Road Trip Out West III

I’m winding up our road trip out West, I also realize it has been a long time coming, but since my last post I’ve cleaned our basement and had a huge yard sale.  It feels good to get rid of some of our clutter, especially from the basement,  so now I’m free to concentrate on fall!   

The photo’s below were taken in Clear Lake, one of the largest natural freshwater lakes in California one of the oldest on the continent, and you can see the ancient volcano, Mount Kanata from a distance.

My daughter and her husband kayak across this lake weekly to enjoy dinner at a wonderful Mexican Restaurant. Doesn’t that sound like fun?

We visited beautiful wineries, Ferrari-Curano

 

The redwoods were remarkable!

It was difficult to take a photo and actually show just how tall and large these tree’s really were.We read, in a brochure, were a  photographer from National Geographic actually camped out in the Redwoods for a year, before he found the best spot to photograph them.

 

We stopped by the Grand Canyon on the way home, as you can see it was so crowded.  I did manage to make my way through the crowd, and take a photo of one of the rare Condors. 

While driving through Arizona, we decided to stop at the Cadillac Ranch. It’s basically old Cadillac’s buried in the ground.  Everyone brings a can of spray paint, and sprays on their own design.

We stopped in New Mexico and spent the night, but since the temperature’s were reaching 115 degree’s, everyday, so we decided to discontinue our sight seeing there and in Texas, and make our way back to the bluegrass state.

We had a wonderful and safe trip, but it’s great to be back home.

Thank’s everyone for stopping by today.  I hope you are enjoying your weekend, see you soon!

 

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Road Trip Out West II

Hello All,

I’m a little slow getting this post together, but it’s been a very busy summer and I’m trying to take advantage of every minute of this wonderful warm and sunny weather. I know fall is just around the corner and after that old man winter returns…. after the winters we’ve been having,  it seems like forever until it’s warm again. 

We are entering Utah and Nevada deserts, the colors and textures are so different from our landscape, here in the south.

 

 

We spent the day in Virginia City Nevada.  It looked and felt like you were stepping back in time….just like it did on Bonanza! 

Lake Tahoe was too beautiful to describe.  The water was so blue that it looked almost artificial.

The CA Hwy 89 travels north from South Lake Tahoe toward Tahoe City, climbing over the mountain's edge just above scenic Emerald Bay.  I have to say, it was one of the scariest roads I have ever been on.  The scenery is gorgeous, but in places it’s a straight drop off into the lake.

Albert enjoyed swimming in Lake Tahoe…they had several dog friendly beaches.  After exploring and enjoying Lake Tahoe and Lake Tahoe City….we’re on the road again to Clear Lake California!

 

We made it….to Northern California!  It was a long journey, but oh so worth it!

My daughter takes this little glass on all of her travels. (You can never have too much HAPPY!) After this trip…it shows up in all of her photo’s.

She made hotel reservations for us to stay in Sonoma at a beautiful old Spanish hotel that was near the lovely wine country.  We had a wonderful time visiting different wineries and seeing the beautiful vineyards…winding through the hills and Sonoma valley, doing what we like best…tasting different wonderful wines. Our first visit was to the Ferrari-Curano Vineyards and Winery in Sonoma Valley.  The gardens, vineyards and Winery were absolutely gorgeous. I’m hoping the recent earthquake didn’t harm any of these beautiful wineries. We were amazed by the dry conditions in Northern CA. I’m almost certain the prices of wine will increase substantially.  After seeing the devastation left from some of the wildfires in California I vowed I would never complain about the rain again.  

Well folks, I apologize if I overloaded you with photo’s today, but I will conclude our road trip out west next week.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a great TGIF!

xo Mary

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