Like I mentioned the drive was unbelievably long yet unbelievably beautiful. We left at 6:00 AM on Tuesday the 22nd from our home here in Southern California and Ryan let me sleep until we hit Vegas. We then drove through Arizona and and Utah. I should have gotten my lazy sleepy ass out of the car to pose by those signs but hey, I was being lazy. We got into Ogden, Utah just before 8:00PM. We then left again at 6:00 AM and got back on the highway. I hopped out to take a pee and pose by the Idaho sign. I then reenacted the scene at the Montana sign. The drive went by quickly and before I knew it we were in Crackerville, just outside of Butte and before you get to Anaconda. My sister’s father-in-law that goes by the name “Big Daddy” owns over 1,000 acres there. We stayed in the guest house with my sister and her husband. We ate nothing but country style food. Breakfast was all about Big Daddy’s homemade gravy and lunch and dinner always contained some kind of hog meat. I am not eating for a week now. If that wasn’t bad enough, Ryan and I discovered how delicious Cracker Barrel is. Geez, talk about yummy calories. I need to drink more Tab and eat less food to lose the weight from this vacation.

We traveled around Montana and I was able to see some gorgeous scenery. This is a photo in front of some falls. The dogs had a blast that day. I couldn’t keep Trey out of the stream. I fell in love with a little town called Darby. I also found a property with a huge house for sale for only 1.7 million. Hey, I thought a person could get a good deal in Montana. Come to find out a lot of celebrities have purchased up a lot of estates and the prices are not cheap. Even Oprah has a house on a lake that I visited. Uh, the lake not Oprah’s house 🙂

I finally got the photos off of Ryan’s camera from last weekend. I had so much fun in Monterey. Like I said in a previous blog, we left at the crack-o-dawn on Sunday morning after shooting the big 300th and drove up the coast. As soon as we checked in to our hotel we left for the reggae festival. We were excited to see Don Carlos. I have never seen so much pot smoking in a public area in my life. Now granted I’ve been to several reggae concerts including “Bob Day” but this congregation was unreal. Everyone in the audience was smoking. One guy even had the biggest joint I’ve ever seen in my life. Yes, it is for real and yes, it got passed around the crowd. I’m just saying, somebody must have been a grower…

The night ended well, let’s just say I wouldn’t pass a drug test that day.

We awoke to a beautiful day. We took the dogs down on the beach and played in the sand. Then we left to go visit my Mother. I placed some of her ashes under a tree right on the beach 6 years ago with my sister. Monterey was my mother’s favorite place so I thought it befitting to place some of her there for eternity. The tree looked great and Ryan was so loving and supportive. I miss her but it is nice having a place to visit her.

We were so tired we just crashed in the room and got room service. The next morning we packed up and stopped off at the Aquarium. I was thrilled to see the sea otters and the penguins. I even got to pet a bat ray. I wanted to jump in the tank with it but I don’t think security would have appreciated it. We then headed back down the coast and saw some deer right along side the road.

We stopped off in Big Sur and had a beer while sitting in the middle of a stream. It was heaven.

Well, heaven soon turned into hell because it was around 8:30PM and we were only in San Luis Obispo, several hours from home and we were dead tired. We ended up finding a great room right on the beach in Pismo and cuddled in for the night. It was my first time in Pismo beach and I thought the town was very quaint. I could see myself going back. And then alas, we arrived home, safe and sound.

I went and got laser on my chest on Friday. No big deal, just a thing called a photofacial but instead of on my face, it helps with repairing sun damage on my chest and we all know how big my chest is ;0

All I can say now is ouch, ouch, ouch. I had it done before but the nurse must have just jammed up the power on this second one because it hurts and my skin looks like it got a 3rd degree burn. I stayed in all weekend and I couldn’t even wear a bra it hurt so badly. I couldn’t shower either because the warm water hurt my chest. I was stinky and ugly this weekend. Lucky for Ryan. It is supposed to take 10 days to heal but at the rate I am going the next scene I do I am going to have to pretend I have a skin disease and the only cure is to cum all over my chest. Hey, I’m willing to work with it.

My week is going to be pretty tedious with paperwork, accounting and bills and stuff. I do leave on Friday for the mountains, Yeee Haaaw. These are some photos from my trip back in June. I love Mammoth and so does Ryan and Trey. The only thing Trey doesn’t like is getting stuck in the back seat of my truck for the 5 hour drive.