I am so grateful to my friend Sylvia Oh who made such an effort to renew friendship with me. She drove 4 hours plus one way, and another 4 hours, back to her home. I truly enjoyed reconnecting, renewing and refreshing our connections, after 29 years.
I am so grateful also to our longtime friends of over four decades, Greg Castilla and Lynn Castilla and their daughter Mutya O’Boyle and Kevin O’Boyle and their two grandchildren for welcoming us to their beautiful home and feeding us so well. The last physical visit we did was in 2005, when they lived in Renton, Washington when we just came from Crater Lake, in Oregon.
You know you have precious friendships with folks when you can share all, hold back none, and reconnect like there were no gaps or years in distance.
Maraming Maraming Salamat, Thank you very much to all of you!!
And to our new friends, Patty Bakke and Byron Bakke and Ilene Garland and Dave Garland, we enjoyed meeting you, your generosity of spirits, as if we are longtime friends, and may we see each other again in one of the national parks!
Our 3 weeks on the road took us 3,677 miles through California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and to these national parks: Capitol Reef National Park Glacier National Park Yellowstone National Park Grand Teton National Park Great Basin National Park.
Thank you for my dear hubby, Enrique de la Cruz an adventurous man who loves the wild and whose best self is nurtured by nature.
Thank you for welcoming us to Yellowstone, Your Friend in Yellowstone – if you ever find yourself in Los Angeles, you have a friend in us and I promise to give you a warm bed and a home cooked meal.
Thank you Lord and Mama Mary for guiding us each day and for your unsolicited grace: two nights at Many Glaciers Hotel in Montana, an unexpected rain to clear the heat and grime, the powerful display of Grand Fountain Geyser from beginning to the end of its explosive process in synchrony with White Dome geyser, the unexpected find of the Chapel of the Sacred Heart, the last cabin in Yellowstone, showers daily in all campsites, cabins and hotels and our safety even as the bears were eating huckleberries next to our campsite in St. Mary’s campground in Glacier National Park.
