Kathy and I have gotten most of the things done that were really pressing.  They kind of build up when you leave for 3 months!

I am now ready to share this years trip to the gold fields of the Yukon!  Well part of the pictures and commentary are about getting there.  Getting there was made much more difficult because of the poor performance of Jedi drilling in Corpus Christi Texas.  They lied to me about the condition of the Morooka with the drill I bought from them.  They didn’t do repairs and shorted me on drill augers.  Bill Jones, owner of Jedi drilling said he would send a refund for at least some of the things he shorted me.  He has of course forgotten to send anything.  It was a used machine, so I am responsible for the mechanics of the machine that are not visible, but the machine wouldn’t turn when it got to Bellingham ferry terminal.  I could have saved thousands of dollars if Bill Jones would have told me it still didn’t turn very well.  I could have taken it to our shop to start with.  Jedi Drilling is certainly responsible for the costs of the repair they charged me for and didn’t do, and the 5 drill sections they shorted me.

And this was the easy part!

It was a fairly big job, but Kathy and I worked hard and with help from a few others we got the Morooka to the gold fields.  My brothers, Robert and Ron, Roger and Randy Brown and Israel from Premier Hydraulics, all went beyond normal efforts to make the repairs and send us north.  Now that I think about it, maybe they just wanted us to leave………naw!

Robert honored us with this self portrait. I guess I should be happy this is all he put on the camera! Note to self: Do not leave Robert alone with camera.
Other than that he helped out a lot!

I taught Kathy how to weld……she welded a lot, MIG and stick! What a woman!

Amazing what some us will do to keep from having a real job!