Month: October 2015
The Dalles and The Columbia Gorge
We left Bend early this morning and drove north to a city called The Dalles on the Columbia River. Most of the countryside consisted of a flat lava plain that was intersected by gorges and ravines. It was a very dry area, and I think the locals refer to it as a ‘desert’. In the […]
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Bend
We are now in the city of Bend, Oregon. Over the past few days we have passed through the towns of Glide, Weed, Talent and Steamboat, so Bend, as a name, is not all that unusual. Bend is located on the eastern edge of the Cascade Range along the Deschutes River. It was originally a crossing […]
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Roseburg
Tonight we are in Rosberg, Oregon. We left Medford this morning when it was cloudy and about 7C but by the afternoon the day had become a sunny warm day at 18C. We drove up to Grants Pass which was written up as being a city full of adventure – white water rafting, kayaking, hiking […]
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Medford
We have had two days in Medford, Oregon, with a mixture of scenery activities and weather. Yesterday, our drive north from Redding was short, but interesting. Volcanism has played a big part in forming the landscape of this part of Northern California and southern Oregon. There are a chain of very large volcanoes (Cascade range) […]
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Redding
Tonight, we are in the northern Californian city of Redding. We had a late start leaving our previous nights stay at Chico and we have spent the day meandering to reach here in the early afternoon. Before we left Chico, we visited the Honey Run covered bridge with its unique three level roofline. (When you […]
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Yosemite National Park
We left San Francisco on Highway 580E with our GPS guiding us across the Bay Bridge. It was quite a challenge travelling on a major six lane freeway and trying to predict which was the right lane for us to be in. Eventually we turned off onto Highway 6 and then 120 towards Yosemite. I’m […]
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The ‘Nanny State’
I really think that Australia is becoming a ‘Nanny State’. (A place where government regulation is so intrusive that you are guided in almost every conceivable way in which you behave in the community. In Australia, or example, it is compulsory to wear bicycle helmets, have permits for nearly everything we do in the community […]
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Touring San Francisco
After an early start for our day yesterday, we took it easy today with quite a late start. (The hotel was still serving breakfast, so we really weren’t that late). We decided to see more of the city on the Hop-on Hop-off bus. In most paces we have been, we have found this to be […]
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San Francisco
San Fransisco is our current location in our newest odyssey as we visit North America. We plan to drive from here to Yosemite National Park and then north into Oregon through some of the scenic roads for which it is famous. Then we will return back to San Francisco down Highway One along the Oregon […]
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Lord Howe Island Photo Workshop
I’ve just returned from spending a week on Lord Howe Island – participating in a photography workshop led by David Burren and Michael Snedic. These guys are outstanding photographers and are excellent tutors. We had ten people on the workshop and it was wonderful to have a whole week in which to concentrate on photo […]
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