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West Coast Summer 2024, Part Two
July 28– August 13, 2024 We had a quiet weekend after our bowling outing and soon enough Monday morning rolled around and we loaded up the Highlander with Joanna, Jessica, Gemma, and me for the seven-hour drive to Kamp Angst. We’d be embarking on a few long days of driving, and we were all curious […]
West Coast Summer 2024, Part One
July 28– August 13, 2024 We would start this relatively short seventeen-day road trip with a couple of objectives. First would be to see a good concert, second to spend a few days at home before heading north to Oakland where after a couple of days we would take off for Oregon with Jessica and […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Six
April 26 – May 13, 2024 We left Lindy and Greg’s house in the late morning for the short drive to Solana Beach for a night’s stay at Kim and Marty’s condo, enabling us to head to the Belly Up later that night to see Bob Schneider and his band play. Our friend Mark introduced […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Five
April 26 – May 13, 2024 For our last day in Tucson, we committed to being tourists. As we’d done much of the town in prior trips, this time around we’d be heading to sights some drive away. Our first stop would be Kartchner Caverns, about an hour out of town. We first encountered the […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Four
April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our first order of business the next day was to climb on our bikes and get a ride in on the Tucson Loop (Huckelberry Bike Path), a network of shared-use paths, maintained by Pima County, that when completed will comprise 131 miles of paved trails dedicated to cyclist, pedestrian, […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Three
April 26 – May 13, 2024 With a day to fill and not able to do much physically, we got creative. Our first stop would be at the Riordan Mansion State Historic Park. This park features the duplex home of Timothy and Michael Riordan, lumber baron brothers who married sisters, Caroline and Elizabeth Metz. The […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Two
April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our last day in Zion would be a simple one, that is we would get on our bikes and ride up the canyon to the end. We took off in the late morning and rode into the park, a gradual climb of about 500 feet that was easy to […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part One
April 26 – May 13, 2024 We returned home from New Zealand and Australia and immediately drove north to Oakland to help celebrate our granddaughter Gemma’s birthday, returning home the following week to catch up on all that we had missed while being gone. I saw my GP about the hip and fortunately had a […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Sydney, Part Three
February 2 – 6, 2024 As mentioned in the prior post, our outing for the day would be to the Hyde Park Barracks, directly across the street from the park of the same name. Joanna and I rode over in an Uber from the Tramsheds while the rest of the gang walked the roughly three […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Sydney, Part Two
February 2 – 6, 2024 The next day would feature another highlight, a tour of the world-famous Sydney Opera House. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbor, it is widely regarded as one of the world’s most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, but completed […]
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