Archive through August 25, 2003
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Archive through August 25, 2003
Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 07:34 pm     Here's the helpful purse shopper in Solvang. I must say he was quite accomodating.
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Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 07:45 pm     As for the rest of the trip, well you can read about the rest of Juju and Bob's adventures over in the Bob thread. I'll just post a few other photos from our trek here beginning with the drive out. Other than the photos of our meetings which were fabulous, there wasn't much of note for several hundred miles (or more). I had hoped to get some beautiful photos of the Great Salt Lake but unfortunately it was very dried up. Standing on the shore we were a good 1/4 mile from any water at all.
As we drove through Utah and the climate got drier and drier (not my cup of tea) I jokingly said to DH, next thing you know we'll be at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Wouldn't you know it, 5 minutes later we were there!
It was 106 degrees there. By the time we got to Sparks, Nevada, at 112 degrees tempers were flaring. There was blessed silence in our car until we reached the Calfiornia side of the Sierra Nevadas and GREEN!!! I hadn't seen green in days!
We had a very pleasant drive after that to our main destination which was Alameda, California. |
Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 07:56 pm     We spent 5 days total in Alameda and San Francisco visiting family and old neighbors and neighborhoods. We had the most wonderful time and it was heartbreaking to leave, knowing we wouldn't get back for 2 years. We had beautiful weather in Alameda but once one got past the Golden Gate it was fog, fog, fog. I grew up only 1/4 mile from the Ocean Beach in San Fancisco so a little fog has never stopped me or mine. The first day we took Miss Sarah to the zoo. I took many photos of family and animals and family with animals. Seems like I used nearly a full roll on the penguins alone and thought of Lori the whole time. My second favorites are the flamingos.
After leaving the zoo, we took a drive along the ocean and I took a photo of Seal Rock for old times sake. If you look very closely, those little dots on the rock are all sea lions. You can see I wasn't kidding about the fog, either.
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Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 08:04 pm     After our lovely 5 days, we headed down to Monterey for 2 days with just the 3 of us. This was the first time Miss Sarah ever got to play in any ocean and she loved it....except for the taste. It was a perfect afternoon and the beach was not the least bit crowded.
The next day we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I'll spare you the photos of the jelly fish which I took to please a certain 6 year old, however, we did get quite up and personal with quite a few sea lions when we went to Fisherman's Wharf for dinner. I didn't need the zoom lens for this photo. You could actually reach out and touch one of these critters, though that is highly discouraged.
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Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 08:17 pm     From there we went to lovely Solvang. That visit has been very ably narrated already. It is a charming little town with windmills everywhere you turn and horse drawn carts for transportation (in addition to the cars, of course).
After meeting up with Wargod and family (thank you again Weiner for the excellent directions) we began to make our way home via the more scenic route, thank goodness! It was still 116 degrees at one point but at least there was something to look at besides each other. There was Utah...
It was a strange phenomenon going through a rainstorm in the desert. We'd go from 96 degrees to 73 degrees and back up to 98 degrees within a matter of minutes. And Colorado...
Ask Fanny how much time we spent looking at the Rocky Mountains. Can we say TRAFFIC JAM on the way to Denver? She told DH to enjoy the scenery and we certainly did. She also had told me to drive slowing on the down side. When we finally arrived at Karuuna's lovely home 2 hours late, I told her that driving slowly downhill was never a problem. Most of the time we weren't moving at all. |
Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 08:24 pm     That's it for this year's travelogue....except for the further adventures of Dawg and Sponge which will be posted later tonight in Bob's thread. It really was the most wonderful vacation we've every taken as a family and meeting so many lovely people from TVCH made it that much more special. Thanks to the road trip thread, I will be able to re-read all about it in my old age. This has been a very good year for TVCH, I'd say. |
Lancecrossfire | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 08:29 pm     Wow Tess-that's all I can say--just wow! Thanks for sharing all of that with us! |
Teatime | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 08:30 pm     Beautiful, Tess. Thank you. The father/daughter photo is heart-warming.  |
Lucy | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 09:25 pm     Tess, I loved reading your travelogue. Great pictures (glad I didn't see myself in any) of your trip. Spy, With your approval, would you agree to this Barbie for Glenn....?
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Egbok | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 09:32 pm     Tess, I love all your pictures and I agree with Tea about the ocean pic with C&S. The two that made me smile the most were the ones taken in Solvang of the windmill and the horses...only because I was standing right next to you when you took them!! I love it!! LOL.
