I stll can't get all of a thread with a bunch of gif's. I think maybe our server people put come kind of limit on how many bytes we can pull up on a site.

Anyway, we are having some beautiful weather here on the lower left coast, but we need some rain badly, I think England and Europe more than got our share this winter. My freesias are about to bloom and my neighbor's daffodils are spreading their bright sunshine yellow all over the place. But I'd still rather be on Bonaire.

linnea, yes, isn't the weather great! I went down to the beach at lunch a couple of weeks ago and took a bunch of pics. I am thinking of putting together a left coast bbq in april, what do you think?

Hello fellow left-coasters. Looks quite pretty outside here in the upper left corner, but the frost was evident this morning. Brrr. The crocus are in bloom. The daffodils have emerged, but I haven't seen many buds open yet. A rhododendron in my neighborhood is in bloom, rather ahead of the others, I'm sure. We have all four seasons up here, but winter is rather brief in the Willamette Valley.

Linnea, I have had trouble loading threads with gifs from the start of the fad. I think we chatters could put a limit on them without the involvement of the moderators and their server settings. Just my $.02. Cheers, ;-) Niki

niki, did you hear from kerri? all the flower talk reminds me of her:-) I am checking on airfairs daily, and i am hoping that we will be in bon from june 3rd to the 14th. May even take 2 weeks if michael can work it out. wouldn't that be fabulous! (i have a hard time opening the threads from home, so i usually don't even try!)

linnea, he still wants to go through san juan (ug)...what day are you flying to bon from sj? and what airlines? i am trying to work out the first leg using our amex rewards, then will have to pay for the last leg. hoping that will be cheaper!

here is a pic from san clemente looking north toward the dana point harbor...

Cynde, I didn't get a reply from Kerri. The mail didn't bounce, but I don't know if she's seen it yet. Makes us worry a little, doesn't it?

I like the beach view. Here's one from a recent trip to the Oregon coast:

I actually stitched that together from two digital pictures taken from the same spot as I rotated a bit. If I had had Jake's 360 gizmo you would have seen Hwy 101, the same road you have down there, eh?

yep! i drove from la to seattle one summer and astoria oregon and coos bay were my favorite. the coast of oregon is just beautiful! here is a map of the oregon coast hwy 101

Linnea and Nikki, and anyone else having problems with the .gif upload.. Perhaps this would be an idea.. Start a thread with "Please No Gifs" I'm sure we, the gifers.. will honor your request, just as Jake honored our request for a place that we could do our gifing..
Love the pictures!!!

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Nice pictures girls, the coast looks tempting... Maybe some day...

Cynde, do you all ready know where you want to stay on Bon??

Cynde, my sister and I are flying Continental from SNA to SJU via EWR on May 28, staying in San Juan until May 31, then flying American Eagle to BON. We will stay on BON until June 14, then AE to SJU until June 16 and then home to SNA via EWR.
Round trip air is slightly more than $900 for both legs combined.

We are staying at Hotel Milano in PR. The hotel has rooms with one double bed for $85 per night, if you want to break your travel time up into two pieces. Hotel Milano is in the center of Old San Juan, not too far from El Morro Castle. The hotel has gotten good reviews on Travelocity, which is one of the main reasons I picked it.

How is Michael's job situation, or has he managed to get a business going with some of his other laid off co-workers?

freddie, good idea!

martin, are you tempted? 2004 or 2005 vacation planned yet??? we would really like to stay at the zale's condominium at sand$, but it is a 2 bedroom, and we are going major budget this time. we are pretty much convinced on buddy's cause you get the car, room, and dive package for a good price. plus it is right next to bari reef, my favorite dive at 5 place

linnea, if we fly back on the 14th through sj, we may be on the same flight! I will keep this hotel in mind, as what i am trying to work out is fly to sj on the 3rd, then on to bonaire the 4rth (unless we go for 2 weeks!) no job for michael yet. the opportunity with the old project did not pan out...he has a couple of other things up his sleeve, we will know for sure in march on one option he is looking at. what do you think of the so cal bbq in april? you game?

Yes we are... No plans so far but you never can tell... Buddy is nice, never been to Bari reef (I think ) you forget one other good reason: It's on walking distance of our favorite internet hangout...

Night all, I'm off.

Freddie, that is a good idea. Since you have kindly suggested it, it sounds fine to me. I can sometimes chat as aimlessly and amiably as the next Bonaire addict, and without gifs I will be able to load threads.
Well, off now to my volunteer stint at the local theater playhouse where I do a box office shift in return for tickets to the shows. Talk to you guys later!

Since this is a left coast (U.S.) thread, anyone want to plan a BT get-together in the San Diego area the week of Christmas 2004 (yes 23 months from now). We'll be going there to spend Christmas with my brother then (gotta plan ahead!).

