Page 27 of Whiskers Travel Blog Posts


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September 1st 2008

Well wonders will never cease...Crescent City is in the directory!! The day started out well after a good nights sleep at the Quality Inn,Ukiah.Breakfast was good and chatted to a couple from Pacifica near San Francisco who had immigated (some timeago by their accent)from the Phillipines.Its always good to pass the time with locals as you get so many different views of this huge country.Must be the circles we mix in or places we stay but we always seem to meet Democrats and in fact can't remember the last Republican we spoke to. We headed north on 101 with very light traffic.I tried the overdrive again which I have found is great while the drive is flat but it gets a bit unerving when you travel uphill and the car never loses speed.There is always the ... read more



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August 31st 2008

After a great nights sleep even though we only had 1 pillow each(shows how tired we were) we woke fit and fresh ready for a great Hojo breakfast.Well it wasnt too bad and we bulked up ready for the first day on the road.Trip to the car rental building was easy with the shuttle back to the airport and then a driverless train to the building where all the car companies were. Here we met Joyce who had a badge that said "çustömers make me smile".She was obviously on commission cos even though our prepaid had everything she still tried to upsell.She said the car we had rented would be too small for the freewys and didnt really have an answer when Gretchen said but we are taking backroads.She was stumped.She couldnt even sell us a ... read more



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August 29th 2008

This could have been us yelling out from down the back of the Air NZ 777 flight 008 bound for SanFrancisco as we bumped our way up the South Pacific to the equator. Things looked promising for an upgrade in the departure lounge when Gretchen was asked to step to one side after her boarding pass threw up a red light.A couple before us were upgraded to something flasher than cattle class and we thought öh boy this will be good".However it was not to be.Just the video in the back of the allocated seat was not working and we would be moved to a couple of spare seats.Only they were about as far down the back of the 777 that you can get.Hence when the plane experienced turbulence for what seemed like a couple of ... read more






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