Okay, I’m tired of the road trip now and I suspect Steve is too. It has been almost 2 months since we hit the road on July 5. I think we are probably both in Europe in our heads now. We fly out on September 18, 2017 and land at Gatwick Airport, London at 7am…
Beautiful Lincoln City, Oregon, with the sound of the Pacific crashing outside our motel room! We traveled to Corvallis, OR today and took a whole lot of photographs (those were for both you and me, Mom). Then, we headed through Philomoth, OR and on to the Oregon beaches. Corvallis, OR, the home of Oregon State…
The plan had been to drive up the California coast on Route 101 and to spend the night in Brookings, Oregon tonight. But, we heard last night that whole town of Brookings was evacuated due to a wildfire in the Suislaw National Forest that was coming too close. So, we tried to check with several…
WooHoo! We arrived at Benbow KOA and we were able to rent a tiny room with AC, refrigerator, TV, sink, shower, and toilet. It is sitting next to a small river (make that creek) and is pretty comfy. We stayed at the same place (different unit) on the way down the coast and we liked…
Here we are in Walnut Creek, CA again, briefly visiting with Steve’s cousin’s husband on our way back home. Yesterday, we drove through Monterey, CA. Steve wanted to see Cannery Row, made famous by John Steinbeck. It was a bit of a letdown; very commercialized and no real canneries, I’m sure those have moved on….
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden was not as beautiful as I expected and not as accessible as I had hoped. There are 78 acres of gardens, but very few plants were flowering and many looked very dry or even dying. This is probably the wrong time of year for the best viewing and I think they…
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