I fell in love with Utah from the moment I came here in from Colorado in 2007. My recent four week stay has re-established my fondness of the state. The Utah scenery is breathtaking. Salt Lake City is in a deep wide valley and looks absolutely beautiful from the approach regardless of direction. The red rocks that make up most of the landscape are just awesome. For the first ten days I was in a beautiful RV resort called East Canyon which is set, as its name suggests, in a deep canyon, east of Salt Lake City. The weather was perfect [View Full Entry]

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I left Medicine Hat on August 10th after a great time with family and friends. We spent a long weekend in Banff National Park. The girls went zip-lining and we had time to visit Lake Louise. Its always good to spend time with the girls, they are growing and becoming lovely young women. I look forward to next summer when Sarah graduates. Jayne and Kevin are more than good to me, I’ll be eating food from their table for about three weeks. My next stop was to be Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone had been on our “bucket list” since the 1980s. [View Full Entry]

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I broke the journey from Seattle to Spokane at Moses Lake, Washington. Some of the names of the towns in Washington State are interesting to say the least. Puyallup for example; pronounced Puh-al up, Walla Walla, Ephrata, the list goes on and on. I guess the folks that got across to the side of the United States were a mixed bunch of all nationalities that got thrown in with several tribes of American Indians with their own flair for naming areas created just the right recipe. The name “Spokane” is a Salish word which loosely translated means “children of the sun” [View Full Entry]

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Although this blog starts in Northern California the majority of it is based on my experiences in Seattle. There is so much to do there. The pioneers who made it across the continent were a wild bunch....women and men alike. They were so determined to "make a go of it." Hats off to them! Unfortunately after three lovely sunny days at Klamath River the clouds rolled in and a fine drizzle, alternated with pouring rain for the remainder of my week there! I did manage to visit other coastal towns and see some of the huge trees in the surrounding redwood [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Bodega Bay in a cool drizzle. Thankfully the next morning the clouds had cleared and the sky was blue again. The little town of Bodega is tiny; its claim to fame is that it was the location for Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Bodega (pronounced “Bodayga”) Bay is about 5 miles from Bodega. The inhabitants of the Bay are quick to let you know where they are from; some of them even have a car sticker with BB on it as if it’s a country of its own! Needless to say there is a lot of fishing, crabbing, as [View Full Entry]

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My next stopping place was San Luis Obispo, which is on what is known as the California Central Coast. What a beautiful part of the world—Los Angeles-not so much. Beverley had to come back for meetings so I met up with her for the evening in Torrance which is on the coast south of LA. Since I was there I decided to take a bus tour of Los Angeles. Well I have now been there, done that and didn’t bother buying a t-shirt! The Los Angeles traffic is the worst anywhere (except maybe London.) My trip started in Santa Monica. A [View Full Entry]

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The pace of life is much more to my liking here. The scenery is beyond beautiful. I stayed in San Luis for a week then moved to San Jose for a week before going into a beautiful California State Park in Bodega Bay which is about 60 miles north of San Francisco. California is obviously very fertile and produces a huge portion of the fruits and vegetables for U.S. markets. I have driven through fields of strawberries, orange groves, avocado groves, fields of cabbages, broccoli, romaine lettuce, artichokes; which I have never seen growing before and of course mile after mile [View Full Entry]

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Lots of pictures with this one. Debbie, Bobby and the kids had come to San Diego last year and were really impressed with the city. I must echo their opinion. San Diego is the eighth largest city in the U.S. I have been to the zoo, the mission, and on a whale watching cruise and can honestly say that I have never sat in traffic! Their highway system takes a person right where you want to be. I have really enjoyed this visit. The icing on the cake was a visit to the San Diego Wild Animal Park which is about [View Full Entry]

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The day Bev left I had an appointment to get my car cover modified, unfortunately the guy I was to see had been called away in emergency. So since I was close I decided to go to the Richard Nixon Library. The Library is located on the property where Nixon’s boyhood home stands. The house has been renovated but the original furniture is still in place. The grounds are absolutely beautiful, rose gardens throughout; I was there a couple of weeks early because the roses were all in bud. I may have to go back to see them in bloom, I’ll [View Full Entry]

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I went from the beautiful Indian Waters RV Resort into the parking lot at the Fantasy Springs Casino. My friend BJ (Barbara Jean) arrived on time and we enjoyed a couple of hours walking around the casino grounds and then out to dinner. The casino is on Indian land and is run by the Cabazon Indian Tribe. The grounds are really beautiful. We registered at the casino for the freebees and got ourselves a new t-shirt and a $2 credit on one of the one-arm-bandits. The credit lasted less than 2 minutes so I was glad it wasn’t $2 out of [View Full Entry]

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