Blogs from United States, North America - page 5962

June 9th - June 11th We had to perform an Annual Family ceremony @ a priest’s place in LiverMoore The ceremony was on June 11th Monday. So we thought we would spend the weekend at some place near Liver Moore. Undoubtedly, the first place that came to my mind was Yosemite. This is one of the perfect times to visit Yosemite because of the waterfalls being in full swing. We knew 2 days are not going to be enough for Yosemite. As always, this is nearer, so we can afford one more trip. :-) This was our plan Friday - June 8th Evening- start from Tustin and reach Fresno which is 4 hours from our place. Saturday -June 9th Morning - Start from Fresno and reach Yosemite Saturday - June 9th Night- Check in @ Oakhurst ... read more

Hi everyone, I am abusing FREE internet access at my hotel! Great flight except for Vancouver airport taking a fancy to my bag for a while and nearly missing the connection. Anchorage is awesome from the air, oh those snowcovered mountains and miles of wilderness! Small friendly country town yet with all big city facilities, minus the crowds, traffic, smog etc. The bear trip today had perfect weather- T shirts, thermals didn't get a look in! sunset is 11pm and tomorrow I'll find out about sunrise maybe as up very early to go down Kenai fjords peninsula. Anyway today- saw beluga whales, an otter's clam shell midden, a bald eagle's nest complete with bird, two beaver lodges, lotsa waterbirds not seen in Oz or UK, and the folks in the OTHER boat saw a cow m ... read more

Have downloaded some pictures so will enter those today. Raining today so will spend the time wandering the streets of Bar Harbor. Plan to extend at park campground for 2 additional days hoping to get some kakyaking and more bicycling in before we head north. Have been using laundromats along the way as needed, but David planned on us being able to be self-sufficient. Love watching him use the hand operated wringer devise he bought for the trip.... read more

Blogger: Katie Location: Frederick Heights, VA Well friends, today has been an interesting day. We're taking a slight change of drivers break, DJ could tell that I was itching to blog AND we had to stop because of some spills. First we realized that the box of cheese its was almost empty because it had spilled all over the front floor. I guess that was my fault. THEN. I asked DJ if he could find the sunblock in my backpack and he finds that a chocolate bar (which I'd packed from NH) had ooozed all over the inside of my bag. Basically this prompted a big sad face for me. So we pulled off at the nearest exit so I could clean up the chocolate off of all of my books, etc. It's pretty much ... read more

Days 43 & 44 – Monday & Tuesday – Los Angeles, Califonia *sob* it's our last day!!! So yesterday we all met for our last breakfast as the six of us - the last supper hehehe. Jen & John who we'd spent the last 6 weeks with, have headed back up to San Fran and then make their way over to Chicago before flying back home to England after there year long honeymoon. It's been very weird ever since hanging out and them not being around and we miss them heaps (awwww!). The plan for Monday was for Kate, Toni, Dean & I to go out to Six Flags Magic Mountain, but we realised it was $100 to get a taxi (ONE WAY), it was about 4 busses and 2 hours to go by public transport ... read more