Wenatchee, Lake Chelan, and 2 very modern rustic homes

Lake Chelan, Wenatchee, and 2 very modern rustic homes


So my business partner Jessica Hale not only has the most amazing Family but her parents have the two most amazing homes in Eastern Washington. I am talking about the two cities of Wenatchee and Lake Chelan, a glacial lake which lies above sea level and is at some points 1,400 feet deep, 50 in length miles wide by 1 mile wide with frigid crystal clear waters in Eastern Washington and is picturesque and stunningly beautiful... 


Both places are ideal places to live. beautiful, quiet, and scenery so picturesque, you feel as if your in a National Geographic documentary film. These places are absolutely beautiful... At the same time they have all the fixings of a regular metropolis, Macy's, Costco, Home Depot, Lowe's, large shopping centers, great restaurants, which is common in Washington.. Food here is absolutely delicious. 


Some sights and scenery pictures from Lake Chelan:

Both towns have Main Streets but nothing compares to Lake Chelan's downtown Main street which looks like straight out of a movie, picturesque, lively, small town look and feel, and absolutely preserved so well you feel like your in Disney World.. A great place with beautiful people, and great little Mom and Pop shops all over the place, all Independent and there is no Wal-Mart anywhere to be found. The same is not true for Wenatchee but the Wa-mart has been remodeled to the new model design, is a super center, and there are still plenty of mom and pop shops all around the town, which is quite large, the set of county government and even has a Federal Courthouse building... 


Then of course we have the two homes that her mother built which are two of the most spectacular homes I have ever seen. One her father, who is divorced from her mother lives in and the second her mother is building with her new life partner in the mountains near Wenatchee. 


Lake Chelan Home:

absolutely stunning home on the foothills of Lake Chelan. The views are among the best in the country and spectacular amazing home itself. Fits right into the countryside, a great winery down below, and very comfortable and home like feel to the entire place. Beautiful, stunning, spectacular... 


The house in Wenatchee and scenery..

Absolutely stunning modern contemporary show place home. This home is by far the nicest house I have had the pleasure of really knowing the owners and having the ability to stay here anytime. The views of the city below are stunning and you can spend hours here just working and pretty much relaxing. 


Stunning, Beautiful, comfortable, and healthy living.. just what the Dr ordered..


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Sailing the Indian River, Florida

Our Little Sailboat

Day Two Sailing from Daytona to Miami...

Our trip is not going as planned. We stayed up most the night putting all the items we brought from miami in the galley where we could not even sit due to all the items everywhere and it seemed that all the seats and every inch of available space was used.. Of course all of this was done in the famous stifling Florida heat and we discovered no nets for the windows or doorways meant Mosquitos. 




After my super nice shower yesterday I quickly realized once I left the AC controlled bathrooms, I found myself in the reality once again of being in a non AC small boat with no window screens, or fans to even circulate. Then came our rescue, someone so true to their promise that they always find the right solution for your immediate needs and at the cheapest price. Of course we mean the world famous, and savior of man kind, the  Super Center. While there we loaded up on LED lights, misters, 12 V operated fans - we bought 4 and they are clip on fans so we hung them in the room and galley. We also bought netting and placed it on the windows, doors, and sunroof, which allowed us to open all of them instantly cooling down our little ship. It was still hot but a tolerable heat, one in which I could fall asleep. 

Another View

Taking the engine apart..

This morning I woke up and realized we had to fix the engine in order to leave. What seemed like an easy task this morning turned into a nightmare and it is now 3:00 in the afternoon and still we have not finished, setting us back at least one day with mosquito lagoon just waiting for what I am sure will be our late arrival and inevitable anchoring in its now famous waterway. 


So again we are on our way to the showers, then wall-mart for another run, and then finally back to our little boat, one which I had hoped would be moving today back toward Miami, one whose engine would work, one who would be one day closer to bidding me farewell... Now instead we will sleep here again tonight and attempt once more tomorrow to get our little sailboat on the water and actually moving us closer to Miami and our ultimate destination for what will become a very modern, contemporary sailboat with a very colorful history. 


