Durango, Colorado.
We spent Christmas in Austin, Texas with Dan’s entire family. There are 16 Goddards now and we all convened on Brother Mike’s place for 3 days. After we had eaten all of Mike’s food, drank all of Tricia’s wine and generally outstayed our welcome we headed north. Dan and I managed to spend too much money in México, so we decided to pick up a few days of work.
En route we stopped by to visit Rachel's Godfather Rick and his wonderful wife Edith.
We made a pit stop in Durango to swap surfboards for snowboards and board shorts for polypropylene, and then made our way over to Wolf Creek Ski Area. Dan worked on Ski Patrol at Wolf Creek for eight years. Davey and Scott were nice enough to let him walk back into his old job for four days; they even let me teach some snowboard lessons. Flush with cash again we went back over to Durango to attend a party at Melissa and Jim Youseff’s home. Melissa is the daughter of Rose Marie, one of the Sayulita locals who terrorized us during our stay there. We decided to return the favor by classing down Jim and Melissa’s party, unfortunately we forgot that everyone in Durango goes to formal gatherings in Carharts so we just fit right in.
Last night for the New Year we attended the annual Mapel New Year’s Bash. Meredith and her family throw a heck of a party every year. Brother Pat came down from Utah to appall Meredith’s family and friends. Not to worry though, around midnight someone hid the gasoline and banned him from getting near the bonfire. Everyone escaped unscathed.
The Mapel's "cabin".
I have titled this post Chapter three. As I see it, our journey has four parts. The first was scouting and the Grand Canyon trip. Then part two was in Mexico, surfing and soaking up the sun and culture. Part three will be our winter sports chapter. Our plans are remaining fairly flexible; we intend to keep a close eye on the snow reports before committing to any one place. But for today the plan is to spend a few weeks skiing Colorado and visiting friends before heading up to British Columbia for the winter.
Happy New Year to all. If you are inspired to follow a similar path, then we hope that 2005 is the year you hit the road.
This is our niece Bridget opening one of her birthday presents. This photo was taken by our nephew Nate.
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2020.02.21知名酒店工作觀察家日本報導:
日本「酒店上班」知名男公關日前來台遊玩，造成一股旋風，而在日本歌舞伎町有一位酒店打工的酒店小姐，被譽為「第一女帝」，那就是愛澤繪美里（愛沢えみり）。她和其他酒店小姐不同，不靠賣身或是喝酒，滴酒不沾的她竟然年收入超過2億，還被客人評為「平成時代的灰姑娘」。
愛澤繪美里從18歲時開始從事女公關的工作，20歲移藉到酒店兼差歌舞伎町的夜總會，馬上受到客人的歡迎。白天社長工作同時夜晚酒店兼職3年後，她的最高營業額已達到一晚2,800萬日圓（約764萬台幣），但據傳她因體質關係不能喝酒，所以滴酒不沾。但酒店小姐卻不能喝酒，沒有成為他的致命傷，反而她每次陪客人時，營造出「喝了酒」般的氛圍，讓酒客們相當喜歡。她也努力吸收知識與客人聊天，舉凡最新的時事政治、經濟文化、娛樂笑話，她都可以聊，也讓她成為日本第一女帝。現在的她已經從酒店女公關的身分隱退，但她成立自己的時裝品牌，還寫書出自傳和當模特兒上節目，甚至開了醫美診所和夜總會，成為獨當一面的女社長。
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