Slideshow Index: Winter Escape Highlights

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• Our van loaded with toys, clothes & camping gear
• Snow in Nevada between Wendover & Winnemucca
• Downtown Reno after another snowstorm
• I80 by Lake Tahoe - 12 to 14 foot snowdrifts
• The Claremont Hotel in Oakland
• Finally, a sun tan starts on the Claremont deck
• Paths and ground cover on the Claremont grounds
• Montery Aquarium
• Montery Aquarium - Coral & standard colered Moray eels
• Bannerfish, Damselfish & Yellow Tang
• Wharf restaurant & beach in Cannery Row
• The Carmel Mission Basilica
• Starting ride at Lovers Point in Montery
• Riding along Montery Bay on 17 mile drive
• Cyprus grove on the 17-mile drive
• Kathy at the entrance signs
• Big Sur, 1/18, heading south on Highway 1 from Carmel
• Big Sur, a view south
• Elephant seals just north of San Simeon
• San Simeon - Hearst Castle on the mountain top
• Hearst Castle - Neptune Pool
• Neptune Pool - View from upper deck
• Twin towers of the main house
• Typical Randolph Hearst supper setup
• Rendezvous alcove of the indoor pool
• Statue in front of downtown Cambria jewely store
• Downtown West Village of Cambria
• Fourteen foot waves at Cambria
• End of Big Sur
• Downtown San Luis Obispo
• What's left of San Luis Obispo Chinatown
• This theater was solar powered
• Thursday night farmers market on Higuera Street
• Entrance to Michael Jackson's Neverland (4 miles N of Los Olivos)
• Los Olivos main street (set for Sideways movie)
• Arnie enjoying a wine tasting session
• Solvang, a Danish settlement
• Stern's Wharf in Santa Barbara
• A Pelican looking for a handout
• The skateboard park on the Santa Barbara beach
• Riding along the beach trail
• Santa Barbara Harbor near our motel
• Santa Barbara - Talking to Edwin in Texas
• Santa Barbara - Mission and grounds
• Mission Garden and giant "Fig" tree
• Giant Australian Fig tree (Ficus)
• Mission reflection in the fountain
• Sedgewick riders at the beach
• Sunday - Two mile stretch of arts and crafts
• Santa Barbara Courthouse entrance
• View north from the courthouse roof
• El Paseo steps on State Street
• Our hotel one block from the harbor
• A few of the stars on Hollywood Boulevard (LA)
• Kathy at the Grumann Chinese Theater - Hollywood
• Some costumed people hamming it up for the tourists
• Carry Grant's hand and foot prints
• In the Chinese Theater gift shop
• The Kodak Theater entrance (Oscar awards)
• Yorba Linda - Nixon Library grounds, family home
• Nixon Library gardens
• Newport Beach pier - Kayaker at work
• Laguna Beach and surrounding hills
• Bike ride around San Diego Mission Bay
• Arnie at San Diego Sea World entrance
• Del Coronado Hotel in San Diego
• Kathy under the entrance tree
• Hotel lobby interior and chandalier
• Interior courtyard behind the lobby
• View from the outside bar deck
• Kathy writing post card from Tijuana, Mexico
• An a side street away from Avenida Revolucion (tourist trap street)
• Bet you didn't know I owned a barber shop in Tijuana
• San Diego Old Town
• The church in Old Town
• Kathy in her element in the Old Town market
• Mission Bay boardwalk along the beach
• Approaching Palm Springs from the south
• Palm Springs Desert Museum - Calvary & Indian sculpture
• These are actually life-like sculptures
• How real can you get?