Jake

Nice, Jake! Wish we were likely to go south, but I'd be surprised.

Cynde, my photo was taken between Florence and Yachats. (Locals, pronounce that second name! It's how we know ourselves from the infiltrators!)

Linnear. What happens when you try to get onto a thread with gifs on it. Does your computer freeze? Annie B.

jake, i will designate myself! we are about an hour north of sd, but as i grew up there, a bbq at mission bay would be fantastic! How's that for a start?

oh, jake, what dates are you going to be there?

Cyndy, a BBQ in April sounds great, and getting together at Mission Bay at Xmas time sounds great, Mother Nature permitting. If the weather doesn't permit, maybe we can take over one of the SD Rubio's Baja Grills for an afternoon (unofficially, of course).

No, my computer doesn't lock-up, it just stops loading the messages on the thread, so I never see the 'Add a Message' and such at the bottom of the thread.

Don't know for sure yet other than we definitely need to be there for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day... Need to be back on Bonaire for New Year's Eve though, which is a Friday. Hmmm. I guess I'll commit now to flying into SD on December 16th (Thursday) and departing on the 28th (a Tuesday - want to catch AJ on Tuesday night to MoBay if they are still flying on that day. My brother's going to be living somewhere west and north of PB by a little (he lives in PB now with his wife, but are buying a house elsewhere - don't recall which town).

Jake

Jake, I hope your brother doesn't move too much to the west or he will be out on the Coronados with the seagulls and pelicans.

Cynde, I'm surprised you didn't catch that one.

Oops, I meant North and _east_ - good catch!

Jake

linnea, just read it...so you caught it before i did! i grew up in PB! lived on soledad mountain road and went to Mission Bay High School on Grand Avenue! my old stompin grounds

Ok, I will put it on my calendar and put my thinking cap on I will post something about an april so cal bbq elsewhere and see who is game!

Cynde, if you and Michael plan on doing the Continental SNA/EWR/SJU, you will have to stay in SJU for one night. The Cont. flight arrives in SJU at 10:40pm as currently scheduled and the AE flight to BON leaves at 5:40pm. The return flights give you about 2 hours in SJU on the way back, if your AE flight is anywhere near on time. It costs more than the AJ red-eye flight, but I decided it was worth it. The ~$900 is per person, plus the overnight hotel and at least two meals, Michael is going to have to decide which is going to hurt more, his poor ol' red-eyes or your wallets.

Hi gang! Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted. The PBD got me down for a while. Then spent a few weeks in India for business and had a little time for pleasure. Lot’s too catch up on. Looks like we might get snowed in tomorrow should be a good day to catch up on all I’ve missed.

Jake, love the new format! Guess I’ve got to get to work to break the 1000 post mark.

Just put NO GIFS into the TITLE of the thread and I'll do my best not to forget and slow ya down! It'll be like having a fast lane. LOL

Oh - I wanted to mention, too, that if a thread won't load because of the images just shut off the images temporarily in your preferences and you can load the thread much faster. I have to do it occasionally at heavily loaded pages, too. Darn dial-ups!

We should keep the threads short, too - the 40 limit seems to work pretty well - sometimes we tend to dribble out another twenty or thirty messages without realizing it!

good idea rusty, i didn't know you could shut the images off in a thread, do you set it on your internet options area? never done that before...

linnea, our amex rewards have continental and delta, i figure if i can exchange them for a ticket to sj, then pay for sj to bon, hopefully it won't be too bad. i havent checked that leg in a while. last time it was around 350.00pp round trip!

Rusty, good idea. It's too bad that IE doesn't offer us the chance to suppress GIFs and allow JPEGs. I do want to see the webcams and other original pictures. Those are really the whole focus of the site, for me. Sometimes good webcam captures are posted somewhere in CC but not in BWebCams threads, although I know some are diligently posted in both places. I have adjusted to the idea that even if frequent viewers and posters capture a neat picture it may be buried in CC and I'll never know about it. Or the questions and answers about it may only go there. Ah, well... That's the way the cookie crumbles... :-)

Cynde Lee and Niki, absolutely breathtaking shots....my heart was pounding when I peered into each one. I absolutely LOVE the Left Coast of this US of A......gorgeous shots. Thanks for making my day today, ladies. Carole

PS Niki, your shot reminds me of Point Reyes a little bit...so peaceful and unspoiled.

Cynde, Travelocity has AE for SJU/BON at $310 round trip.

I won't be able to post anything until Tuesday. I'm at my mother's on Lake Havasu and her keyboard is driving me nuts. It is set up so different from mine that I keep losing what I have keyed.