“You lose sight of things... and when you travel, everything balances out.”

It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to add photos, so there are a lot here. We’re in a hotel in Boise, Idaho at the moment as part of our trip to Yellowstone. It’s nice to be out of the woods and a tent for a change. Tomorrow we will be at Yellowstone, where we’ll be camping for 3 nights. From then on it will more or less be a straight haul back to NH to make it home around July 18^th , with a few things in between. It’s been a wild trip so far, but it’s sadly coming to an end in a week.

We left Oregon today, where we spent a few days in various parts. I don’t have the photos uploaded yet, but will have them eventually. We spent yesterday and Portland, and the day before that we camped on a random beach and made a fire. Nobody was really around to bother us. It was really nice. Prior to that we were in the Redwood National Forest, which was really nice.

We drove all along the coast from San Diego and up to Oregon. What an amazing drive that was. It’s something that everybody should try to do at least once, if not more times.

One thing is certain; this trip is VERY well documented. I’ve taken about 3,000 photographs. They’re all really great and have a story. Here are some more of them:

Looking down Hoover Dam
















Hoover Dam














Emily and her cousin that lives in Las Vegas. Boston fans are found everywhere.
















View from the restaurant in the mountains that we went to just outside Las Vegas.
















Fountain show on the strip















Future gambling addiction in the making...






























Part of the Pirate Show are Treasure Island















It gets hot in the California Desert















Rabbits at the campground near San Diego















San Diego skyline from Coronado Island















Someone let us hang out with their parot during the sunset just south of San Diego at Imperial Beach. You could litterally see Mexico, and my phone connected to their tower making it think I crossed the border.
















On the flight deck on the U.S.S. Midway. We got a free tour because we're special.
















Here are some crabs.
















Somewhere in San Diego. It's a very nice place.

Took a stroll through a San Diego cactus garden.

A fountain in San Diego

This kitten wandered up to our campsite one morning.

A very clever turtle in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Mission

Santa Barbara is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. Photos just can't do it justice.

Arroyo Burro Beach in Santa Barbara. It's a dog beach. During our last night in the city, we took our shower in the outdoor beach shower that they have to rinse off in. People looked at us strange, but apparently they don't know how the difficulties of camping cross country.

Part of the view from a restaurant where we had dinner. The other side was the ocean.

We took a long and very hot hike in the Santa Barbara mountains.

A Dutch city called Solvang. The whole city looks like this.

Sea lions and pelicans we saw on a rock during a drive.

Somewhere around Big Sur I think. REALLY nice place.

Big Sur sunset

Haight & Ashbury in San Francisco- where the hippy movement started. It's an interesting place.

Atop Mt. Tamalpais, where we camped just outside of San Francisco.

The sunset that followed on top of the mountain.

(We also watched the 4th of July fireworks from up there. Saw San Francisco, Berkeley, Richmond, and many other displays all at once!)

The "Painted Ladies" of San Francisco.

San Francisco is a very interesting city.

Trolly with Alcatraz in the Background. This is just as we were turning right to go down Lombard Street, "The Crookest street in America"

Driving down the windy road.

Alcatraz

Goldengate Bridge

Somewhere on the coast.

Part of the view from the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite.

Sunset on Glacier Point

Waterfall with the sun setting behind me.

Management fire in the park

Top and bottom parts of the tallest waterfall in the country 5th tallest in the world.

Another waterfall - Bridalveil

The tallest waterfall again.

At the base of the bottom portion of the tall waterfall.

Yosemite's Half Dome during sunset. The sun set behind me, but made the dome look really great.

Inside an old dead Sequoia tree.

On a hike through a Sequoia grove, we saw this brown bear. He didn't look too happy to see us there, then started walking straight towards us. We started walking away backwards while facing it (never turn your back to a bear!) Then it started running. Fortunately it was away from us.

Once I realized he didn't want us for lunch, I tried taking a picture of him while he was running away. You can't tell from this photo, but he was about 25 feet or so away when he was at his closest. He was really big. It was quite the rush! It turns out it was probably more scared of us than we were of it.