Ryan Fields

Vacationing on the seashore in Mexico

While we were riding together last weekend, our group was talking about taking a vacation trip this winter to escape the cold weather for a week or two.  One of the gals there suggested that we look into going to Puerto Penasco, which is in Mexico.  So I was looking on the Internet at the Sea Side Reservations website to find out more information about things to do in Puerto Penasco.  It looked like they have a huge variety of things to do - horseback riding, para-sailing, going to Bird Island, snorkeling and scuba diving, jet skiing, and banana boat rides, are just a few of the activities that are available in the area.  It sounds like it would be a lot of fun to go there, so I’m going to talk to the guys about it again next weekend and see what they have to say about the plan.

My buddy wants to open an auto body repair shop

Skip wants to go into a partnership with me to start up an auto body repair shop.  He says he wants to join the Collision Repair Experts network of auto body shops.  The Collision Repair Experts is a national organization of body shops.  Skip says that there aren’t any Collision Repair Expert body shop locations in our area, so he thinks we would have a wide open market.

So much rain

There has been so much rain around here lately that it has been hard to do any outside work.  My mother had hired some people to do some remodeling of her house and they got their trucks stuck up to the axles in her back yard!  They tore her back yard up very badly trying to get unstuck!  They also ruined her drain field for her septic system!  What a mess!  We told them that they were going to have to pay to have the lawn fixed, and the drain field, and they weren’t happy to hear that at all!  But they should have known better than to have driven over the lawn and drain field!  Big dummies!

Moratorium on fast food restaurants

i was reading on the Time.com website that LA has put a one year moratorium on new fast food restaurants in their low income district.  The rationale behind that move is that this particular low income area is overflowing with obese people.  The city council that put this moratorium in place thinks that by putting this restriction in, a better class of restaurants will open in the area, offering healthier foods.

I think that if this is a low income area, the residents will not be able to afford to go to these “better class” of restaurants to eat.  You can go to a fast food restaurant and order healthy foods, such as salads.  These people are choosing to eat unhealthy foods because they can afford it and they want it.  They will get it SOMEWHERE, even if it means going to the grocery store and buying the junk food there. 

I’d be really surprised if any of those “better class” of restaurants even TRY to open up in that area, the target market for that type of restaurant does not exist there.  It would be a losing proposition.

My friends and I enjoy playing paintball

My friends and I enjoy playing paintball quite a bit.  We were sad when the local paintball field closed.  I think they weren’t making enough money because the good weather season is so short around here.  I think that they should have diversified somehow to be able to make money during the winter, too.  So now we have to travel further to get our paintball fun.  We don’t mind too much, it’s an extra fifteen minute drive and the fun is well worth the travel! We’ve been talking about buying some new paintball gear from the Ultimate Paintball website, pntball.com. They are having a sale on Tippmann and Spyder paintball sets right now, and they offer free shipping on all online orders exceeding $99, so this is a good time to be buying new gear!