LA vacation

Vacation...rescued to LA.  Looking for a rental SUV to drive us back to San Diego.

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Friday in Lebec

3 hours after our trannie went out we are hanging out in the office of a towing company ... Waiting for Greg to arrive...

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Oh no

And the fun continues.  Just at the 99 and 5 our car breaks down.  AAA says a tow truck will be by in 2 hours. Highway patrol is offering to drive us to the next town. Road trips! It's always a bit of a crap shoot.

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Hokey Pokey

Seen today in Windsor

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West Dry Creek

Wine tour...

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Casino

Art teaching Bryce to play a card game called casino. We have been playing dice and card games every evening & morning.

Today we are heading over to Healdsburg for wine tasting.

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Goat Rock

A cool day today... we headed west to the coast for a change of scenery and we found Goat Rock state beach. Picnic lunch and a look at the harbor seals....

Fruitfilled walk

You cannot walk around the neighborhood for long before encountering various offerings of fruit - apple trees with fallen apples littered around the base, blackberry bushes sprawling over rustic fences, cherry trees, plumot trees, yellow plums... we went out for a walk this morning and came back with a bag full of blackberries. The boys crunching on a freshly picked apple as they walked along.

A slower pace

Welcome to Guerneville...a land of friendly faces and slower paces. Here are some pix of the house and neighborhood.

Exterior:



Interior





River view:

The Lennans have left San Francisco

We started the day riding the cable cars to end of line and then back up to Nob Hill. Cable car museum was closed so another cable car ride back to the wharf. The boys (esp. Connor) loved hanging off the sides as the car made it precarious journey up & down great inclines of the city.

A trip to Boudin for some freshly baked bread in the shape of alligator and turtle. Leaving the city by way of Lombard street & the Golden Gate bridge...Kyle says "I think I should have an x-ray so I can find out if I left my heart in San Francisco."

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Boudin bread tour (thursday)

Yum!

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Cable car naught

We bought a one day muni pass and took the #30 bus to the exploratorium. Despite my peaceful presence, I was hated by the bus driver. My first offense was called out when my size 10 feet where (not) in the way of a wheelchaired passenger attempting to exit. Imagine my horror when the feisty bus driver got out of her seat and said "mam,your feet are going to be in the way ... Stand up and move outta the way." A few stops later an apparently I am the one in the way again ..."mam you are going to hafta move...those seats (plural...mind you not just my seat) are reserved for the handicapped and elderly!" I get up and move to the back of the bus all the while thinking of the irony. And next stop was end of line. We arrive to the exploritorium which is actually set in a quite breathtaking place. Much better that the science museum...spent a few hours in there having a lot of fun.

The plan was to take the bus back to Van Ness and walk up Lombard street to Kyle's delight and my cardic exhaustion.  Then take the cable car to Nob Hill and walk back to the Cable Car Museum. But after having a few full cars pass us by, we walked down Lombard back to the hotel...and wouldn't you know it...it was happy hour. We talked to so folks in from Austria who were on there way to San Diego tomorrow. Then had a bakery tour at  Boudiin's followed by dinner. Back at the hotel now and feeling very tired.

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Best view of the city

What a great day today was!

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