Carole King and Cat Stevens are singing to me and Steve is tolerating it pretty well. We have made it to the ocean! I keep getting asked what it is like to be on the road together so much,what do we do? How are we getting along? Well, we read a lot, listen to books […]
Travelling
Santa Cruz Environs
Blakey was a great tour guide, exploring Santa Cruz and its surrounding area with us. We drove up to UC Santa Cruz. I didn’t get photos, but the place seemed like a ski resort without snow. The buildings didn’t look anything like any college I’ve ever seen. It is located on top of a mountain, […]
Anderson Valley
After picking up “the 1” at Leggett, just south of the Humboldt Redwoods, we headed over to the coast. Just south of Albion we turned inland again on highway 128. It was another beautiful road through another redwood forest. Eventually it opened to the Anderson Valley. The Anderson Valley is about 100 miles north of […]
Pacific
We went down the Pacific Coast Highway in Northern California for a while. We went through the seaside cities of Fort Bragg and Mendocino. The waves were huge today. It is also a little eerie when entering “tsunami zones.” Click on picture for slide show:
Crater Lake
We finally said good bye to Barbara and Hyla’s hospitality this morning, heading out toward Crater Lake National Park. It was a beautiful blue sky, which seems to only get bluer as one approaches altitude. On the way, we stopped for lunch at a rest area. We continued on, stopping at a few vista viewing […]
Barbara, Hyla, and Al
We went to Eugene, Oregon to see Barbara, Hyla, and Alfonso. Barbara is a cousin. By pure coincidence, another cousin, Susan, was visiting from Hawaii. Ellen hadn’t seen her since childhood. I first met Barbara and Hyla when they visited us in Linden Hills several years ago. We pulled up fairly late on Saturday. It […]
More Lava Fields
Driving west through Oregon I was impressed with the number of cattle. I would have expected more in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. To be sure, they were there, but upon entering Oregon, there were many more. Other observations: East of the Rockies the hay is baled in round cylinders; while west of the Rockies it […]
Scenic Byways
Spent the night in Hailey, Idaho. We were told that Sun Valley and Ketchem are too chi-chi. Headed out on the Sun Valley Scenic Byway. When we went through the pass, it opened to the Salmon River Valley of the Sawtooth Mountains National Recreation Area. This area was created in the 1970’s by the efforts […]
Gruff
Can you see the billy goats? They’re really supposed to be there. This was shot from a mountain goat viewing bridge.
Craters of the Moon
There is a place in southern Idaho called “Craters of the Moon National Monument.” We didn’t really know anything about it, but it is on the map, and on our way. We spent the night in West Yellowstone. This morning we found a great coffee shop. It was kind of old school – in an […]