Summer of Love Day 25 Log
- 11:11 am: Heading to Carmel this morning.
- 1:48 pm: Amazed with Carmel. Blue Dog gallery is dangerous.
- 4:34 pm: Left Tammy in Carmel for the afternoon. At house with Mazie for nap time.
- 4:55 pm: Ugh - carpenter starts drilling in room right underneath where Mazie is napping!
- 4:58 pm: Theory that we may be the very first guests to stay at this rental house is being reinforced. Not bad. But very uncoordinated.
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Summer of Love Day 24 Log
- Driving down CA-1 to Big Sur. Listening to Jack Johnson. (12:29 pm)
- Feet have sand on them (12:41 pm)
- Amazing morning going down the coast. Early lunch stop at Nepenthe. (1:19 pm)
- Amazing lunch with unbelievable view. Wow. (2:38 pm)
- Possibly the best day of our trip yet. Big Sur and surrounding areas are great! (7:13 pm)
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The traveling family is taking the 4th week of the road trip to eschew a restaurant, and I’m making pasta! Yeah!
Summer of Love Day 22 Log
- 12:03 pm: Leaving San Francisco, headed to Monterey for next stop on Summer of Love.
- 2:08 pm: Pulling into Monterey, CA.
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Expansive, Powerful and Majestic
Our Summer of Love trip was never intended to be a camping or hiking trip. We booked all of our visits in hotels and motels and have stuck to restaurants.
We have had three stops in national parks on the trip and they made a big impact on me. Each one of them represented another facet of nature, facets that we too often forget.
Glacier National Park: Expansive
Mount St. Helens: Powerful
Redwood Forest: Majestic
Humbling.
In line at Tartine Bakery.
Sounds of the Redwoods
While we were walking with the big Redwoods I stopped for a moment to do a quick field recording. This isn’t pristine. You’ll catch a moment of wind noise, and if you listen really, really close you may hear a truck in the distance very faintly. Mainly though, you hear the birds and majesty.
Summer of Love Day 19 Log
- 9:13 am: Anybody know the best, sourest, densest sourdough bakery in San Francisco?
- 11:19 am: Really good breakfast at Savor in San Francisco.
- 4:42 pm: Never realized before how impossible it is to park in San Francisco.
- 6:02 pm: After bricking my Linksys WTR-54GS travel router, I am back on the air with an AirPort Express (and with 802.11n and WPA2).
- 7:05 pm: Really happy to not be in a hotel for this stop on the trip.
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Summer of Love Day 18 Log
- 1:24pm: Stop at Ramone’s Bakery in Eureka, CA.
- 1:46 pm: Having a very nice stop in Old Town section of Eureka.
- 2:18 pm: Mazie and I playing with the pigeons.
- 2:51 pm: Resuming leisurely drive down 101 to San Francisco.
- 8:06 pm: Ate at In-n-Out Burger for the first time. Yum!
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Walking Among the Redwoods
It has been a few days since we were up in Crescent City communing with the big trees. The Redwood Forest was one of the most amazing places I’ve been.
We were limited in our Redwood experience. We didn’t hike for hours in the woods. We stuck to kid friendly areas that were well travelled. However, the force of the giant redwoods is so powerful that it takes you aback the second you see them.
There was a word that kept going through my mind as I looked at them and walked amongst them, majestic. These were the kings of trees. This was, in a way, its own Valley of the Kings. These giant trees that can grow over 350 feet tall and live for as long as 2,000 years tower over you emphatically highlighting the scale of yourself. I couldn’t help but think of what has happened in this world in the lifespan of these majestic trees.
I don’t have the talent to express in words the experience so I’m going to leave it at this. I think these photos do a better job.
