Heading Home
From Hollywood to Warriewood Sept 22-23, 2010 So it is time to return home. We found downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills a bit tawdry. Maybe it was tiredness or maybe the smog… Continue reading
Category Archive: Alaska and Western States 2010
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From the Desert to the Sea
Long Beach Sept 18-21, 2010 All thing must come to an end and so it is with our grand vacation. We took two days to cover over 500 miles from the Grand Canyon… Continue reading
Grand Canyon Hike
Grand Canyon National Park, Sept 12-17, 2010 WOW was all I could think of as we stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon. Although I have seen pictures of it and thought… Continue reading
Bright Lights
Las Vegas Sept 11,2010 A day in Vegas – what a contrast. It is everything we thought it would be, just bigger. But surprisingly surrounded by mountains and a huge military complex to… Continue reading
Rocks, Sand, Salt and Sun
Death Valley National Park Sept 9-10, 2010 We have not yet tired of the beauty of this magnificent landscape. The stark changes as we drove south from Sequioa, over the farms and ranches… Continue reading
Southwest Sierras
Kings Canyon and Sequioa National Parks Sept 7- 8, 2010 A mournful wailing broke the silence of the quite of dawn on the first night we were camped in the high mountains that… Continue reading
A Runners Paradise
Mammoth Lakes, Sept 6, 2010 With chest colds and flu we arrived in Mammoth Lakes. A fabulous ski area in winter and, as we discovered later, an altitude training ground for Americas top… Continue reading
The heart of Sierra Nevada
Yosemite National Park Sept 3-5, 2010 A little bit of bad planning saw us arriving at Yosemite during the Labour Day long weekend – it seems that most of California was on the… Continue reading
Frost in Lake Tahoe
Prosser Ranch Road, Tahoe National Forest Wed. Sept 1, 2010 Countdown to my next big race – The Kepler Challenge – has started and it is time to get serious about running again.… Continue reading
Sierra Nevada
Lake Tahoe National Forest, Aug 31 to Sept 2, 2010 After driving for hours through the flatland of the Sacramento Valley we approached the Sierra Nevada mountain range which fringes Lake Tahoe. I… Continue reading