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Category: parks, travel

  • San Ysabel

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    During one of my ‘longing for warm weather days’ this past winter, I traveled further south to San Diego taking a back route instead of the dreaded ’15’. I love the GPS option of ‘no highways’ and would much rather take the lesser used byways. Route 79 south is a favorite of mine (although it’s…

  • RV Life

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    In order to stay warm (chuckle) this winter, I opted to move to Southern California (SoCal). It turns out, SoCal has had their coldest winter in recent memory. My water hose started being unhooked in November (so as not to freeze) when I was still up north in Bishop. Thinking that I’d not have to…

  • Route 395

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    It’s a LONG drive up and down Route 395, five hours at the minimum – add a few stops for leg stretching and lunch and it turns into seven very easily. I usually plug in my book on CD, and enjoy the sights. Some would say that it’s a bleak drive, but just the opposite…

  • Deep Springs and Santa Rosa Plateau

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    I recently left the warm (ha, ha-far from it) Southern California, to travel north to Big Pine and Deep Springs. It really was only a ‘little’ colder there. This has been the coldest winter for SoCal residents in recent memory. It really hasn’t been a whole lot warmer than Maryland! My northern grandchildren are outdoor…

  • Temecula Valley Wine Country

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    Today the rain cleared out, leaving behind fluffy white clouds scudding across the sky. Maurice Carrie vineyard’s windmill was spinning merrily in the breeze. Van Roekel Vineyard – lovely The days of wine and oranges (the roses aren’t blooming yet) Wilson Creek’s vines Right beside the vineyards are green (for now) hills with Mt. Palomar…

  • Eureka Sand Dunes

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    Eureka Valley was high on my list of ‘must see’ places while residing near the Eastern Sierras, as the opportunity to photograph sand dunes so close to home base was calling me. One of the entrances to Death Valley juts off the road to Deep Springs – but with a big CLOSED sign that’s been…

  • Signs of the times

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    I love signs, you may see more posts about them as I keep taking photos of them. I was amazed at these signs when I first started driving out here: Then going back down[/caption] Wild Horses, just after this sign, I saw this poor looking wild horse [/caption] Time to travel to a warmer climate.…

  • Volcanic Tablelands

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    The Volcanic Tablelands above Bishop, California were formed during the volcanic eruption from the Long Valley Caldera 770,000 years ago that also formed Lake Crowley 35 miles to the north. Ash was blown east as far as Nebraska, but boulders, rocks and ash were blown south between the White Mountains and the Eastern Sierras forming…

  • Mono Lake

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    I traveled twice to Mono Lake, CA, which is right next to the pass into the back entrance of Yosemite. Mono Lake was created some 700,000 years ago when a volcanic eruption 2,500 times greater than that of Mount Saint Helen’s occurred. The ash settled as far east as Nebraska and debris and ash south…