American adventure : October 2016

Monday, 17 October 2016

San Francisco

California has had drought for 4 years.
It chose to rain the one day we visited!
Good for the trees (the estimated tree death is 66 million) but not for our open but tour!
Its not an outing of the KKK its the plastic ponchos we were given to keep us dry. ..they failed :0)
In China town the rain stopped so we got off the bus and had a few hours shoppping and eating.
Off to Sacramento today....Houston and Louisiana tomorrow.

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Sequoia animals!

a little blurred bird.

a bunch of BEARS!

and a bit of a big tarantula Smile

a squirrel eating a cone,

a blue Jay.

Sequoia N.P.

Too vast to only put two pictures……biggest tree in the world by volume.

A very special day……….to be continued!

Death Valley to Sequoia N.P.

I have cheated a bit, as the coyote was the previous day….but these two GO TOGETHER !!

Coyote………AND

ROAD RUNNER !

BEEP BEEP !!!

Las Vegas to Death Valley

As expected not a lot of life here! We did see Coyote(s) and will post those later.

Monday, 10 October 2016

LAS VEGAS....Chuck E Cheese for (not so) grown ups !

Inside Caesar.s Palace, its a shopping centre !

The stratosphere

Hoover Dam

This is the ladies rest room !

Yosemite

These are not the best photos of Yosemite..they are all on the other camera...I will get them put on later when we have a better connection possibly at Cailho!

Route 66

Just us and our camper on Route 66.

Helicopter Ride into the Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon by Helicopter.

This is the Colorado river cutting through the canyon.

This is one of many, many pictures we took flying above.

Saturday, 8 October 2016

Grand Canyon day one

Here we are!
Just us two and the GC!

We also saw a male Elk wallowing by the road side....we have much better pics than this...but they are on the other camera, this was the best the phone would do.
We wondered why cars were stopped at the road side all these people with their cameras....then we saw him...magnificent.

Arriving at Grand Canyon

Desert view watch tower.
Unfortunately (or not) tower was closed for repair.......but heres the view from the ground, at roughly 7000 feet above sea level.

Its THE GRAND CANYON !!

Tick off bucket list !!

Tuba City to G. Canyon

We get to spend the whole morning in Tuba City....one home of the Navajo.
We ate in Navajo restaurant last night, and this morning we visited the museum.
Its a very rich, but sad and cruel history...and then after all the settlers did to them....they volunteered to be "coders" in WW2.....they passed messages in Navajo as it was quicker than code, but completely incomprehensible to the Japanese.