Check the Photo Album. I´m going to try to post some more pictures.

Great!! the websire is back up.
Madame X, sorry I had to hang up so fast yesterday. My spanish is not good enough to know what the operator said, it could have been anything, but I thought she said my time was up. I´ll call again as soon as I can get through.
It is raining in Spain tonight. We went to the Alhambra today and it was a real experience. It´s so difficult to comprehend the time when you are seeing things that are thousands of years old. I bought the book, Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Erving. I didn´t remember that he had written about this area, but I loved his story about Bracebridge Hall so I can hardly wait to read this one.
We spent a few days on the Costa del Sol and got in some more beach time. It was very warm when we got into our campsite just outside of Granada yesterday afternoon. We se up our camp and I heard voices nearby and they were definately speaking Californian. I went over and asked what part of Ca. they were from. Turns out they now live in Bishop, but they lived in Truckee at the same time we did and Nils, the guy, grew up in the SF area. Carrie, that would be the girl, is from farther south. How wild, we meet up with people in Spain who have led a life right next door to us. We had dinner with them and drank some wine. They are climbers so today they were going to go climb something steep and rocky.
I will tell the best story of the trip, so far, and I`ll try to keep it short.
We arrived in Marbella about 8:30 on Wednesday night. We wanted to get some dinner so we went out to eat rather than set up camp first as we usually do. After dinner we came back to our site and started putting up the tent, etc. I have everything that is important in a fanny pack (bumb bag to those in Britian) that I keep on me at all times. Inside is money, airline tickets home, passport, credit cards and my Mon´s wedding ring. The only time I take it off is when we are in camp and then it goes into the tent.
Wednesday night I diviated from the normal because we didn´t have the then up yet when we got back from dinner.
When I went to bed, I checked to make sure the pack was by me in the tent and it was not. I reasoned that it was in the car since that was where I would have put it while we made camp. The next mornig I went to find it, but it was no where in the car. Tony believed taht I had left it in the resturaunt. I went back to the resturaunt, but it was closed that day. A lovely spanish woman who spoke english helped me find the owner of the resturuant and woke him up and he went and opend the resturuant, but the pack was not there.
I must say that that was Black Thursday for me. Just about the time I began to believe that it had been stolen, a young man who worked in the reception office at the campground came to our campsite with a plastic bag. In Spanish, he asked if the contents of the bag belonged to us. I looked into the plastic sack and in it was my fanny pack. It had been found in the restroom and turned in to the reception office and he had figured out that it must be mine by our names on the registration at reception. Not one thing was missing!!!! I hugged and hugged this poor guy who wanted no part of hugging (it´s a spanish thing) and Tony was yelling Viva Espanol ! We gave the kid 20 euros. A happy price to pay for such wonderful people and such a beautiful ending to the story.
We will spend a few more days here in Granada and then head for Velencia for the races.
Catch Ya Later

I got a card from the winery today stating that your month's supply of wine is ready. I'll go into town tomorrow and pick it up, if I can. They have cut their hours back so that you do have to plan ahead to catch them in. We had a terrible wind and rain storm here, which did some damage out here by my studio. The awning tent-thing was pulled out of the ground and crashed and rolled into stuff. It broke a scullpture, a sculpure stand a big Indian lantern, and pulled one of the torches which you bought me out of the ground. Nancy called to ask what if anything she should do, because the cover over your motor home got ripped a bit. She says basicly its still on, and I said if it were I, I would let it stay; inasmuch as the only oother solution was maybe a new one. She thinks it will be alright...it's just one side that got torn. Let me know if you want anything else done.

WOW...IT WAS A REAL TREAT TO HEAR YOUR VOICE. WE MISS YOU A LOT. I AM HOME TODAY BECAUSE OF RAIN(AND IT IS NICE). BY THE WAY MOM, GOOD BYE IS SPELLED " CIAO" AND HELLO IS "HOY" WITH THE "H" SILENT. I HAVE SECURED 6 INVITATIONS TO A HALLOWEEN PARTY AT THE RECORDING STUDIO IN SAUSALITO WHERE GREATS LIKE METALLICA, VAN HALEN, JIMI HENDRIX AND JANICE JOPLIN HAVE RECORDED. I'M TAKING JEFF & LAURA , CARL & SHERRI AND MY SWEETIE. WE SHOULD GET TO MEET SOME FAMOUS PEOPLE. ITS GOOD TO KNOW PEOPLE!!GLAD YOUR HAVING SO MUCH FUN. I'LL WRITE AGAIN AFTER THE PARTY. CIAO OH YEAH P.S I ASKED LIEGE TO BE MY WIFE...AND SHE SAID YES.

Would that be "Spanish Flies"

Very interesting Madame X. I know how you feel. Sometimes I get a big message written and just before I send it, my time runs out on the computer and the whole thing is lost.
Thanks for clearing up the question of Mike's stroke, Nancy. I hope he's getting better. We talked with Laura and she told us that he was not having strokes now.
Well, here's the update. We are spending our third night in a little fishing village called Armacao de Pera in Portugal. It's a really nice beach town and we have been getting in some good beach time. Today was cloudy so we drove up the coast to some of the other fishing villages and took a look at a mountain town where I hoped to get a message and a soak in the hot springs, but we needed to have made reservation in advance. NO SOAK FOR YOU LITTLE AMERICAN WOMAN!!!
This evening we found a beach with some good waves and Tony did some body surfing while I sat huddled on the beach in my sweater and jacket and read my book. We all do what we do best.
In the morning we will head back east to the Costa del Sol in Spain. Next we plan to see Seville and then on to Velencia for the motorcycle races.
We think about everyone all of the time and wish you could be here with us. We have met some really nice people and a few who have become friends, but there's nothing like kinfolk.
Tonight we are in a bar with the locals watching a soccer game. They are watching, not me of course.
We will check in again in a few days.
Chaio

Just lost a message I just now sent. If it shows up, I want you to know that I hate it every time I do something stupid and it shows up later for all the friggin world to see, forever and ever and ever. Amen

Well I was just fooling around with this thing, and up popped three messages I hadn't recieved. And the
one I j
ust sent. FM FM FM!!PS: My Spanish class was cancelled for lack of people. (They were dropping out like flies.)

I'm having some more trouble. I am not getting your messages, and I sent you a message in Spanisg that doesnt show up. I didn't get the one from Nancy to you, either. Nothing since my last message to you that I wasn't getting through. Ken tried to help me with the EMail address on my computer, but still I only get a list of company executives for your company, and some things are different than they were. This is a test!!