thoughts escaping my mind
So we had a couple of days between work in March and decided to head up to Mono Lake.
I’d wanted to visit Mono Lake from the last time I visited Yosemite.
However, in winter, the road that connects Yosemite to Mono Lake is closed. It was spring this time, and the road was still closed. Luckily though, I was coming from Burbank.
9th August.
Garden of the Gods was pretty neat. These massive and yet marvelously thin rock that jut out in the middle of nowhere, pushed up by tectonic action and then weathered down.
Here’s a panorama shot from the visitor centre.
Continue reading “Colorado Springs: Garden of the Gods, Pike’s Peak and Manitou Springs”
Picking, up from where I left off last:
8th August.
Okay, I’m skipping ahead many, many days, because it’s clear I won’t catch up till I’m home, till today. Maui. The last island before returning to Honolulu and reaching the end of the holidays.
A very quick summary.
Visited Haleakala National Park. Haleakala is a dormant volcano.
Because of the flooding of the Missouri that closed I-29, we had to take a rather indirect way to Kansas City, but it didn’t turn out to be much longer than taking the I-29 all the way, apparently.
We ate at Jack Stack Barbecue which was very good. We had beef ribs, lamb ribs, crown ribs. All were moist, had a good bite, not all stringy and falling apart.
This year seems to be a year of flight delays.
Okay, so off to Yosemite we head after LA.
At the famous Ahwahnee, with its massive (taller than me) fireplace, large dining hall etc, we were faced with a very limited yawn-inducing lunch menu of mainly sandwiches.
The service was slow. In this grand hall of 50 tables, only 5 were taken at the time we went in and most tables only had two-somes – we still had to wait a good twenty minutes for our sandwiches. Perhaps the assumption is that we’d love the grandeur of the dining hall so much that we would wait.
But hungry people do not have the stomach for good views. We were just waiting and wondering when food would come.
So some people have been bugging me about updates about my trip.
Since I’m already back for two days, I guess it’s long overdue. But this will only cover the US portion of the trip. Most food photos were taken with my mobile phone, in available lighting, no flash, so some were really crappy.
Anyway, here goes:
The car, caked with mud from Yosemite, is cleaner after many hours of rain driving along the Oregon coast.
My photos are filled with raindrops and condensation. Freezing. Tomorow, have planned many more layers including thermals.
Drove more than 400 miles today up the 101, visited the Avenue of the Giants and am now at the Best Western in Crescent City.
Continue reading “Concord – Avenue of the Giants – Crescent City”
