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Olympic Peninsula

Having had a place on the Olympic Peninsula for a while we had visited many of the spots but hadn’t been to Lake Quinault. Having been offered use of our old neighbour’s house for a week we decided to correct that, as well as go back to some more regularly visited spots. First some local…
Road Trip 2022 – To Utah, Colorado and back

This Road Trip was never meant to be such a long road trip – but with Alaska giving us a vague message about cancelled flights, but then having no customer service to be able to help understand what that meant – we cancelled the flights completely, loaded up the car and drove instead! The actual…
Sonoma County and Northern California Coast

We flew down to Sonoma County Airport, grabbed coffee in Windsor at Cafe Noto and had a look around the town before heading up to Montagne for lunch just outside Healdsburg. A walk to stretch our legs round the All the Oaks trail, then back into Healdsburg for dinner at Vallette and out hotel –…
Austin, Texas

First time back to Austin since a ‘study tour’ with IBM more years ago that I care to remember (ok, about 24 years). Staying in a very nice Airbnb right in the center of town. Plenty of good restaurants to visit, but I won’t be taking pictures of those. A bite to eat and good…
Grand Canyon Loop

This trip started and ended in Las Vegas, but all we saw there was the airport and car hire. Headed straight out to the South rim of the Grand Canyon, and then the plan was to loop around. We arrived in snow and fog to the South Rim, but there were some breaks. The following…
San Jose to Santa Barbara – Highway 1 and Big Sur

For this trip we flew into San Jose, drove out through Los Gatos for lunch at Fleur do Cocoa and a wine tasting at Testerossa, before heading to the coast and a walk around Santa Cruz before heading along to Capitola and out hotel. The next day, after breakfast at Verve Coffee, we headed down…