Laura and Sasha's Excellent Adventure

I have been working on a new design, plus working as a Park Ranger at Canyonlands, so the website has not been updated in a while. Learning Dreamweaver on the side, plus how to use a Mac laptop makes Laura very late on the current website...I hope to have some of it up soon. Thanks for your patience. You can see the look and some of the pages at:

www.Laura-n-Sasha.com/blog

Let us know how you like/dislike by either sending an email or posting on the guestbook. All of the links are not yet up, but will be soon (I hope).

I have updated for today, March 21st, there are pictures on January, February and March. Check them out!

To our Parents, family and friends - we are fine, doing well, but still without internet at our site. We do occasionally go to a house for their internet, but no cell service. We are hoping for this week March 22nd that Frontier will come out and we will finally have DSL, keep your fingers crossed!

Uploaded January and February expenses. We are going to be going into an area of no internet and cell phone, starting today, March 13th. I will try to upload at least once more before we get to Canyonlands But then updates will be spotty...or business as usual!

We were in Cottonwood Cove, Lake Mead for Three Days! Some nice pictures are on the way in the March 2010 page. Found out that my Background Check went through, took 9 days to get it done this time, not too bad! So we are headed to Canyonlands National Park. Finally finished off the 2009 Yearly Expenses, they are now up. Obviously, there are some high expenses at the end of the year, I made a couple of new categories for this year, including some One-Time Expenses (like buying a new rig!) And also show you the previous' years' expenses.

Staying at Suncoast Casino in Las Vegas, in their parking lot. It is supposed to rain on Saturday and Sunday, so we are sticking around. Sasha was able to complete the taxes, and thankfully, we will be getting some refunds. Putting in the Solar helped us out tremendously, we went from owing taxes to getting a refund. Yea!

We have left Lake Mead NRA, but are still in Las Vegas Area. We got our axles on the RV switched so that when we go over bumps, we do not hit the bottom back. We also decided that since the weekend (March 6 & 7) was going to be rainy, we should just stay put someplace warm and paved lot. So we are at Suncoast Casino and Hotel, in Summerlin, NV (a suburb of Las Vegas.) We are doing our taxes here, figured it is good to get that over with. Sasha is doing them via e-file, so far so good. No major yelling and no computers crashing. We might even get some money back.

Yes, I know that it is March! Took a while to get the website up to speed. So a little disclaimer for you all, I do not do the website on a regular basis - I really do try, but so many things get in the way.

Like finding out that we will be going to Canyonlands National Park this summer - had to get the paperwork done, fingerprinting, giving the names of people the investigators can contact to make sure I am a reliable person, all the paperwork...etc, etc. Just because I had one done last year does not mean I am a reliable and credit-worthy person it seems, I have to go through it all again. BUT, supposedly, this will be good for 5 years! So, NEXT year, I won't have to go through this all again. And won't that be a relief?

What this means for us is that we are in a holding pattern until the paperwork comes through. So what we decided to do is this: I will work one more day at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, then we will pack up on Thursday, and head over to Auto Safety House to get the axles on the camper switched (that will be on Friday March 5th) and then we will head down to Death Valley. We figure if we are there for a little bit, we could mosey on up to Utah, taking our sweet time and be close for when the call or email comes in to go to work. Sounds like a plan, right?

So I have the expenses up for January and February, plus the Expenses for the Year of 2009 is now up. Granted, we bought an RV and the necessary things for it and so the expenses of normal living is in the top portion of the spreadsheet, then the extras are in the lower portion. If it is too confusing, let me know and switch it around better.

We are now in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. We have been here since January 5th. I have been so busy applying for jobs and working/volunteering at the visitor center, I have not gotten onto the website to update. But I will soon, as I want to let you all know about the expenses for 2009, and all. It will happen soon, just taking a little while. Also, even though I am volunteering, I will be doing a program, so I am having to write that up at home, because when I am at the visitor center, I do not have the time to do it then. Anyway, we are good and healthy and life is great, just a little busy. Please check back, I will get a few more things up here, including some fabulous pictures. Thanks!

Happy New Year Everyone! We are now in Arizona for the New Year, and will be heading to Nevada shortly. It is a bit windy here, but the sun is shining, and the weather is a balmy ~ 70 degrees!