Right, the last update from San Francisco before I fly back home. Yesterday Jim & Wendy took me on another sightseeing tour of San Francisco via the coastal scenic route via Half Moon Bay. The weather was glorious, blue sky and a nice warm sun. I managed to get some great photos of the Golden [...]
On Friday Jim kindly took me on a tour of San Francisco…when we set off there was a slight fog (but not nearly as bad as it can get!) and some haze, caused by the recent (and ongoing) forest fires in California. Due to this the first views of the Golden Gate bridge were a [...]
On Wednesday we went down to the famous Tehachapi Loop where trains loop around a hill then over themselves in order to climb the steep grade. It is very impressive to see, especially when you can see the front of the train passing you while it climbs over the rest of it coming out of [...]
Sorry for the lack of updates…have finally summoned up some energy to put something together, so hopefully will get you up to date!! On Tuesday we drove past Edwards Airforce Base, where the Space Shuttle sometimes lands. Unfortunately we could not get too close, so could not see much. This base is absolutely massive, spreading [...]
A quick update tonight…have been on driving duty (again) today, and am a bit knackered! Yesterday (Saturday) we spent a few hours at the National Train Show in Anaheim, then went to one of the local train yards to see what was happening down there… Graham finally arrived at about 8.15pm, so we picked him [...]
you get to LA…!  12 lanes of slow-moving traffic at 8.30pm!! And that was the tail-end of the rush hour!! Luckily we arrived down in LA just at the end of rush hour, but I still got a taster of what the traffic is like here!  I won’t ever complain about the M25 [...]