Monthly Archives: September 2012

Bakersfield, CA The main reason we wanted a jeep was to be able to get to some remote places accessible only with four wheel drive.  So after our visit to the Sequoia trees on Monday we headed down the mountains … Continue reading →

Bakersfield, CA We had plans Monday morning to do some things around the motorhome, but the day was so nice we switched gears in the morning and headed northeast to visit some really big trees.  As we headed north on … Continue reading →

Bakersfield, CA On our first day with the new Jeep we invited Larry and Mary Anne Weinberg, who are traveling with us in their motorhome, to ride out to the east of Bakersfield to visit some sites in the nearby … Continue reading →

Bakersfield, CA When we arrived here last Tuesday we were towing this . . . When we leave next week we will be towing this . . . After completing the deal to sell the motorcycle and trailer on Wednesday, … Continue reading →

Bakersfield, CA After a brief stay in Mariposa to make a visit to Yosemite National Park, we left Tuesday morning and continued our journey south.  After about two hundred miles on Rte. 99 through the heart of American agriculture, we … Continue reading →

Mariposa, CA We left cold, foggy Monterey (64 degrees) on Saturday morning and headed for hot (95 degrees) Mariposa, a small town about 50 miles outside of Yosemite, where we are parked at the Mariposa Fair Grounds.  It would have … Continue reading →

Monterey, CA The Monterey Bay Aquarium is located on the site of a former sardine cannery along what is known as Cannery Row.  The basic design of the aquarium pumps 2000 gallons per minute of Monterey Bay ocean water, night and … Continue reading →

Monterey, CA On Tuesday we drove about ten miles south along the coast to do some hiking.  Garrapata State Park hugs the coastline there and has numerous foot paths leading to the cliffs overlooking the Pacific.  Pam found a web … Continue reading →

Monterey, CA Since the park where we are staying is located in the middle of a golf course and both Larry and John are golfers (or to be more precise, they play the game), it was inevitable that they would end up … Continue reading →

Monterey, CA When last we posted, we were enjoying a week in Sacramento.  While there our motorhome friends, Larry and Mary Anne Weinberg finally caught up to us.  They left home in Virginia  just a short time after we left … Continue reading →