These pictures start from the end of our trip and work backward...oops.
At Crater Lake, Oregon...beautiful and cold.
Boat ride on Lake Shasta to Caverns on other side...touristy but not busy the day we went.
The one night we spent at a hotel, we had so much fun and got a much needed good night's sleep after sleeping in the truck for over a week.
This is at Lassen National Volcanic Park, the hike was to a place called Bumpass Hell where a guy named Kendall Bumpass discovered mud pots and boiling pools, but lost his leg to one when the surface gave way burning his leg in 240 degree sulfur water. So they built boardwalks to prevent this for tourists ;)
This was in a ghost town called Bodie, and old mining town in California preserved as it was left, they just locked up all the buildings and you walk around looking in windows. I thought this site was pretty cool because it wasn't set up to look like "how it used to be". It was actually left as the people left it...dusty beer bottles and papers on the bars, junk in the sheds, merchandise on the shelves in the mercantile. So if you ever drive through this terrible area of miles and miles of nothing, stop at Bodie.
The picture doesn't show truly how dirty he is, but our campsite was ALL dirt, and he had a marvelous time. We also had a bear visit us during the night here is Yosemite, and I was so thankful for the locked bear boxes the campground provided.
Hiking in Yosemite, stopped for a snack.
Sequioa National Park...he looks like the size of a chipmunk.
We drove through Las Vegas, I hope I never go there again, but it is pretty amazing what they have built in the middle of the desert, the energy that goes into each building and the effort they give to get you to spend money....Most of it a waste, but amazing what man can build. For example S and J are watching the light/water/music show at the Bellagio, where water shoots like 20 stories high or something like that.
The shark aquarium also in Vegas....it was pretty cool, we all thought so.
At Crater Lake, Oregon...beautiful and cold.
Boat ride on Lake Shasta to Caverns on other side...touristy but not busy the day we went.
The one night we spent at a hotel, we had so much fun and got a much needed good night's sleep after sleeping in the truck for over a week.
This is at Lassen National Volcanic Park, the hike was to a place called Bumpass Hell where a guy named Kendall Bumpass discovered mud pots and boiling pools, but lost his leg to one when the surface gave way burning his leg in 240 degree sulfur water. So they built boardwalks to prevent this for tourists ;)
This was in a ghost town called Bodie, and old mining town in California preserved as it was left, they just locked up all the buildings and you walk around looking in windows. I thought this site was pretty cool because it wasn't set up to look like "how it used to be". It was actually left as the people left it...dusty beer bottles and papers on the bars, junk in the sheds, merchandise on the shelves in the mercantile. So if you ever drive through this terrible area of miles and miles of nothing, stop at Bodie.
The picture doesn't show truly how dirty he is, but our campsite was ALL dirt, and he had a marvelous time. We also had a bear visit us during the night here is Yosemite, and I was so thankful for the locked bear boxes the campground provided.
Hiking in Yosemite, stopped for a snack.
Sequioa National Park...he looks like the size of a chipmunk.
We drove through Las Vegas, I hope I never go there again, but it is pretty amazing what they have built in the middle of the desert, the energy that goes into each building and the effort they give to get you to spend money....Most of it a waste, but amazing what man can build. For example S and J are watching the light/water/music show at the Bellagio, where water shoots like 20 stories high or something like that.
The shark aquarium also in Vegas....it was pretty cool, we all thought so.
Wow...what a fantastic trip! Thanks for all the pics!
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