TRAMTASTIC! (Well, cable cars to be precise)
As well as the Golden Gate Bridge (mentioned in the previous post), if you asked somebody to name 3 things about San Francisco, I'd bet...
Golden Gate Bridge!!!!
Our trip wouldn't be right if we didn't head south to one of the most iconic structures in the world, so here we are, and it lives upto...
Pub quiz trivia
A little American Victorian town called Mendocino on Route 1 in North California...another place built on the lumber trade, but (more...
I'm a Lumberjack....
Immortalised for so many through the lyrics of Monty Python, it's been interesting to learn about the development of an industry that's...
Mighty Mighty Redwoods
The Coastal Redwood, sequoia sempervirens, is the tallest tree species in the world. View along the Avenue of the Giants Usual top height...
Nature's Pressure Valves
One of the stunning highlights of the trip so far has been Crater Lake. It was touch and go whether we'd even be able to get to it or...
Driving back from the coast we spotted this... Or rather, it loomed up on us!
Turns out this WWII US Navy Blimp Hangar in Tillamook, Oregon, is the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world, covering 7...
Sustainability starting at home
We can probably all say that we recycle glass, plastics, paper etc, and a lot of us will use compost bins, but how many of us think about...
River Reliant
The production of hydropower due to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s was the primary instrument of economic change in the...
Does a road always need to be for getting from A to B?
Our first day of exploring today, and I thought it would be a nice scenic route to take The Historic Columbia River Highway... what an...
