http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Sorebutz/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Sorebutz en-us Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:25:24 +0000 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:25:24 +0000 Last blog On The Way Home outside Des Moines IA. I wasnrsquot sure whether Irsquod add anything more to this blog but today we met Peggy Bender at a Starbuckrsquos inside a Target in Kearny Nebraska and this deserves a few words. How to explain that within minutes we were sharing our life history well some of it with this total stranger and vice versa. Many interesting convergence http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-335272.html Last week of sightseeing. Sunday October 05 Eureka.By now I suppose some of you are wondering how we find being on the road just the two of us in a small car for miles and miles weeks and weeks. We left home at the end of August about 5 weeks ago and wersquove now covered over 6000 miles. I donrsquot think the housekeeping details of traveling are particularly interesting on the who http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-333352.html Monday September 29 Mountain country. Lake Tahoe.Wersquove spent the weekend hiking in the mountains surrounding Jan and Dennyrsquos home outside Tahoe City. Saturday we hiked 11.5 miles up to 8400rsquo climb of 1800rsquo. Jan and Dennyrsquos buddy Al has a GPS and could tell us almost anything we wanted to know about the route and where we were on it. But I astounded Al and myse http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-331241.html Museumgoing Our first adventure was at the Exploratorium the fabulous science museum with handson exhibits that actually work I never got off the second floor absorbed in huge exhibits on ldquoliferdquo from cell structure and DNA to hellip everything else and ldquosound.rdquo Just heard on NPR that one of the people who developed the Sound exhibit just won a McArthur award and http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-327730.html September 16 We enjoyed two hikes further up the coast even though after flirting with us briefly the sun pulled the covers up and went back to bed. One hike took us to the intersection of the San Andreas fault and the creek that comes out at Ft. Ross settled in 1812 by Russians who came down from Alaska looking for sea otters pelts which they hunted up and down the coast to extinction a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Sonoma-County/blog-325479.html Sept. 9. Back from Sonoma a diversion from our intended foray into bikeriding. We were headed for the bike shop in Sebastopol. After lunch yesterday at Alicersquos Restaurant there served by Alice herself aka ldquoShe Who Must Be Obeyedrdquo we scoped out bike rentals in that town and set our sights on a ride today. But the fog that has returned to the coast persisted inland today wi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Sonoma-County/blog-324014.html Sept. 4 Thursday Cliff Cottage Bodega Bay CA. My aunt and uncle Patsy and Ed McKeown treated us to a wonderful overnight in SF well Piedmont across the bay and in the middle of Oakland. Patsy is my motherrsquos remaining sister and therefore particularly dear to me. But both of these folks in their 80rsquos are sharp as tacks Ed is particularly great with maps and made sure we had http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Bodega-Bay/blog-321646.html August 30 2008. Estes Park COWersquove put 1116 miles under the wheels in two days and itrsquos not easy to make a tour of I80 across the plains without much of a stop interesting. But one serendipitous ldquosymmetryrdquo did come to me as we turned onto I55 from LSD and I realized that this the first part of our journey was along the route of the old Illinois and Michigan cana http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-319797.html