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Started the day by heading with Lou down to San Jose. We stopped along the way at a Home Depot to get some bricks for a project for Lou and a lunch of hot dogs. At The Tech Museum of Innovation we started our tour of the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit when they had to...
We drove south on US-101 trying to make time. We did stop at one California state park to drive through a giant redwood, but then scooted over to CA-1 at Olema and visited the campground where we stayed on our Honeymoon. Crossed the Golden Gate bridge into San...
Driving down US 101 we were awed by the Coastal Redwoods. These giant trees boggle the mind. We stopped to see one known just as Big Tree. It is 304 feet tall, 21.5 feet in diameter, and 1500 years old. We hiked in Stout's Grove, visited a tree hollowed by fire that...
Woke up in Nevada but then crossed the border into California and headed for Lassen Volcanic Park. Here volcanic history has occurred within the last 100 years and photos document the 1914-15 eruptions. Geothermal features such as mudpots, geysers, and fumaroles dot...
Do you know the way to San Jose? While poking around in gift shops on Tuesday we found a postcard of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California which both Meg and Steve had heard about so we opted to drive down early Wednesday morning. It's a fascinating 160...
See List of Maritime Historical Park Video See Last of the Lumber Schooners Video Finally a nice day! Not exactly sunny but at least not raining. We drove a couple of miles to Redwood City and took CalTrain up to San Francisco. We walked, rode the cable car, ate at...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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This time we learned more about the importance of planning our adventure especially when visiting a big city like Belfast.
It snowed in Iceland day before yesterday! And the secnery is phenomenal Mountains and water everywhere The unique Icelandic ponies And famed Icelandic sheep The spectacular Goðafoss, phenomenal waterfall with a link to Iceland's conversion to Christianity And even a...
Our brief visit to Lerwick, the capital of the Shetlands in Scotland gave us a taste of the culture and lifestyle of the Shetlanders and a desire to experience more.