• Desert Museum entrance
• Palm Springs Air Museum, B-17 cockpit
• Touring the B-17 bomber
• A look at the B-17 gunner section
• Docent and Kathy in front of a Tucker car
• Corsair fighter, Bob Kilgore flew one of these in WWII
• Palm Springs Aerial Tram - View from the top
• It's winter at 9,000 feet. Threw some snowballs
• Back to the golf course in 75 degree January weather
• Palm Court Hotel, nice jacuzzi by our room
• Lake Havasu City, Arizona, the transplanted London Bridge
• Lake Havasu City tourist center
• Early February snow near Flagstaff, AZ
• Oak Creek Canyon
• Typical formation in Oak Creek Canyon
• A bridge view near Sedona
• Oak Creek Canyon
• Sedona scenery
• Sedona scenery - good cloud shadows
• Butte near Sedona
• Kathy at entrance to Sabino Canyon (Tucson, AZ)
• On the Sabino Canyon tram and hike
• Sabino Canyon cacti
• A river runs through it
• Beautiful tree along the canyon road
• Sabino Canyon river view
• A closer view of Saguaro cactus
• A sidewinder at the Tucson Desert Museum
• A mountain lion (cougar) at the Desert Museum
• The typical coyote
• Barrel Cactus
• A bobcat (lynx)
• A western mountain goat
• The Welcome sign at Tombstone, AZ
• A Tombstone Bed & Breakfast
• Stagecoach rides are popular
• The genuine OK Corral
• An interesting old west saloon
• Gunfight stage - Another one bites the dust
• The blank bullets were very noisy
• You can see the smoke from the guns
• Nice pose - Interesting feeling to have pistols pointed at you
• Arnie about to be hanged in Tombstone
• Crossing the flat desert of southern New Mexico
• The bridge from Corpus Christi to North Padre Island
• Very flat, compacted white sand beaches
• Kathy and the Gulf of Mexico
• In line for the short ferry trip back to Corpus Christi
• Beach area in front of our condo rental unit (2 nights)
• Supper at Snoopy's near the bridge
• The fisherman was wading in shallow shoals
• The sunset view from the back door of our condo
• Edwin playing softball in Weslaco, TX (Rio Grande Valley)
• Connie & Kathy playing bingo at the activity center
• Fat Daddy's restaurant decorations
• Statues at the Hispanic church in San Juan, TX, west of Weslaco
• Very popular church (English/Spanish service)
• San Juan church interior
• Mariachi style church band
• Connie,Keith,Kathy,Edwin,Mryna, and Arnie
• Progreso, Mexico, main tourist street
• Kathy checking jewelry at the Mexican shops
• A good place to shop and get dental work done
• At a jazz jam session in Pharr, Texas
• Leaving Brownsville for South Padre Island
• Looking northeast along the beaches
• Interesting wind swept dune patterns
• Back to Wayzata on March 6 (after a week in Mexico)
• Nice day, but still plenty of ice on Lake Minnetonka
• Note-Mexico pictures taken with poor-quality single-use cameras. Never again. First restaurant stop in Monterrey
• The colonial architecture in San Louis Potosi
• San Louis Potosi main church
• Mexico City - One of the older Guadalupe Churches
• Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe)
• Notice how the churches are sinking below the sidewalk
• Downtown Mexico City near our hotel
• Government buildings at the main square (zocolo) of Mexico city
• Kathy at the zocolo street stands
• The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan (north of Mexico City)
• There are around 300 steps to the top
• No guard rails, so watch your step
• Kathy at the top (view north)
• Arnie and other Mexican tourists
• Lots of visitors make the climb to the top
• Our tour guide, Pedro and his family, invited our group to his home for refreshments
• They have a beautiful home and back courtyard
• Que bonita (How pretty!)
• South to Xochimilco and the floating gardens
• These colorful gondolas float in the remaining canals of Mexico City
• Another gondola had a Mariachi band that serenaded us
• Cold beers were available with the lunch that Pedro set up for us
• The main cathederal in Cuernavaca (south of Mexico City)
• Just outside of Taxco, between Cuernavaca and Acapulco
• You take a hair raising taxi ride to the center of Taxco
• Taxco is a city of silversmiths
• The main church in Taxco
• Along the narrow and twisted streets of Taxco
• A nice restaurant in the mountains between Mexico City and Tampico (on the Gulf Coast
• We bought some great coffee, grown in this region