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West Coast Holiday 2016, Avenue of the Giants-Part One
Timeline: December 25, 2016 – January 5, 2017 With a full day ahead of us that Tuesday, we were up and out the door 9:00am having breakfasted in the room and performed our morning routines of stretching and other rituals similar to those we all perform each day. Our goal for the day would be […]
West Coast Holiday 2016, Part One
Timeline: December 25, 2016 – January 5, 2017 Upon returning home from our fall west coast trip, the days turned into weeks and those into months, as we spent time with friends, riding our bikes, hosting our nephew Dillon (with a surprise addition from sister Bev) at Thanksgiving and preparing for the Christmas holiday […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Kansas, Part One
Timeline: October 19-22 We broke camp and set out around 10:00 am enabling us to make a stop at the Pueblo site we’d visited two days earlier so that Joanna could purchase a ceramic horse she wanted to bring home. With a seven-hour drive ahead of us and knowing we’d be staying in a motel, […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Albuquerque, Part Two
Timeline: October 16-18 Our goal for our last day in town was to get in a moderately long day hike, do a bit more random sightseeing and eat dinner at a well-known Albuquerque restaurant, The Range Café. After a leisurely morning in camp where we scouted out hiking options, we set out for the […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Albuquerque, Part One
Timeline: October 16-18 The first half of our drive to Albuquerque was off the interstate as we made way on the diagonal from Scottsdale up to the I-40 in Holbrook, which lies about 30 miles east of Winslow, where Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne are still standing on a corner looking at a girl, my […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Scottsdale and Taliesin West
Timeline: October 15-16 After cleaning up the condo and loading the car we drove to a gas station near the I-5 to fill the Highlander, hit a Starbucks to redeem a reward, getting one of their very good breakfast sandwiches, and then jumped on the freeway to start the seven hour drive to Scottsdale and […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Solana Beach, Part Three
Timeline: October 8-14 As planned for that Thursday, we set out on the bikes to ride down to San Diego. I’ve ridden these roads and this route a number of times so could rely on memory for most of it and found it served me well. No sooner had we started riding then there was […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Solana Beach, Part Two
Timeline: October 8-14 Jessica and Kris had a early flight out Monday morning and after we dropped them off at the airport, Kim, Marty, Joanna, and I drove west towards through Ocean Beach and Sunset Cliffs to Point Loma to spend some time at Cabrillo National Monument. On the way in, not long after you […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Solana Beach, Part One
Timeline: October 8-14 We departed Café Calypso and made the drive down to Solana Beach, an easy enough on a Saturday morning without much traffic, pulling up in front of the condo complex. Marty met us outside, directing us into the parking garage where we off-loaded our gear and got our first glimpse at their […]
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