Ocean view NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FOUR MONTHS LATER. This may be the only place we paid to walk on this whole two week vacation part of our trip. $9 for a one hour walk. First we stop at Dunes Beach.We didn't remember having to pay to park. So we drove to Venice Beach, it was still pay to park so we did. Very few car in any of the lots we saw. Weather was jacket weather but the view was why we stopped. We had found this place a couple of years ago when we were in the

Sandy shore NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FOUR MONTHS LATER. The picture above, inland was all dairy farm. Many family farms for 100+ years. When we were there, those farms were down to their last few months of cleanup before having to be gone from their farms. The government wanted their land for the park and had been fighting with them for years. They are expecting the main wildlife here will be Elk. The walk from the parking lot to the overlook was just over a half mile.

Town view from the park. NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FOUR MONTHS LATER. The park is called Sonoma Coast State Park, the area is called Bodega Head. It overlooks the town. We've stopped at this one before, sometime in the last year or two with family. Parking is a sand lot, it does have a two hole outhouse. Most of the trails here are single file dirt paths across the grass. Worn deep. The area where we park is about 250 feet above the water. The parking lot and most of the

Trail with tales. NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FOUR MONTHS LATER. 3rd walk of the day. This one is not an hour long. We've walked these trails before. They are across the street from the main park headquarters. Parking is also across the street. On street parking for tour buses. None here today but it gets crowded on these trails when a tour bus stops. The trails here are well marked and have info signs about the trees and the area as you walk the trail. What they do not ha

Big, downed, tree NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FOUR MONTHS LATER. The sign at the trailhead said it was the Rockefeller Loop Trail, of the Humboldt Redwood State Park. The story of this stop is more about the road than the walk. My wife had a place in mind on this road, but we never got to it. This road was paved but only wide enough to meet another car if one of them was stopped. It was also the main road to a few towns in the area. So also lots of trucks. After a few mile

Surfaced trail Most area's of this trail were either, paved, crushed rock or boardwalk. It was lever that most and usually six feet wide. The sign at the trailhead said it was the Newton B Drury and Ralph W Chaney Groves, of the Humboldt Redwood State Park. The walk was listed as 2-1/2 miles and a one hour walk. It took us a little more than that as we stopped to take pictures and stare at trees.

Just another lief. NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FOUR MONTHS LATER. (Quote from notes I took the day of the hike) "When we got out of our car, someone started talking to us right away. There was a woman who was lost and a couple who was trying to help her. They finally said they would go to where the lost woman says her husband was and let him know where she is. Her phone battery is dead (and we have no cell service) and she thinks she came from a direction that is not logic

Early morning walk. The parking lot is about a quarter mile away from the beach. There are no paved trails and even this wider trail had a rugged drop to the beach. Once on the beach, the walk was flat :) We spent some time there. Then we walked on the grass covered sand dunes which were not flat but had a good view. Because of the lay of the land there was almost 270 degree view of the ocean. Only 1-2 other cars there while we were there. The parking lot was paved for 100-15

single file trail NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FOUR MONTHS LATER. We had dropped RV's in ID a few days ago. With no more RV work and no bus work we decided to just take a few days off. We had canceled our July vacation this year so really hadn't done a vacation this year. When we dropped we had to push it to get out of the mountains before it started snowing, we made it before it snowed but have spent the last few days with mostly rain. The one time we did try to walk we go

Early fall NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FIVE MONTHS LATER. We had dropped our rental car in IA this AM but we were hoping for more work so we were kind of hanging around. This walk was in the late AM. We've walked this park many times in the last 10 years and do not remember anything specific about today's walk. When we were done walking we went to the Petro here in Albert Lea for lunch, before killing more time and finally heading home after still getting no work.

'Side wing of mall' NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FIVE MONTHS LATER. We had delivered in California and were waiting for work. We'd gotten a late checkout so this picture was from mid afternoon on a weekday. This mall is laid out differently. Both because you walk past outdoor stores before getting to the entrance and because all stores do not have an exterior wall. Looking at a map, as many as a third are in two interior groups. It looks like the mall had as many as 5 ancho

Two story mall. NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP SIX MONTHS LATER. We had dropped one RV in Rockford first thing this AM. No other work lined up so we stopped where and went for a walk. I don't see any people in the picture. The mall opened at 10 AM and it was just a little after that on a weekday when the picture was taken. The mall is listed as having 140 stores. I don't remember it being a ghost mall but not sure the percentage of vacancy. The mall still has a Penny's and Ma

Looking north. We're back. This picture is taken right across the street from the ABAB that we stayed at a few months ago. I had just...

From the lower level. Work has been slow so we have been mostly home and the fires in Canada are making the air quality so bad that no...

1 of 3 elephants. NOT an easy walk. Lots of elevation change. And the zoo is not free. We came with two other couples and one of them...

A lot of sitting, watch at this park. This is a park. Plenty of flat space to walk, for a price. We where there mid-week before summer...

When the big male comes in, the smaller male leaves. We were looking for a place to see sea lions and this was the closest. It is a park,...

Our airBNB is somewhere mid-shoreline on this picture. There is a sign on at least one end of this trail but we never walked to that end....

Downtown San Diego Spanish Landing is across the street from the San Diego airport. Today we were using it as a cell phone lot. We had an...

Storm damaged stairs along trail. We have been to this park before, but have always come in from the other direction and didn't remember...