Our first major trip was to Niagara Falls in the summer of 1974. The poor pictures I took with the cheap camera I had wouldn't do justice to the site. The other spectacular places we visited was the Grand Canyon and Yosemite.
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| Lake Erie near Cleveland |
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| On my boat, 5-12-2014 |
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In May 2006 I invited my friend Tibor from Hungary to California, I took a month vacation and took him around the state from Los Angeles to Sacramento, Sonoma Valley, San Francisco, San Diego and even to Tijuana Mexico.
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We made short trips on nice days since late January 2010 to the San Gabriel Mountains, the High Desert, the Sierra Madre Mountains and the local Vazquez Rocks.
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Trip to Mount Whitney
On a warm afternoon in early February we hit the road on Highway 14 towards Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the contiguous U.S. at 14 497 feet or 4 418 m. We left at 1:00 pm, crossed the Mojave Desert and the Red Rocks Canyon Park, past Owens Lake on Highway 395 and stopped in Lone Pine. The scenery is exotic and beautiful; sometimes it resembles the surface of the Mars or other alien planet. Who wants to go there to risk a 2 year trip locked up in a capsule with a possibility of no return that costs billions of dollars when one can find it here on Earth, so close to us?
A closeup picture can be seen at this website:
http://www.wesleybakersfield.org/shoffner/pic18o.htm
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