Seven hours on the road from Chester and we’re finally home, sixteen days and 2518 miles later. We averaged about 50 mpg in the Prius: up to 55 mpg in gentle mountain terrain and as low as 44 mpg on I-5 at 70 mph.
Here’s a Google Map of our travels; I’ll be filling in the [...]
Bumpass Hell, that is, in Lassen Volcanic National Park.
We started out this morning at Burney Falls, a beautiful 129-foot waterfall about 45 minutes north of the park. It may look familiar to Tarzan fans, for it was used as the backdrop for one of the early Tarzan movies with Johnnie Weismuller.
Burney Falls
Then on to [...]
Today we left Ashcroft House with the intention of visiting both the Butterfly Gardens and Butchart Gardens, which are fairly close to each other north of Victoria. But we never made it to Butchart Gardens. Instead, we spent almost three hours entranced by our close encounter with thousands of flying jewels.
A close encounter of the [...]
Last night we stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lake Oswego, and this morning visited my former mother-in-law, Mom Powers: 96 years old and still going strong.
A morning with Mom Powers
She lives in a very nice senior community, but complains that most of her acquaintances there just want to “sit around and eat [...]
Yesterday we drove up 101 from Mendocino to the Oregon Caves Chateau, where we had a splendid dinner in one of the wonderful buildings built by the WPA. (Pity that the current financial crisis is unlikely to generate anything like this!)
Dinner at the Oregon Caves Chateau
Today we toured the caves themselves: 500 stairs down and [...]
We started our vacation with a two-day stay in Mendocino, visiting Deborah’s sister, Elizabeth and her spouse Melissa. It took us about four hours to get to Boonville, where we had an early dinner at Lauren’s Cafe in Boonville and then drove on to Melissa’s condo in Mendocino.
Today, Elizabeth and Melissa took Deborah hiking while [...]
Tomorrow we’re taking off on our first real vacation in four years: a driving tour up to British Columbia and back.
The inspiration for the trip was my taking up the clarinet again after about 15 years and getting really serious about it. One of the world’s foremost clarinet experts is in Burnaby (a suburb [...]
We’re off on our first real vacation together in four years tomorrow, so Sunday we took Oka, our German Shepherd dog, down to the Steinbeckland Kennels run by David Deleissegues, who originally helped us train him. Here’s Oka in the outside kennel, which gives him a view of David when he’s working in the yard [...]
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