Blogs from North America - page 9006

La vallée de feu...moins connue que les sites du Grand Canyon ou de la Vallée de la Mort mais tout aussi belle. Les couleurs formées par la nature sont vives et superbes, et le vent dessine siecle apres siecle ce site qui enchante par sa purete.... read more

After the rain let up, I decided to walk to Puerto Angel just to get out of the cabana and to get some exercise. The walk from Zipolite to Puerto Angel is quite dangerous. Derek told me of a time he was hit by a car walking to his job at the university. He wasn't seriously injured, but to be hit by a car....scary. I walked along the road to Zipolite, about a 2 mile trek, mostly uphill and with sharp curves in the road. Many of the locals walk this every day, and I met many of them along the way. I watched in wonder as people rode past me on bicycles on these steep hills. I walked out to the pier and eventually started talking to a local fisherman. I was ecstatic to be ... read more

Today we got an early start and drove up the California coast on Highway 1. San Luis Obispo to Monterey on a mostly 2 lane, very curvy highway. Thankfully, there wasn’t a lot of traffic, so we didn’t get stuck behind anyone. The combination of tight curves and a sheer drop-off one lane away made Mom pretty skiddish of the drive. I loved it, though! It was like a game, trying to take the curves just slow enough that Mom wouldn’t freak, but fast enough that they felt like I had to work for them. Have I mentioned yet that I love to drive? Anyway, we made a couple stops along the way. One was at the Whale Watcher Café in Gorda. We grabbed some food and I got some really cool flower pics. We also ... read more

Day 1. Boston to Hawaii. Kids these days. No doubt about it. Time and Newsweek are right. Kids these days are fat. This was unfortunately the most lasting impression of our first twelve hours of travel--nine of which were spent at 34-thousand feet with with the Rollo, Missouri high school marching band. While we offer these Fighting Bulldogs congratulations for earning the privilege of marching in Honolulu's Kamehameha Day Parade this coming Saturday, we were alarmed that 90 of the 100 band members were clearly overweight, and the majority downright obese. Granted, marching band isn't exactly an athletic activity, but it does not bode well for the U.S. that our nerds of tomorrow will be spending more and more time dealing with diabetes, exhaustion, and obesity's concomitant cardiac conditions, and less and less building labor-saving robots ... read more

Weather in Tucson, predicted for Thursday, June 8th: High 99, 30% chance thunderstorms Weather in NYC, predicted for Friday, June 9th: High 58, 50% chance thunderstorms Weather in Preston Park, PA, predicted for Friday, June 9th: High 60, 40% chance thunderstorms. It's going to be an interesting summer...... read more