Road Trip – Day Fifteen- Yosemite

After we left Monterrey we drove toward Yosemite. I had planned for us to stop a couple hours from the park and drive the rest of the way in the morning since it was already late afternoon when we left. Somehow the campground was not where our GPS said it should be and apparently we […]


Road Trip – Day Fourteen- Big Sur and Carmel

We camped in Big Sur Campground in Big Sur, CA. It was in a wooded area amongst Redwoods and along a river. Here is the van in our campsite to show the scale of some of the tall trees. It seems the Coastal Redwoods are pretty common. This was a few yards from our site. […]


Road Trip – Day Fourteen- Big Sur and Carmel

We camped in Big Sur Campground in Big Sur, CA. It was in a wooded area amongst Redwoods and along a river. Here is the van in our campsite to show the scale of some of the tall trees. It seems the Coastal Redwoods are pretty common. This was a few yards from our site. […]


Road Trip – Days 12 and 13 – San Francisco

On the twelth day of our vacation we went into San Francisco again. This time we went back to Japantown for a about an hour and then to the Haight section of the city. I was hoping it would be a good place to go shopping. I was kinda dissapointed. I thought they would have […]


Road Trip – Day Eleven-San Francisco

On this day we took the ferry to San Francisco from Larkspur, CA where we were staying and visited a few of the well known neighborhoods. The first one we visited was Chinatown. We spent a lot of time there. We kept looking for the “cool area”. I visited here when I was a kid […]


Road Trip – Day Ten- Driving to San Francisco

We left Trinidad and traveled down 101 to San Francisco. We stopped at the Humboldt Redwoods State Park. I read that this is were the tallest Redwoods were. I didn’t end up taking any more redwood photos but did see this deer. Just as at the national park I felt it was not as organized […]