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How far north will you be during winter? I got a propane little buddy heater as I was building my van. I tested it out and learned how much condensation it can create. I don't like creating a bunch of moisture in my van so I have it ventilated well while using the heater, and thus the heater is...

WEBSITE I made a website. It’s basically a blog. The website is called My Wild Dreams . So far I’ve just been setting up the front/landing page, and making a few blog posts to get started. I think I will try to get caught up on my trip reports so far. Now’s a good time for that because I’ll be...

@Steve: No, I didn't go to the mission :o :o I did go by some other old building south of there on the east side of State st... Some really old building.. I thought that was the first place in Santa Barbara.. a fort or something? I'll keep those things in mind for when I go back to Santa...

I've been working on something new. Keep your britches on, folks (Don't get too excited)

Thank you Lonhorn :-D I've been thinking about starting a blog and might end up doing so over the next couple months

Hi PockyBro. Yeah that is how I would describe the feeling and people there as well. Quite tranquil. Glad to read that the surgery went ok. I took almost every picture in this thread using a Nikon D90. The colors looking so saturated is usually from how I edit them in Photoshop. I go overboard...

SANTA BARBARA On my way south, I stopped in San Luis Obispo for a few days. The big news here was that the plants in people’s yards started looking wonderful. And they smelled good! Really fragrant! Wow! Just walking around a block I’d walk by 4 or 5 different wonderful scents from these...

I'm so jealous of all your meat! Great job with tracking the bull. Some day I want to learn how to track, hunt, and process meat. Thanks for sharing!

CAMBRIA, CA If you ever go through this little town, there is a nice park along the coast. It’s called Fiscalini Ranch Preserve. The preserve occupies about 1 square mile. It’s mostly just grass and hills next to the coastline. Along the coast there is a walking trail and a bench every now...

(Continued) This is McWay Falls, in McWay Cove. It’s that famous spot you’ve probably seen a bunch of pictures of. There is a pretty good story about this spot. The two main people in the story are women. I forget the details. One of them was a sort of poor/normal person. I...

CALIFORNIA - BIG SUR I drove all the way through what I consider Big Sur in one day. From Carmel to Cambria. There is a national forest stretching about 50 miles along the coast. There was a big fire this year and that entire district is closed. Normally, it seems like it’d be a wonderful...

That is interesting. I think the best part about it is the built-in app showing where stars, constellations, and planets are. I'd like to see more technical specs. The "Yes, it has coma" is disturbing for a purpose-built and not cheap astrophotography camera/lens.

POINT LOBOS STATE NATURE RESERVE This area is just a few miles south of Carmel. It has a bunch of walking trails and many nice views. There is also a TON of poison oak and I got some on my arms and legs. It’s pretty annoying, but not nearly as itchy as poison ivy. I can't...

(Carmel, continued) There were really only clouds and a sunset one night. Another night that I felt like taking pictures, I walked along the beach to look for subjects. There were only clouds and a sunset one night. A different evening I felt like shooting, so I walked along the beach...

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA Carmel is a really fancy little town. I spent 5 or so days here. Parking in Carmel could seem tricky because in all the residential areas, there are signs saying you can’t park overnight unless you have some permit. But in the downtown area, there are no permits required, it’s...

CA - San Francisco to Big Sur I only spent a couple days in the San Francisco area. I had been driving a lot, and I had spent most of the last two months in cities. I wasn’t excited about hanging around another dense city. Especially one as dense as San Francisco. I drove across the Golden...

BIKE RIDE SURPRISE One morning, I was parked at one of the little turnouts/parking lots next to the road that overlook the coast. I had breakfast and was doing whatever, and I noticed a lot of people bicycling on the highway. So far the only cyclists I’d seen on the highway were bicycle tourers...

COASTAL PICTURES Crescent City:

AVENUE OF THE GIANTS This is a really cool stretch of 20 or 30 miles. The original highway 1 was rebuilt at some point. Avenue of the Giants is a stretch of the original Highway 1 that was kept and is still maintained (and is now highway 258). The new highway runs basically parallel to the old...

(Note - I often have slow internet. When I do, posting in this thread is difficult. I'm going to start breaking my posts up into multiple posts, in order to not have a crazy amount of pictures on one page) Northern California, Part 1 I covered this stretch in just a few days: I’d hurried...

A question - I've started uploading larger pictures because the size I was using would be pretty small for people with large monitors. For big monitor people - do these work better? (They show up in the post as if they are hyperlinks and when I click them it shows the full size version, but it...

DRIVING SOUTH THROUGH OREGON I stayed in Portland until the end of September, and it was colder than I liked. I’d planned to make my way slowly south through string of National Forests, and make a few stops in hot springs, Smith Rock, Painted Hills, Bend, Crater Lake, etc. But as I checked...

ahhh, yes, I was aware of that difference in the older vs. newer one but it didn't come to mind when I was writing my post