We did a short hike from one lake to another, and got great views of Mt. Shasta. We then spent the afternoon in town.
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All in California
We did a short hike from one lake to another, and got great views of Mt. Shasta. We then spent the afternoon in town.
Our first full day around Mt. Shasta had us doing two hikes. One gave us a very close view of the mountain, and the other went between three waterfalls.
Another travel day. We met a friend I worked with at a previous job for brunch, then we drove to Mt. Shasta.
This was a quiet day for us, the first one of the trip. We walked along the Los Gatos Creek in the morning, met some friends for lunch, and hung out at a café in the afternoon.
We spent the day in San Francisco, going to SF MOMA and walking from Chinatown through North Beach and to the Embarcadero.
We headed out to the coast of the San Francisco Peninsula for the day, doing a walk along Half Moon Bay and looking at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse.
We did a shorter hike with the group and joined them for lunch by a lake. We then spent the afternoon in Shingletown.
The itinerary for this day was very fluid, and we ended up about half an hour behind everyone else. We went to Bumpass Hell, which is sort of like many features of Yellowstone in one area. We also did a driving tour of some of the other highlights in the park.
This was the first day that everyone on the Redwood/Lassen trip were together. We hiked in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, which itself is part of Redwood National Park. We did a couple of hikes among the redwoods, and had a bit of excitement both going to the trails and after the hikes.
After leaving Death Valley National Park, we drove to Las Vegas for a few nights. We spent a lot of time in Valley of Fire State Park and shared many meals with family, having a great time throughout.
After Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, the second half of our trip was to Los Angeles. Melody was at a conference for the American Translators Association, so I did a combination of playing tourist and seeing family.
Since Melody had a conference in Los Angeles in the middle of October, and we decided to leave a few days early to have some time in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. I hadn't been there since elementary school, and this would be Melody's first time. We did quite a bit of hiking, as well as many of the tourist favorites.
Traditions can come and go, but one that has been going for more than a half-century is my family gathering to make mochi for the new year. Melody and I also manage to play tourist for a day, and this year we walked along Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards.
