Friday, August 24, 2012

A view you'll kill for

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We've arrived at Crater Lake National Park. The view is everything you could imagine and then some. I literally gasped as we walk...

Delfino Winery

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Garry and I continue to make our way towards Seattle. Overnight we drove north along the Oregon coast as far as Bandon before turning inl...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Solitude Oregon Style

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I woke early this morning and found myself immediately mesmerised by the blue skies and foaming waves on display outside our motel. While...

Fog bound

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Gold Beach, Oregon is proving to be the perfect place to unwind as we continue making our way north.  I booked us into the Pacific Reef...

The Oregon Coast

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We've finally left the state of California. Shortly after 3pm today we crossed into Oregon as our USA West Coast road trip slowly ma...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

The friendly train called Skunk

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  In 1956 National Geographic published an article about a scenic tourist train winding its way through the coastal Redwood forests o...
Monday, August 20, 2012

The first thousand is always the hardest

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Today we clocked up the first one thousand miles of our West Coast USA road trip. The milestone occured   as we drove into Santa Rosa, ...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

Balcony by Napa

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Ink House Inn, St Helena, is our current location; or to be precise, the shaded southern balcony overlooking lush grape-laden vines...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Groveland

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It's easy to forget that the Sierra Nevada mountains were once gold rush territory. Therefore we shouldn't have been surprised to...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Deep in the heart of Yosemite

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We've reached Yosemite National Park after driving four hours across the state of California. We made Wawona Hotel on the park's ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The California Aqueduct

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The California Aqueduct is an impressive civil engineering feat.  Built between 1962 and 1973, its sole purpose is to divert and transfer...