Summer ‘95
*Additional notes may appear in italics after my mom’s initial journal entries.
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July 1, 1995 Saturday
Another day of getting the boat ready to leave for the summer.
July 2, Sunday
We finally got to talk to Arnie and Janice this morning. They were anchored in San Francisco and plan to be in San Carlos around the 15th of July. Then they will spend 6 weeks in the States, San Francisco.
We left around 9:30 am and headed for the States with Harry and family. We got to Tubac and they bought us lunch at their restaurant. They’ve got a real nice place and tourist shop.
John and Maryann picked us up there and we stayed at their house.
July 3, Monday
We went to Green Valley but no luck finding a car. So they are letting us drive the truck up to the mountain, they drive up Friday night with Maryann’s mom and take the truck back.
July 4, Tuesday
We left around 6 am so that the ride is cool enough for Falstaff and to miss the 4th traffic. We made it to the cabin around 10:30. Samie spent the day and night with Sam and Rane, had a picnic and went to the fireworks. We had a BBQ at Barb and Richard’s and shot off a few fireworks of our own- no cops!
Staying at the cabin.
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July 5, Wednesday
John went to work- yuk!
July 6, Thursday
We found a car, it’s Liz’s from work, an ’86 Chevy Cavalier, paid $1,500. Seems to run real good.
The “Big Guys” at NEC decided I could go back to work also, at least temporary- 3 weeks at first- hopefully all summer. I’m even gonna be up helping at the customer desk like before- at the same pay as when we left! Wow!
July 7, Friday
I thought I had blocked it all out but it was already coming back by the end of the day. Theresa was on vacation and will be back Monday, so I’ll be helping her and training Michelle who will be up there full time.
Danielle drove up tonight. We stayed at Larry L.’s until Monday.
July 8, Saturday
We talked to Melanie’s mom, Shirley and we can move into her house in PTCC on the 23rd or so. We will fix up the yard and paint the outside for staying there. It will be good to be on our own and able to hang up our clothes. Only a week and I’m sick of living out of a bag. John helped seal the road back into the cabin.
Peg had a guy run into the rear driver’s side of her car in Snowflake last night. She’s ok and the other guy got the ticket. I haven’t seen the car but it’s not drivable.
Her and Billy stayed here tonight.
July 9, Sunday
John has waxed the car twice and shined the inside- looks pretty good.
Billy and Goon left to go to Clay Springs and he left his wallet here.
July 10, Monday
Ok- Monday morning - I had forgotten how awful they can be!
Moved in with Colleen.
July 11, Tuesday
Same ‘ole- same ‘ole!
July 12, Wednesday
Happy B-day Daddy!
July 13, Tuesday
It’s nice here at Colleen’s, good friend, nice company. Samie stays with Rane while we are at work. Today they all went to St. George, Uthah for a Jones family reunion.
*Sam is my biological father and Rane is my step mom - For the first few years, I would stay with them on summer weekdays while Mom and Dad were at work. Regan was 2 and Cardon was just a few months old at this time, so I was experiencing the new world of being a big sister. My cousins and grandma lived right down the street, so I’d usually be playing over there in the afternoon until about the time Mom and Dad came to pick me up.
July 14, Friday
Well, at least 4:00 pm on Fridays is nice.
It’s “scary” how much of work I remembered. I thought I had blocked it all out.
July 15, Sunday
We moved our few possessions up to PTLCC in Melanie’s house. It is nice to be on our own and not in on someone.
We are going to paint the outside of the house in place of rent.
August 10, Thursday
There is really not much to write here on land!
I worked at my old job in customer service for 4 weeks and then went to the mail room, for 3 weeks that I know of so far.
Sat, Aug 5, I went to Travis S.’s wedding. Got to see a lot of the family that I hadn’t seen for years. Dave was there, it’s been 15 or 16 years since I saw him last.
I also went to Janell’s wedding. She finally married Jim after 8 years. I got to meet her friend Barbara after hearing about her for 14 years.
Schyler is 3 months old and so cute. He’s trying to roll over, he laughs a lot.
Danielle is trying to go back to school and play softball.
We watch the weather and right now tropical depression “Flossy” is moving NNW from P.V. to Cabo, but should- hopefully- start moving more west.
Janice & Arnie called from San Diego, they might come up here in Sept. I hope so.
I miss our boat & Mexico- life in the States sucks!!
Hurricane Flossie is 125 miles south of Cabo, winds 75 mph, but moving mostly west and out to sea. Cabo may get winds 40 to 70 mph.
August 28, Monday
I’m still working in the mail room and other odds and ends. Hopefully it will last as long as possible.
Even Samie is ready to go home. She said that when she gets real bored she starts thinking of the boat and what we would be doing there. She also said that a little humidity would be nice, cause it’s a bit cold here!!
