Trees of Mystery I was recently on vacation up to the Oregon coast. I had a blast. Not just in the things we did, but the drive is drop dead gorgeous once. The Redwood trees are amazing and quite awe-inspiring. I have been through the Avenue of the Giants before,but I always get the same feelings of reverence when I…
There was much excitement in the Donnell Family. Finally after so many years of scrimping and saving, Mr. and Mrs. Donnell had saved enough money to take all of the family, all 8 of them, on vacation Previously only the child closest to their 16th had been sent on vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Donnell thought that since the oldest would…
One of my most favorite things I did on my trip to Arizona was to go visit a place called Bearizona. Oh my that was the best. I was excited, scared, nervous, and amazed when visiting Bearizona. Ok, I was a big fat scaredy cat for some of it. I had never been that close to some of those animals…
My most favorite parts of this trip was going through the Avenue of The Giants. It is a 31 mile portion of old highway 101 in Northern California. I loved it. We drove really slow through it with the windows wide open. It was very cold, so we had the heater going full blast as well. Worth it. To see…
Since we were travelling on the Fourth of July, and since I really, really like fireworks, no matter what the occasion, I had hoped we would find some, somewhere. Since Benbow and Garberville did not work out and I was honestly just getting tired, I had pretty much given up hope for fireworks. Although there were plenty of chain motels…
For the last couple of days I have been on a Vagabond Vacation. A Vagabond Vacation is one where there are no real plans, no set schedules, just point yourself in one direction and go. This time went north. The only plan I had was to visit an Indian Casino as I have never been. Other than that, we just…
I have never had an official vacation, not counting the two times I got to go to Disneyland and Hawaii both for a week. I do believe that was the only real, planned, on purpose vacation that. Don’t get me wrong, I have travelled but for the most part, it was mostly in conjunction with work of some kind. I…