We have now started our road trip out west. Today we drove 545 miles. Thankfully most of it was on interstate 94, so we could go 75mph. The view of the drive was so beautiful. The rolling hills of grass and the various fields were fun to watch going by. It is such a change from the forests that I see at home. But not everything on 94 was natural. We saw from a distance some huge statues, otherwise known as touristy stops. The world's largest buffalo, sand hil...

The last night of our trip we went back to Las Vegas. We were pretty tired from such a trip. So we just wanted to walk a little of the strip at night and watch a show or two of the Bellagio fountains. The strip is just amazing at night. Everything is so lit up and beautiful, in a neon sort of way. We got to the fountains just as a show was finishing up. That was perfect because we could find a spot to stand and watch the next show. The fountains dance to music ev...

In the last days of our trip we visited some national parks: Yosemite, King's Canyon, Sequoia and Zion. We absolutely loved being in these parks. Here are a few overviews of what we did. Yosemite National Park This park was busy. There were so many people here. But that didn't ruin the time we had here. Before we got to the visitor center, we stopped at a small beach overlook to have our picnic lunch. We then went to the visitor center. From there we hiked by Y...

We used all sorts of transportation in San Francisco. Some was used successfully, while others were hard to get a hang of. Here is what we did while trying to navigate the city by the bay. Train - Our hotel was in Fremont, which is a suburb of San Francisco. So we were able to take the BART train into town. It was easy to figure out. Boat - We took a boat out to Alcatraz Island. Once we got there we found out that there was a garden tour of the island right a...

We spent a couple of days enjoying the middle coast of California. We were driving between Los Angeles and San Francisco. This part of the trip was super enjoyable. We did a calm pace and saw some amazing things. It seemed that most of the fun we had, had something to do with water. On the water - We went on a whale watching trip by the Channel Islands. I knew it wasn't whale watching season, but thought it would still be fun. We didn't get to see whales, or ev...