West

Road Stories

  We had planned on visiting the Redwood National Park, but at the last minute changed our plans and spent a little extra time in Monterey.  Pretty sure the Redwoods will hang around another year or so for us to visit. 100 Miles of Fruit Trees We took...

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Wildlife

  Frankly, up to this point this trip has been a little disappointing when it comes to wildlife.  Yes, we've seen a couple of golden eagles, plenty of hawks and lots of lizards, but we haven’t seen anything new, nor any of the “special” animals.  Can’t tell you...

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Big Sur

Male seal and some of his females   Thursday morning we headed north towards Monterey.  Just an hour after we left Palm Springs we started encountering LA traffic.  And….that traffic continued for the next four hours as we wove our way through downtown LA, past Hollywood and...

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Mustang Mona

  Mona is a car person., that’s why she drives a Lexus.  When she’s in the valley, she remains a car person but one who is fixated on convertibles. That’s why I was scanning the internet looking for a deal on renting a convertible…a Mustang...

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Polo Day

  Usually, we have a hummingbird that visits us every morning.  But this year no hummer.  But we do have an egret that is here each morning.  He’s not quite as cute, but he’ll have to do!  We also have lots of ducks and geese…Mona’s favorite. ...

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Hummers and Rattlers

Morning View   Our first morning in Palm Springs was warm and beautiful.  It was 65 degrees when we went out on the balcony to enjoy our coffee and watch the wildlife.  It’s really peaceful here in the mornings. One of our “must-dos” in Palm Springs is visiting the Agua Caliente...

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Rounding the Turns

Washington Desert We started the morning in Western Washington, near Richland. On our way into town yesterday, we noticed that all signs seemed to point to Walla Walla. We loved saying this name and it made it fun to be the first one to find the sign and...

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Westward Bound!

  Our first stop of the day was to pay homage to the primary agricultural product of Idaho.  Of course we’re talking about the potato and the Potato Museum in the Potato Capital of the World: Blackfoot, Idaho. We pay our senior-citizen discounted entrance fee and step...

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