Came back in with Edit. Lucy, is that a Harley Barbie?...as in motorcycle momma?? Back again with Edit! Ummmm Tess? The purse picture is an adorable Butt Shot if I ever saw one!! LOL!! |
Pamy | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 09:36 pm     Great pics and stories! Thanks for sharing!! |
Spygirl | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 09:37 pm     A Harley Barbie!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Great find, Lucy! That is hilarious |
Bob2112 | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 09:48 pm     Yay Tess! Great pics! The pictures of all the places we visited are just the way I remember them or are they just the way Dawg imagined them, um..., er... anyway, did I say, Great pics!  |
Babyruth | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 09:55 pm     Teatime!! OMG! You cracked me up with your pic of my new aubergine monster wheels truck, with me in the back. LOL! It's a nice group shot of everyone, too. Thanks for being so thoughtful to include me in your roadtrip pic. I loved reading your recap of Gracie's get-together, and Halfunit's recap, too! Sounds like a great day with wonderful people. Great butt shots! I am so bummed that I missed it. I am still angry at the jerk who totalled my car. Maybe I can sue for loss of enjoyment of TVCH meetings..... I accomplished a lot of car shopping and test drives yesterday, though, and have narrowed down my choices to two. I hope to get into some new wheels early this week. I need my car! Weiner, Tess, Spongie and everyone else: I loved reading all the great posts in this thread tonite. The pics are outstanding and the stories are great fun to read. Thank you for sharing your road trips! |
Juju2bigdog | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 10:09 pm     Great travelogue and pictures, Tess. The Utah pictures were especially gorgeous. Now I suppose I have to go there. That one with the rainbow is a work of art. Are you sure Reiki didn't take it?
<wonders if she should tell Tess the black spots on Seal Rocks are cormorants and not sea lions, having lived five years a block away from those rocks, thinks better of it, ambles out> |
Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 10:14 pm     Uh Bob, there will be more photos of your adventures with juju over in your thread. Those will help jog your memory I'm sure. Now what about the sponge family photos of the day? Lucy, one thing you'll find out about me is that I never post photos of other TVCH people without their explicit permission. And I have some real hum-dingers, believe me! Juju and Bob are exempt from that rule, of course! |
Zachsmom | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 10:16 pm     tess..i know you didn't post 1 pix of juju and bob <fans self> |
Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 10:20 pm     they are a friendly pair.....hahhahahhaha...I still say the you guys are all nuts! |
Tess | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 11:49 pm     Well dang Juju, if these things are the cormorants, where the heck did all the sea lions go? There used to be tons of them there when I was a kid.
That's as close up as the picture gets. I don't see no stinkin' sea lions... just black spots. Btw--did you know they are remodelling the Cliff House? I was afraid they had a fire or something, but nope, just remodelling. Oh, the memories. |
Tntitanfan | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 04:26 am     Tess - When we were at Seal Rock last year, the tour guide told us that after the last earthquake - I've forgotten the exact year - the sea lions moved to exactly where you found them off of one of the piers at Fisherman's Wharf!! I have so much enjoyed everyone's trip tales and photos! Since I don't have a scanner to do photos, I am going to be very challenged to describe the East Coast sights and scenery!! You can look for that saga to begin in early October when we return!! |
Squaredsc | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 04:36 am     wow tess, now thats what i call a road trip. |
Heyltslori | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 08:03 am     Tess, Bob, Halfunit and all the road trippers...thank you so much for sharing your pictures with us! There are so many places that I'm getting to see through your eyes and I've been having a great time reading about your adventures! It's really nice of you to share your lives with the rest of us like this. You guys are the best!! (Tess...thank you SO much for the penguin pics!!)  |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 08:20 am     Tess, blow up the bottom right part of the big rock. It is possible one of the dark places there is a sea lion. Bigdog's friend Spot, who worked at Musee Mecanique in the bottom of the Cliff House for many years and who regularly called in rescues for people who got swept towards Seal Rocks, told Bigdog there had not been any seals for many years. Loma Prieta earthquake as TnT said, sounds about right. HOWEVER, the last two years we were in SF, the sea lions returned to Seal Rocks!!! You might have seen them with the naked eye when you were there if you knew where to look. That would be near the right side of the big rock and on the smaller rocks to the right. When they are there, you can see them in the waves washing up on the rock, and when the wave recedes, they are on the rock. You might actually have one or two in the picture you posted. I believe you were referring to Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey, but yes, as TnT said, most of the sea lions moved to Pier 39 at Fisherman's Wharf in SF, where they have a very easy life. There are also some that hang out on the rocks and buoys leading into SF Bay on the west side of the Golden Gate. |
Mware | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 09:42 am     Tess, those are some wonderful pictures you've got there! An excellent trip, with lots of fun had by all, and the Sponge and Dawg to boot! Thanks so much for sharing! And Lori, when you're done with the penguin pics, can I have a look? They're my faves too!  |
Heyltslori | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 10:06 am     Mware, there is one in the "I met Bob" thread and another in my folder!  |
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