The Silver City Ghost Town, in Bodfish, California, was created out of derelict old buildings from the gold mining era that were brought together in a labour of love by some history-loving people. There was a small entrance fee, and the friendly young guy working there spoke with a slightly southern drawl. Some of the…
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After leaving San Francisco we wanted to see Yosemite National Park, so we booked a stay in nearby Oakhurst, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Sometimes it’ll happen that we’ll be driving along and the landscape will change suddenly (such as when we crossed the Manitoba border and abruptly met the prairies). Here, we were…
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Driving over the Golden Gate Bridge, which suddenly appeared after the Robin Williams tunnel, was simply amazing. It’s such a robust monument, and the ride over it went by entirely too quickly. Fortunately, the slower traffic afterwards gave me a chance to look at the city streetscapes as we continued on in search of our…
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As we drove across the state line into California (after being stopped to make sure we weren’t bringing any banned produce in), I rolled down my window and shouted “Woo hoo!!” into the wind. I felt the same way as I did when we drove into Vancouver – excitement and disbelief at having driven so…
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Coos Bay is a small port town at the south end of Oregon. When we drove to the old downtown from nearby North Bend, where we were staying, we could smell the fresh wood chips from the refinery by the water, which had stacks and stacks of logs in the yard. Eric really liked the…
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