g&ptrip08

   11-24-23  I'm just posting this to try and save this blog from going to never never land.

After leaving Crater Lake, we spent the night in Bend, OR. We stopped by Peterson's rock garden on our way to Madras, enjoying some beau...

We left Redding, and made our way to Crater Lake. It really is a beautiful deep blue lake. Patience spent a lot of time watching all of the ...

We didn't get five miles out of town before we stopped for miniture golf and a little arcade fun.

That evening my sis decided to fix Patience hair before we went to dinner. I think she liked how it turned out.

We stopped to visit my sister in Granite Bay. She wasn't home yet so we passed the time reading another page of Huck Finn.

Patience climbed into this employee transport vehicle and said "look, I'm a miner" and I said "yep, till yer 21". Sh...

The mine was a stamp mill operation and the display of machinery is quite impressive. It really wouldn't take all that much to get this ...

The reflecting pool and the gardens were beautiful.

After spending the night in Nevada City, we visited the Empire Mine. The owners of the mine had this cottage built there for when they visit...

We rode to Lake Tahoe today for the flying trapeze lesson. They told me to call them the day before the lesson and when I did, they informed...

Some of the early settlers to Virginia City.

The largest crystaline nugget ever found resides here in Murphy's California. What surprised me was it was found in 1996.

I think by the end of this trip she will be wearing all of the latest styles.

Frogs are a big thing here in Calaveras County.

A shortl little side trip included seeing Mark Twains cabin on Jackass Hill. It was here that he wrote the "Jumping frogs of Calaveras ...

They even had a bowling alley.

We took a stage coach ride that came with the traditional hold up as well as some of the history of the area.

We are visiting Columbia today. It is a very well preserved gold rush town that has been added to the California State Parks system. Patienc...

All in all, we had a good time at Yosemite. I think Patience was able to get really close to nature on this trip.

I told her there would be climbers on El Capitan. This guy kept me from being a liar !

We got up early today (yeah right) and headed into the park where the views were spectacular as ever even though there was a little haze lef...

We stayed the night just outside of the Yosemite NP gates. It was a tough decision whether to take a dip in the river or the hot tub. You...

We had lunch at Foster's Bighorn. Good food, but don't think it was from any of his kills.

We took a tour of the Jelly Belly jelly bean factory and even kept it motorcycle related.

I thought about letting her stay in this motel for awhile, but she didn't like the pool.

Then it was off to the Cable Car museum and hop a ride on one of the cars. Those are the actual cable drives that power all of the cable car...

After riding down Lombard St, we went to Pier 39 to see the seals/sea lions (not sure which they were), and pick up the necessary San Fran s...

We finally made it to San Francisco. Lots of people were here trying to get a picture of the GGB.

Our plan was to do all three drive thru trees. This is the only one we made it too.

There were some interesting trees here.

We arrived at The Trees of Mystery where my lumberjack granddaughter is not quite a match for Paul and Babe, at least not in size.