Globe-trotting with The Friday Flyer in 2015

Each year, as they travel to locations around the globe, Canyon Lakers are invited to display a copy of The Friday Flyer with themselves in photographs and submit them to the newspaper to be featured in “Near and Far with The Friday Flyer.”

Each January, the editorial staff chooses the photographs that represent the “most.” This year, the categories are Most Humorous Pose, Most Interesting Backdrop and Most Unusual Destination.

Whether it’s a trip around the world or a special get-together in Canyon Lake, The Friday Flyer invites all residents to take a photo with their community newspaper and send it to news@goldingpublications.com. Photos of all vacations are welcome, but to be considered for Near and Far with The Friday Flyer and the year-end globe-trotting article, a copy of The Friday Flyer must be displayed in the picture.

The following are locations Canyon Lake residents traveled this past year, taking along The Friday Flyer.

• University of Michigan student Lauren Thatcher studied abroad in Prague and, while there, visited Cesky Krimia, Litomerce, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast, Florence, Venice, Murano and Burano.
• Steve Martin traveled to Ramona Airport in San Diego for a “thrilling” ride in the vintage P-51 Mustang “Six Shooter,” a gift from his wife.
• The Hicks family, Bobby and Shayna with sons Austin and Parker, took a road trip to Colorado to visit friends and show Parker where he was born.
• Ron and Leigh Martel celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary with a cruise to Nassau, Bahamas.
• Randy and Mavis Schutz took a 35-day 9,498-mile cruise to South America. They visited Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (shortly after Hurricane Odile hit), Puntarenas, Costa Rica and Peru. They also docked in several cities in Chile and Argentina, sailed around Cape Horn and stopped to the Falkland Islands, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
• Cathy Michener, Diana Garza, Donna Ritchie, Jenny Teperson, Sosy Robinson and Michelle Sites participated in the 5K charity, glow-in-the-dark Blacklight Run at Storm Stadium.
• After hearing about the location from a Storm player they sponsored, Christy, Mark and Trevor Novins decided to vacation in the Dominican Republic, where they took an excursion to Toros Baseball Stadium, home of a local professional baseball team.
• Canyon Lakers and Travel Club members Gail and Bob McCall, Gail and Jack Ruzicka, Joanie and Bob Sundstrom, Linda Brown, Cathy Buell, Connie Lunney and Jeannette Williams took a tour through Chile where they visited Santiago, Valparaiso, Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas before going over the Andes Mountains and into Argentina, where they visited Buenos Aries, Iguassu Falls and Rio De Janeiro.
• Hans and Linda Weg enjoyed a 12-day cruise to the Caribbean, making stops in St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Curacao, Aruba and, finally, Cozumel, Mexico.
• The Hicks family, Bobby and Shayna with sons Austin and Parker, went to Costa Rica, where they celebrated Austin’s 17th birthday.
• Members of the Senior Chair Volleyball Club, along with several guests, took a whale-watching cruise out of Newport Beach.
• The Keith family, Ted and Kerry, Tanner, Mackenna and Zander has really “cool” memories of their ski trip in Aspen, Colorado.
• A bus load of Travel Club members visited the “Pageant of Our Lord” show at Rolling Hills Covenant Church, a unique presentation of the life of Christ through living reproductions of famous works of art.
• A group of Canyon Lake women – Susan French, Karen Bevans, Kathy West, Donna Ritchie, Kellie Welty, Nicole McNaughton, Pei Pei Gunter, Cathy Michener and Fran Tibbet – enjoyed a wine tasting tour in Temecula, including a stop at South Coast Winery.
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  Hans Weg poses for another fun photo.

  Hans and Linda Weg took their 1965 Ford Galaxy and drove to Rialto to stay at the Wigwam Motel, built in 1949. They also visited the McDonalds Museum in San Bernardino.

