocky Point.
Partied with Joe & Tonya’s at their
engagement party. Cindy got her wish to attend
Comic-Con San Diego.
And finished up with Kent’s
outrageous
50th birthday bash expertly
choreographed by Eileen!
August:
Eigil visited on his way back up to Alameda.
We
camped out at
Lake Morena with Jeff & Cindy.
I (Jeff) took some
time off on a working trip to visit Darrel& Julie’s at their
lake house in eastern Virginia.
Cindy also took some
time off to tour
Connecticut and Maine.
Back from long working trips,
we spent some time in the
Bay Area visiting Eigil, Mark, Karen, Tony, & Vicky.
We ended a busy month with a last minute run up to
Mike & Elena’s in Arizona for some
monsoonal weather and good food.
September:
Another working month, this time with a visit to the Smithsonian’s
Aerospace Museum’s
Udvar-Hazy Center.
October:
Yet another visit to northern California to deliver furniture for Eigil’s apartment, with a side trip to see
Alcatraz.
Another batch off fires that ran us out of the house.
November:
Saw us celebrating
Dennis’ birthday.
And this year we celebrated
Thanksgiving at home with Eigil, Mike,
Elena, Joss, Lourdes, Al, and Michie.
December:
We both ended up spending the last moths of the year doing lots of traveling for
work. I took some time off on weekends to visit
Pearl Harbor and
Waikiki. Cindy went on more trips but
they were too short to do much more than work.
Cindy learned to knit this year & made literally several hundred hats like this one modeled by young Emma. Most of these hats ended up at number of charities.
A special thanks to Mike for playing virtually all the instruments and mixing the Christmas tune in you're hearing.
Hope you
enjoyed your year as much as we did. We wish all of you a wonderful holiday
season, and with some luck we’ hope to see you next year!
... Jeff, Cindy, & Eigil