Now for your oddly titled post… Day six of the San Francisco trip was actually spent *in* San Francisco. We stayed close to downtown at Adante Hotel, which was good, because driving would have been near impossible, but bad because the hotel itself was kinda dumpy, and did not have… Continue reading
We made the relatively long (about 2 hours) diversion south to hit up Monterey as it was reported to be a beautiful place to go see and supposedly has a very nice, or at least well known, aquarium. We stayed maybe half an hour north of Monterey and got a… Continue reading
We stayed in Yosemite for a second night (probably because I’m cheap and the camping didn’t cost much). Day two, after packing up, we went to find the Cathedral Lakes. It was about a 45 minute drive to get there, all inside the park, which is of course, huge. We… Continue reading
So, San Francisco Day 3, happened quite a way out of San Francisco in Yosemite Valley. We drove out to the North, across some other large bridges which are not nearly as famous as the Golden Gate. We drove the three or four hours out to Yosemite National Park –… Continue reading
After leaving Muir Woods, where we ended up staying a good bit longer than originally planned, we drove down to the Golden Gate Bridge North overlook. It was a pretty foggy / cloudy day so I shot some pictures of the bridge disappearing into the clouds. We spent a few… Continue reading
Monday we woke up early and packed up to head to Muir Woods on the suggestion that it was a place best visited early before the crowds. Even with the unexpectedly long drive, winding through a lot of hilly roads, we were there just before 8. We happened to find… Continue reading
Prelude Janet and I decided to take another vacation, probably because I failed to organize a winter ski vacation. Going to San Francisco came up because, well, it’s supposed to be nice to visit and didn’t have any specific preparation requirements other than pondering what we wanted to do when… Continue reading
WPC 33 was held in Helsinki, Finland. Know for, among other things, being the home of Nokia and being a place where the sun barely sets. This likely will have been my last WPC meeting. Scott and I announced a few weeks before that we would not be up for… Continue reading
Day three of the Smoky Mountains adventure was back to hiking waterfalls, and first on the list was Laurel Falls. This had to be the most popular falls because it was a paved trail (in rather poor condition) up to the falls. Like the Clingmans Dome trail, I think this… Continue reading
Since the previous day’s visit to Clingmans Dome was a bust, we headed up there first thing on Friday. The view was much better. The Clingmans Dome trail is a half mile paved trail up to a lookout ‘tower’ at the top. I suspect it’s highly traveled because it’s paved,… Continue reading