I am actually just looking forward to our departing this marina and be that much closer to Miami, and AC, and no more ocean.. LOL...


Stay Tuned for more from our journey


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Our Final Day...in Cuba

Cuba day 9-10
Our Final 2 Days and goodbye

Yesterday (Thursday) as an official farewell to all of us.. My family on the side of my father threw a huge celebration on the farm they own here on the Island.. In conjunction with the birthday party of a very honest little girl I have come to really enjoy talking to these past few days...She always tells the truth about everything.. and I do mean everything and when you talk to her it does not seem like you are talking to a 10 year old but to a young passionate college student involved in government or politics and on one side passionately believing in thhe issues you are discussing.

She speaks about the conditions at her school, about the way things are here, and about the residents of the Island in ways that make her seemm like a college grad student.. One thing is clear from her view and many others here that the US Embargo on this Island is only hurting the peoople and not the goovernment and on this one point I will agree... The government still has what it needs and will always have the means to control the population.. Loook at China.. There is no imbargoo and the goivernment there is a much bigger threat to the United States then the Cuban government. If the embargo were lifted it would mean a new begining for this Island, one with some hope and maybe just maybe supplies would start rushing in.. The past is the past it is time to look forward and remove the Embargo against Cuba..

Getting back to our farewell dinner... It had a huge pig, roasted in the open, goat meat, which if any of you have not tried, I suggest you do because it is the most tasty delicious meat of all in my opinion, salids, tamales, and every other cuban made dish you could think of. I of course took the beers and drinks.. sodas and alcohol are usually out of financial limits to most cubans although Cuban Rum is readily available..The party went off without a hitch until about half way thhrough the power went out buty thank god the rain because even though thehre was no electricity for about two hours, the breeze kept things very cool, cooler then before the rain and wityh only fans as most cubans do not have AC anywhere on the island. It is a luxury reserved for the most financial stable families.

Then we sang Happy Birthday to this very special girl and the one thing she says she will remember the moost is the fact that there were balloons at her party. We brouth them from the states. For you see that is one item that even with money can not be found on the island ion any store or even the most expensive hotels... She was happy too have a birthday (her first) with ballonns.. I have to remember that on my next trip proobably in December to bring lots of ballooons because they seemed to maske everyone there happy it somehow took over the air all around us. It was indeed a good, memorable farewell diner for all of us who today at 10:00 PM will travel back to Miami and be there befor 11:00 PMM tonight.. Back to our working iPhones, home computers, blog postings, emails, problems, phone calls, and oother everyday stress... and as you think abnout all of this, you wonder who truly is the lucky one but then reality hits and you realize its you.. With all the problems we put up with in the United States, its rare we go too bed with hunnger or woondering where tomorroow´s mmeal is coming from, or whether or not we are going to eat or not...

Those are the issues facing lots of people here and entire families suffer the same restlessness although I can say one thing, everyone seems to get by somehow.. Somehow it stays together and peoople have time to fix their hommes and the streets of Cuba´s cities are cleaner thenn anywhere I have been in South America or the carribean, for that matter lots of american cities.. They take pride in maintaining the streets clean and debris free.. so that at least you can leave here knowing this is a very clean hygenic society that takes pride in itself and in their surroundings. 

Cuba is indeed a land of contrasts and one vacationn I will gladly repeat in December of this year and again next June for it is my father land and my families hoome, and one I can never forget.. It has my roots and my people from which I came and a week long family celebration is something thjat always does the body good.. Peace, relaxation, and a governmennt bent on making tourists feel welcome make this place, with all its shortcomings perhaps the best vacation on the planet.. at least to me...  

My next blog entry will be tonight from the city of Miami, from my office as I go to check up on what happened in the last ten days.. Gooodbye for now from Cuba, this beautiful island unnknown to many and misunderstood by most...

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