Category: USA Trip
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San Simeon and whale sightings
Tuesday, 26th August Further down the track of Highway 1 Without planning, we found this ideal motel right on the beach at San Simeon, southern region of Highway 1 . Actually, `resort` would be a better description. Our room opened onto an inner garden and swimming pool. Palms outside each room gave the garden…
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West Coast SF to LA Highway Number one
Monday, 25th August Number 1 Highway Staying overnight in Monterey, Ca, led to a `sleep in’ and a casual tour around the town, learning of its history. The Royal Presidio Chapel was the first stone church to be built in California. Founded by Father Junipera Serra in 1770. The date took my interest, as at…
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San Francisco
Saturday, 22nd August We come down from the high country into the lush valley here that is mostly market gardens of huge scale with busloads of workers weeding, picking and working the fields . Each bus has a trailer with 3 or 4 portaloos in tow and I guess this is where most of the…
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From Desert to Sequoia Forest
Thursday, 21st August Great day, today – We sat on our chairs under a tree!!! How about that! Alison has been longing to do that. We have our lunch in our fridge in the car, so what’s the big deal!!! No trees! No trees! Hot, extra hot, up to 114F As we started to drive…
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Navaho Desert and California Drought
Big contrast with the rest of the Country . The Californian drought has been going for at least two years and it is a pretty dry area anyway . The Country all the way from the eastern states has been green even the panhandles of Texas and Okhohoma were very lush and the cattle looking…
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Albuquerque, New Mexico and route 66
Monday, 17th August Albuquerque – What a name? Spanish background no doubt. It was beautiful driving into Albuquerque, New Mexico, back into the desert country. The desert has a beauty of its own. I practised pronouncing Albuquerque all day!!!!!!!! We arrived Saturday and checked out on the internet, the Baptist church we would like to…
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Oklahoma , the Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Mother Road 66
‘O what a beautiful morning, O what a beautiful day’, goes the lead song in the musical, Oklahoma. But we wake up to steady rain and were not that fussed about leaving early as it was one of the better $70 Super 8 chain motels that we have stayed in. It had a king sized…
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Longview Texas and Le Tourneau University
Wednesday, 13th August Longview,Texas is a place I have always wanted to visit, home of the RG Le Tourneau, earthmoving machine plant and the Le Tourneau Univervisity My main mentor in my struggle to achieve my destiny in life. RG who said, amongst a lot of other wise sayings and clichés. ‘No job is too…
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R and R in Mississippi
It has been good on this trip to spend an extra day or two to smell the roses and get to know folks a little better, especially relatives who through keeping in touch over the years and through our annual Christmas letter, we find roots that go back a ways. So is the case with Carl and Betty…
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The power museums
Of all the things I wanted to see in the USA was the power museums and the Tractors, Cars and planes. It started with the Miniature Power Museum in Carlsbad in California to the huge power museum in Coolsprings ,Pensylvania. then the Air and Space at the Smithsonian conglomerates 2 of the 19 odd museums…
McEwen Farming and Family Stuff 