Where We've Been

Greetings from the California coast. A lot has happened since our last blog. We lost our phone for a while, eventually gutted the van, then found it next to the laptop. Now we have internet again, though we're using the internet at the campsite where we stayed last night. I'll see if I can recap what we've been through since the last post.

Dang, I don't think I mentioned the Grand Canyon yet, and that seems like we were there weeks ago. Very beautiful. Not much more to say. I have many pictures, and I intend to organize those soon and get them posted to Picasa so y'all can see them. I climbed to some pretty crazy places, took the dogs on no-dog-trails, and watched the sun set while talking to a nice ranger fella.

We then decided to head up to Utah as was our original plan. After checking out some of the really cool rock stuff there, we turned around and headed for Vegas. I almost got Bethany to gamble on a slot machine at the pitstop we made, but she held firm. We then bought a milkshake and hit the road for California.

We wiggled (and all you can do on most of California roads is wiggle at about 30 mph) to Sequoia National Park. Very scary on the roads, but very beautiful. The pugs had fun claiming some of the largest trees in the world. Bethany napped while I went up to some very scary perches. The pictures are neato.

To wrap up, we then spent two HOT days at a recreation (read: boating) park where I got sunburned and we found the phone after reorganizing the van. Yesterday we then went to Yosemite, gave a lift to two pretty cool older hikers back to the car then left for a 3 day hike, then went to a place south of San Francisco. We slept amongst trees that are thousands of years old. Very cool. Literally. Bethany has been freaking out now that we are out of the heat (in a good way). We then basically gave San Francisco the finger by only visiting for an hour. Long enough for Phillip to pee on it and me to get a burger from McDonalds (though Bethany did get some sourdough bread which is apparently San Fran's thing). That brings us up to date!

I will be back with more details and pictures in short order. Until then: toodles!