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California is a looooong state!
The main reason for our cross-country journey was to see granddaughters Addison (aka Addi) and Charlotte (never Charlotte — always Charlie!) and parents Clay and Becky, of course, We picked Lompoc as our 6-hour drive stopover but detoured to San Luis Obispo for dinner. We had a great dinner at Red Luna. San Luis Obispo…
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Ahhh….Albion!
Our week stay in Albion has gone by much too quickly. We started our week with lunch in Healdsburg with Jeff, Becky and Reilly Kreutz (Abbie had to work…ugh!) and a little shopping. Carl Munganast warned us that we were heading into “high cotton” territory and when I admired a sweater priced at $1,650 (marked…
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California here we come!
The drive from Moab to California is a study in geology. The topography changes dramatically from the craggy, red scenery near Arches National Park becoming less craggy (is that a word?)…. to less craggy, paler mountains just a few miles down the road and the stark, nearly white desert of Nevada…. The photo above is…
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Some things I bet you didn’t know….
We made it to Albion and I’ll update you on that in the next post. But, as I was going through my pictures they reminded me of some stories we heard along the way that I want to share with you. Potash is pronounced POT-ash because it was originally obtained by boiling a mixture of…
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Sunset & Champagne Train Ride
Maybe it’s us. Night time viewing of amazing things seems to elude us. As the title of John Greene’s book goes maybe it’s “The Fault in Our Stars.” At any rate, the train ride to a dark sky adventure was a bust. A couple of things: First, it was cloudy and there were rain showers…
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Arches & Canyonlands National Parks
Wow! Everything about this stop in Moab has been perfect. We are staying at the Hoo Doo Resort, a Curio Collection Hilton Hotel. It is amazing….the decor, the room and especially the people. We arranged our tour of the parks through the hotel and the concierge suggested 3 Alarm Tours and we are so glad…
And we're off!
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