• The Roadrunners Club enjoyed their time at the Pechanga RV Resort.
• Scott and Gaye Enoch traveled to New York City, where they visited Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center and saw a Broadway show.
• Karina Bowen reconnected with a part of her family’s history when she visited Germany with her grandfather, Airman Chasten L. Bowen, who is one of the last surviving U.S. Military POWs held at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
• Canyon Lake Middle School and Lake Elsinore High School partnered up to visit Washington D.C. and New York with the Worldstrides Discover Now Program.
• Thirty-three members and guests of the Canyon Lake Travel Club took a three-day trip to Death Valley, staying at Scotty’s Castle and stopping at the Pahrump Valley Winery.
• Kris McDonald and Shayna Hicks took a “girls-only” trip to Turks and Caicos in the British Virgin Islands to see Kris’ daughter, Miranda, a pastry chef at Club Med Turquoise.
• Canyon Laker Bob Burns, a Delta Airlines pilot, arranged his flight schedule to make a most memorable Mother’s Day trip to Maui, Hawaii for his wife, Michelle.
• Twenty rigs with members of the Roadrunners Club stayed at the Shadow Hills RV Resort in Indio with a side tour of Coachella Valley Farms, and golf at Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort in Palm Springs.
• Ginny Furnish (“Miss Ginny” of Library fame) visited family members in Burke, Virginia with her brother and sister-in-law, as well as going on a tour of Washington D.C.
• Roadrunners Club members had 23 rigs at the East Shore RV Park in San Dimas and enjoyed various activities, including a golf game at the Mountain Meadows Golf Course.
• Hans Weg cashed in his Christmas gift from his grandson – a flight on a 1930s Stearman open cockpit Pt-13 airplane at the Chino Airport.
• Carmelita Kubota calls Japan home during the summer, going to her niece’s wedding, relaxing at a luxurious hot springs and helping the Manila (Philippines) Rotary Club..
• John and Shannon Kush celebrated their second anniversary and first family vacation since the birth of their 7-month-old son, Dorian Kush, staying at an all-inclusive resort in Cancun, Mexico.
• Tracy and Diane Heller flew 10,000 miles and spent over two months visiting family in Australia, where they traveled and enjoyed many Aussie experiences.
• Scott Enoch enjoyed his first trip to “The (Colorado) River” with wife Gaye along with friend and fellow Canyon Laker Jimmie Aguilar as well as others.
• Ed and Diane Robinson celebrated Diane’s 70th birthday by taking a short cruise to Mexico, leaving from San Pedro Harbor and spending a day at Catalina Island before cruising two more days to Ensenada.
• Joe and Carmel Lemke went to the U.S. Senior Open 3-Day golf tournament at the Del Paso Country Club in Sacramento.
• Pastor Pete and Pat Van Dyke took a group of 54 adventurers from from Canyon Lake Community Church to discover America’s history and learn about the faith of its Founding Fathers along the historic East Coast with World Strides/Christian Discoveries.
• Melissa and Mark Harris took a two-week road trip to visit Melissa’s daughter in Bismarck, North Dakota, stopping at the famous Mt. Rushmore.
• Cousins Alexa McKee and Nicole Allen, both of Canyon Lake, enjoyed a trip to Washington DC with former Canyon Lake resident and relative, Ruby Miller.
• Scott and Gaye Enoch enjoyed a Mediterranean cruise, visiting Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Cannes, Italy, Corsica and Rome.
• The Wegs stopped at another unusual location, Bedrock City (a Flintstone attraction), along their journey to the Grand Canyon. They also checked out a 1935 Ford firetruck for sale in Arizona.
• Carmelita Kubota flew to Manila, Philippines to visit with family and to accept a special award, “Ambassador of Goodwill” from the Rotary Club of Navotas, Rotary International District 3800.
• The Roadrunners RV Club took their fifth trip of the year with 24 rigs to the Chula Vista RV Resort.
• Canyon Lakers, many from the Chair Volleyball Club and Travel Club, took a trip to Fairbanks, Alaska, then a riverboat cruise to Denali for four days in Denali National Park and finally, a train back to their cruise ship for a seven-day cruise.
• Dave and Barbara Spraul took a 10-day Tauck motor coach tour, “Canada’s Capital Cities and Niagara Falls,” beginning in Toronto and visiting Niagara Falls, Ottawa and Quebec City.
• Jeannette Williams and Cathy Buell, who were on a two-week vacation in Puerto Vallarta, experienced a scare when they had to be escorted to a concrete shelter during Hurricane Patricia, before enjoying their “typical” resort vacation.
• Ray and Devlin Fillmore spent two weeks in Puerto Vallarta then were told their flight home was cancelled due to Hurricane Patricia. The governor said they would need to evacuate to an inland location. Overall though, they had a great time.
• Gabe and Eva Visy, Melanie Otten and Maria Jancovics enjoyed a seven-day cruise of Alaska’s Inland Passage, where they visited glaciers, waterfalls and other sites.
• Dona Jessup was excited to re-experience Kelsey’s at the Pechanga Resort and Casino after its $2.5 million and almost four-month renovation.
• After 15 years, Chuck and Cathy Hawley moved away from the Continental Cove townhouses to another Canyon Lake home, so their neighbors threw them a party.
• Scott and Gaye Enochs celebrated their anniversary with a week-long trip to an all-inclusive resort in Puerto Vallarta, where they enjoyed perfect weather, warm water and “fantastically friendly and fun” people and even ate iguana for Thanksgiving.
• Carmelita Kubota spent a week in New York City before Christmas. She was there for a catering engagement, but also got to visit such memorable sites as the One World Observatory and One Mix restaurant in the World Trade Center.