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Los Angeles/San DiegoAfter leaving Houston, we stopped in Lubbock to pick up Angela and spent the first night in Flagstaff before continuing on to Los Angeles. Danny stayed home to keep an eye on the house. We had our traditional trailer flat tire just outside of Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Luckily the tire was not ruined and just needed to be re-mounted. After 18-years or so of pulling a trailer the tire shop manager was the first to ever give me a straight answer on how much air pressure should be in the tires. His advice apparently worked, or perhaps it was the cooler temperature, but that was the only flat tire we had.
The Pacific Coast Highway and Oregon CoastWe drove on the Pacific Coast Highway from Malibu almost all the way to San Francisco, then drove on other portions of the highway from San Francisco to Oregon. We were looking forward to the cliff-lined roads shown in movies but were unprepared for the beautiful sights seen along the way. As usual, our pictures cannot do justice to show the beauty of the California coast...but we tried anyway.
San FranciscoWe thought that since Los Angeles was so big we'd devote more time to that city. In hindsight we wish we would have allotted more time to the San Francisco area. The beautiful hills of the city, and the endless fields of grape vines to the North made for an inviting place to visit.
Redwood National Forest The California coast is the place best suited
for growth of these ancient giants, many are over 1,000 years old. From a
business standpoint I can see why lumber companies want to cut down these trees,
but from my normal state of mind I cannot understand why anyone would want to
destroy something so old, rare and beautiful. Due to heavy rains and a
lack of raincoats we were unable to hike to the site of the oldest and tallest
patch of Redwoods. But the short visit to this area gave us a taste of
what this area must have been like before the white man began occupying North
America.
Yosemite National ParkWe'd heard it was beautiful, but it was absolutely breathtaking. Even though 1/3rd of the park was closed due to a late season snow storm that hit while we were driving in from Oregon, we got our fill of waterfalls and panoramic mountain scenery.
Las Vegas and Hoover DamThe final stop of our trip took us to Las Vegas. We spent only one evening in the city, but Angela showed us around and we saw all the lights...I mean sights! Just outside of Las Vegas is Hoover Dam and Lake Meade. One could probably spend all day just trying to figure out how the dam was built literally in the middle of nowhere. But we were anxious to get back home and spent only an hour or so.
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