The beauty of our Petaluma home base other than being a fantastic city in itself (more on Petaluma in another chapter), is that there are several destinations within a hundred miles or less that present us with a nice change of scenery.
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| Not bad RV parking, eh? |
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| Pastoral golden foothills |
Our friends of back in the Half Moon Bay days, Don and Joan, live out in the country near Ione, CA, in the Sierra Foothills. They have 5 beautiful oak studded, horse grazing acres that nicely accommodate Don's passion for saving everything old and Joan's for collecting rocks...mostly agates they gather from the beaches in Oregon during their summer travels. Our RV parking site isn't bad either!
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| Collection of glass insulators |
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| Agates & other precious rocks make for a nice birdhouse... |
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| Love these clouds |
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| Is this a geode?? |
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| Just over the fence these alpacas pose |
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| And a prickly pear blossom harbors a pollen-covered bee! |
If we head south about 30 miles on Highway 101 we encounter a whole new scene! Another landscape unfolds as we cross the Golden Gate Bridge, which by the way, no longer collects tolls at the booth but videos your license plate number and bills you according to registration info...smile for Big Brother, though it does save a lot of time!
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| The famous GG Bridge looms large... |
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| The Ferry Building, my favorite place |
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| At Fisherman's Wharf |
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| The City by the Bay |
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Lunch at the Waterfront Restaurant with a Bay Bridge view!
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| The streets of San Francisco |
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| The America's Cup has it's own terminal along The Embarcardero |
And then there's the seashore and the Napa Valley wine country. We'll save those for another day. It's always nice to come back to these beautiful, grand faces...
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| Granddaughters, Noelle 17 and Christina 6 1/2 |
20 comments:
You are surrounded by beauty - in the scenery and by your precious grandchildren.
Wow, I should check on becoming an Elk - last year I joined "Women of the Moose."
Oh, you should Cheryl! This is a great location for lots of day tripping...
I love, love, love San Francisco.
SF is the best, but then I'm a bit prejudiced! LA has some pretty incredible cities too...N'awlins for sure!
Nice views from this "Best friends campground." I'm not much of a city girl but SF is my favorite. Once lived in Mt View.
Pretty scenery. I detour around cities if at all possible LOL!! Portland, OR is too big for my taste but at least I don't get lost there. Your granddaughters are just beautiful!
SF is great. Know ur not driving RV to see sights. Did not know about video billing on GG bridge. Wonder how the LLC would handle that
Mt. View and Half Moon Bay; might have crossed paths back in the day! Need to visit your beautiful North Rim one of these days, Gaelyn.
Thanks Donna! Portland is a scary maze we endure when en route. Need to get better acquainted as I know it has much to see and do.
But we do have to drive the RV through the City when traveling north to south, etc., as it does not have a bypass route, as you know. But to sight-see, we drive or take the ferry. Yeah, we're wondering how long it will take the bridge billing of our TX license and mail forwarding to reach us!
We love San Francisco and visit every chance we get - like last April on our way home. We were staying in Marina Bay on the Monterey Peninsula but it was well worth the 2 hour drive up to San Francisco for a day visit.
Your photos brought back some great memories for me, thanks!
Thank you Rick! And we love your Victoria and Vancouver Island. One of our best trips ever was the BC ferry circle pac, before it was discontinued. We drove all the way to Port Hardy in the RV before heading over to Powell River on the sunshine coast and took the jeep on most of the backroads heading west.
Except for a short weekend visit, we haven't had a chance to really visit SF ... for sure when we get west we will spend time in the area. In the meantime, thanks for the tour.
Great photos. That Christina looks like she is a live wire! Big sis is cute. You are making us want to follow your wheels. Never been to S. F. maybe this July.
Love the clouds! .... and that tall tree dominating the landscape.
Your grand daughters are beautiful!
Petaluma, eh? That's beautiful scenery. I'll go Google Maps that puppy.
Erin, I'm enjoying your tour of the southeast. We hope to do that route next spring. It's been a few years since we were east; mainly due to high fuel prices!
Christina is one continuous cartwheel! Hard to keep up with that energy. July would be a great time in the Bay area. Never gets really hot, always the ocean breezes! And much to see and do...
That tall succulent happens to be an Agave or Century plant. Unfortunately the base is hidden behind the bush. Certain species are grown in Mexico for Tequila!!
Ahhh...Roxanne, time to spread your wings. Nice area for summer migration!
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