San Fernando Valley

So we arrived at the Thousand Trails Park in Acton, got set up and called my Uncle.  Went to see him on Saturday, he asked us if we could take him on some errands which of course we could.  It was agreed we would bring the trailer down, park it in his driveway and use our truck to take him where he wanted to to.  Sunday Jon and I went to Vasquez Rocks County Park.  In all the years we lived  in the area, we had never been there.

The odd shapes and slanted rocks are the results of earthquakes, this area is on the San Andreas Fault, and there are a lot of quakes here, some big some small.

Then on Tuesday we parked the trailer in his driveway.  While we were having lunch one of his Dr’s called and wanted to see him that afternoon.  The news wasn’t good, the cancer is back.  The rest of the evening we talked about the next step, a bone biopsy.  That’s what we are waiting on now, after that ….. well, we will just have to wait and see.

Saturday my brother and his wife came up from Ramona for a visit.

This last one is looking across the street at sunset.

California Central Valley

Much changed since we last traveled Highway 99, either North or South.  This valley is where a major portion of food is grown, however, now there is a big problem with water – they don’t have it!  There is a drought, but that isn’t the main problem, most of the water is going to the new housing that is going up all over this long, long agricultural valley.  We’ve seen groves of nuts; almond, pistachio and walnut, grapes; both wine and table, rice paddies and fields of peppers and corn.  Nearer to Bakersfield we saw fruit trees; peach, plum and orange.  Then smelled garlic.  We also saw several areas of feed lots, mostly milk cows.  We also saw lots of fields left unattended, and that was the saddest part of the drive.  It took us two days to travel from North of Sacramento to Acton (near Palmdale in the Antelope Valley).  Not sure how long we will be here, tomorrow we are heading into the San Fernando Valley to see my Uncle, depending on him is how long we stay.

So here are a few photos from our drive.

First is a rice field, followed by a rice drier then the Sacramento skyline and of course the traffic.  There has been road construction since we left Texas.  And finally, we saw a sign for Livingston, but it isn’t in Texas!

 

Florence to Calif

For the past 4 days we have had no internet, so here’s a brief look at the last 4 days.

 

Jezabel on a hunting trip behind our site at Florence.

Bridge at Coos Bay

National Sand Dunes

The foggy coast

One of the many rivers we crossed, then we were  in the Giant Redwoods, from sun to fog.  These trees love the fog!

The coast, then over the Klamath River and back in to the Redwoods

A Bull Elk, one of many that we saw.  Also went past a herd of female Elk but no where to pull over.

It’s very hard to photograph a Giant Redwood.  This was looking up at towards the top of the tree.

Today we traveled east on Highway 20, thru the mountains towards the central valley farmlands, past Clear Lake.

We stopped for the night at Nicolaus.  It’s North of Sacramento.  We plan to reach the Los Angeles area by Friday.

50 miles today to Florence

The Oregon coast is like no other coast we have ever seen; wild, rugged, windblown, rocky and so very beautiful!  We never get tired of looking at the scenery as we travel south.  Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

A great blue Heron, fishing at low tide.

Heceta Head Lighthouse, followed by the Sea Lion Caves, boy were they noisy!

Our home for the night at the Thousand Trails South Jetty park, just over the Siuslaw River in Florence.  And to the west of the park are the Sand Dunes.