On Friday 8-25-95 Samie got her ears pierced- she’s doing good with ‘em.
Danielle got a promotion at Walmart- she is the department head of furniture. At 19 she’s the youngest to ever be a department head.
On Saturday, 8-26-95 we drove to Alpine to meet Brent B. from the Chubasco net on the ham radio. It’s nice to have a face to go with the voice. It was a nice ride, it rained off and on both ways. It’s really green and pretty, we saw a few deer and antelope.
Janice and Arne called, they are in Alameda, California headed to Washington and don’t know if or when they’ll get out here to Arizona.
The cap that fell off my tooth would have cost too much to replace so I just had him (Dr. Boyd) put a filling in it.
Six or seven weeks to go- and counting!!
Sept 9, Saturday
The other night we watched Cal Ripkin break Lou Gehrig’s record from 1939 of 2,131 games played on the baseball field consecutively.
Chelle and Faron and Schyler came up over Labor Day weekend. I had been so sick that I didn’t even hold Schyler. John and Maryann also came up.
Hurricane Henerrita hit Cabo on Sept 3rd or 4th and then veered off to the west. Never heard just how much damage was done, but with 100 mile an hour winds I can imagine.
John is so bored he’s helping to neighbor paint his house.
Oh-on Sept 1st I got a sailboat and a star tattooed on my right ankle- for the Wand’rin’ Star!
*Holy smokes! I pulled up the video of Cal Ripkin breaking that record and it’s a legit 19 minutes of solid cheering and support from the entire stadium. No pyrotechnics, no lights and dancing or anything flying overhead. Not even commentary of any sort! Just a 19 minute standing ovation - can you imagine how that would feel to receive?! You can see on his face over and over how blown away he is! It’s pretty cool. Also, I love spotting signs of the technology at the time - big bulky recorders and all the flash photography in the stands making the stadium look almost shimmery.
I don’t remember a lot of specifics about this summer, I spent the days while Mom and Dad were at work at Rane and Sam’s and spent a lot of time with my cousin Ariann. Once school started, I was always enrolled for the first 9 weeks until we left. This way, I maintained a bit of a social connection at school and it was always so fun to come back and see all my friends again and probably answer questions about the boat. During I think 3rd-5th grades, the whole class would write me letters and I would respond back to everyone. Mrs. Grave’s class, 3rd grade, even went so far as to make a little book for me that everyone drew in and signed. They also gave me a Doodle Bear which I’m sure everyone signed, and I remember them singing “For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow” on my last day, lol. I remember watching Baywatch most nights when I got home, while Dad was painting and Mom was getting dinner ready. Mom and I were also avid fans of Home Improvement and would watch that together regularly.
Sept 14, 1995, Thursday
We been watching Hurricane Ishmael head straight up the Sea of Cortez. It’s blowing 85 mph and at 3:30 they put out a hurricane warning all the way up to Guaymas. We came home and packed a bag and headed down to the Wand’rin’Star. We took some clothes to Samie at Rane’s and Jo will pick her up on Friday and keep her till we get back.
We made it to John and Maryann’s at 10 pm and stayed there for the night.
*I had forgotten about this, but I remember it vaguely now; Mom says I was pissed I didn’t get the choice to go with them to watch out for the boat, but as an adult now, I absolutely would have made the same decision!
Sept 15, Friday
We left at 6 am and got down to San Carlos about 1 pm. We had seen on TV at Maryann’s that Ishmael had gone inland at Los Moshi’s about 120 miles south of Guaymas, but decided to go on down.
The boat was floating in her slip just as beautiful as anything could be. Jeff had gone over and secured her with some extra lines- thank god they weren’t needed.
She’s not growing too much funk on her bottom, either.
We spent the night sleeping in the cockpit looking up at the stars and listening to the beautiful music of the rigging slap against the mast!
It got down to 80° in the early morning but was still 100° and 90% humidity in the day.
There are a few - very few - yachties sticking it out for the summer down there. They said all they got out of the hurricane was 20 knots of wind and a few sprinkles.
Sept 16, Saturday
We are breakfast at “Rosa’s” then went by the dry storage- and guess who was back from the States painting the bottom of -- True Blue, so we visited the gang for awhile and headed out. We went on in to Tucson and stayed in a motel which was extra nice.
Sept 17, Sunday
We left Tucson and got home at 10:30 am- 4 days on the road, a total of 1200 long miles. Peg brought Samie home and she stayed here tonight.
Sept 20, Wednesday
We went to Pat’s for pizza tonight- Shine was working. He’s on full time there again.
Danielle came up and stayed here.
Sept 30, Saturday
Peg and Billy are staying here this weekend.
I took Peg to get her tattoo on her right ankle. She got a crescent moon and 3 stars. Cute. I hope her dad doesn’t flip out. Billy tested for and got his blue striped belt in taekwondo.
