Vancouver, BC -- Hudson NH
September 20, 2007 - October 18th, 2007
Highlights
- Visit Scott's brother and his wife in Vancouver, WA. We brought, and Scott prepared dinner there. They're probably still eating the leftovers...
- Visits to friends of Scott's in Santa Barbara and Scott's Valley CA, and a couple of Kathy's school mates in San Francisco, and around Palo Alto, CA. Some time spent wandering around San Francisco too -- an old haunt of Scott's, and go together with university-friends from Waterloo, relocated in California
- Driving the Pacific Coast Higway, visiting Pt Lobos park, Crescent City CA, Redwood National Forest, Mendocino, Joshua Tree National Forest, Big Sur,
- After a nice get-tegether with Rick Willer between Phoenix and Tucson, we spent about 4 hours driving over a 20 mile mountain pass on an "unmaintained" park road (yes, it was as "rustic" as you might imagine)
- Checking out the real estate market in Tucson (and some excellent dining there, too)
- Two long days of driving, from Tucson to east Texas ("Van Horn") then there to Austin -- more good eats and house-hunting. Kathy ended up giving a free "Financial Independence" seminar to our young potential-Real Estate Agents. Seemed like the logical thing to do at the time.
- Onward to Dallas (fetch our SCUBA gear, waiting at friends'), Sherman TX (Kathy's cousin Rick Simpson), two long days driving to Grand Rapids, a foray to Ann Arbor for a U of Michigan football game.
- East! Stopping in Toronto for a reunion with our Vancouver -> Cologne -> Toronto friends
- East'er still! Keene, NY -- friends Dave & Jim
- The final leg -- back to New Hampshire.
