Photos and text revealing some of the most scenic places to visit in California
While visiting the Monterey Bay area, we stayed at an RV Park called Carmel by the River, which is a few miles east of Carmel-by-the-Sea (Carmel) on Carmel Valley Road. It is a small private RV park, owned and operated… Read More »Carmel-by-the-Sea
After our visit to the Oregon Dunes, we returned to California for an extended stay in the Monterey Bay area. We ended up spending most of our time in Carmel-by-the-Sea, which I will tell you about in the next post,… Read More »Pacific Grove and Monterey
About 90 minutes south of Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast lies the Oregon Sand Dunes National Recreation Area. According to several sources, these are the largest coastal sand dunes in North America, stretching 40 miles north to south along… Read More »The Oregon Coast, Part 2
I can predict the weather in Coastal Oregon for any day in August, any year in the near future. It will be partly cloudy, with humidity in the 70 to 80 percent range and daytime temperatures in the mid 60s. … Read More »The Oregon Coast Part 1
As I mentioned in my first post, our ultimate destination on this trip was Seattle, Washington. We went to visit our son who lives there and to spend a few days in the Yakima Valley area, east of Seattle, which… Read More »Yakima Valley and Seattle Washington
You may be starting to notice a definite theme to our choice of destinations for this trip! From Paso Robles, we headed to the Russian River Valley, an area in southern Mendocino County just north of the Sonoma County line.… Read More »Russian River/ Sonoma & Mendocino Counties
Our first stop was Paso Robles, where we were delighted to experience afternoon high temperatures in the upper eighties, which were a welcome change from the heat of Palm Springs and allowed us to enjoy our wine tastings outdoors. This… Read More »Paso Robles
Our most recent journey began in Palm Springs on August 9. We got off to a rather slow start, in terms of sights seen and photographs taken, for a number of reasons. Since our ultimate destination was Seattle, Washington, approximately… Read More »The Road Trip Begins…