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Quick note before it gets lost in the packing shuffle
I participated in the sshg_promptfest for the first time this year, and would like to thank mt_nestor for her charming interpretation of my prompt:
Title: Gifts
Type: Art
Prompter:
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There are lots of hills in and around San Francisco
Yesterday was a relatively restful day, in that we did not spend all of it on our feet. Instead, we went for a scenic drive (there's something we haven't done in a while :-)) through Golden Gate Park, over the Golden Gate bridge and along route 1 to Stinson Beach. We had a bit of a late start, and saw the toll change from $6 to $4 while in line at ( Read more... ) -
Cousins
Much of Sunday and Monday have been spent with cousins. We essentially spent all of Sunday with ADC's cousins - as BART was not working, we stayed in Oakland. We walked around Lake Merritt, ate pizza from Arizmendi (the original of the pizza place that serves only one flavour in Inside Out), and visited the Oakland Museum of California, which is ( Read more... ) -
Route 101 - from Eureka to Oakland
Today was a long day, which can be summed up in two words: driving and eating. As our motel did not include breakfast, we decided to eat a few remaining things that we had bought for hikes, and to stop after the Avenue of the Giants for brunch. We set off just before 9 a.m., stopped for brunch two and a half hours' later, and at 3 p.m. really ( Read more... ) -
Redwood forests
We reached California just before noon ( Read more... ) -
Crater Lake in the sunshine
We set off this morning for Crater Lake, hoping to escape the forecast heat. In fact, ADC was very worried that we might not be warmly enough dressed and told the children to expect to see snow on the ground (which they interpreted as "it might/will snow", it seems). In the event, there was no snow whatsoever - to the extent that the illustrated ( Read more... ) -
ADC drove 180 miles today
Today was definitely a road trip. We set off quite early, heading for the Columbia River Gorge. Our first stop was at Vista House, built in the 1920s specifically for viewing the gorge at its finest. The very enthusiastic docent there gave us maps and lists of waterfalls to visit as we made our way along historic Route 30, one of the first roads ( Read more... ) -
Portland
We had very high expectations of Portland, and it mostly lived up to them. Our vague plan back in DC was to go to Powell's bookshop, SockDreams' brick and mortar store and the Rose Garden. We managed to do two out of three, and several other things, too ( Read more... ) -
Friday Harbor to Vancouver, via Seattle
On Wednesday night, shortly after I wrote my last entry, once it became fully dark we went down to the docks. ASC and the boys went rowing, in the hopes of seeing bioluminescence, while I stayed on the docks and joined a group of students who were "night lighting": sending down an electric light into the water to see what might be attracted. I ( Read more... ) -
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Happy birthday teddyradiator! I hate posting from my phone, so i'll just wish you a lovely day and wonderful year to come.