Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Today we arrived home in Niwot (near Boulder).  We drove all day from outside of Durango, CO.  We all got more and more excited as we neared familiar territory.

We’re taking a couple of week break from our adventure to connect with friends, recharge ourselves, and figure out what the rest of the trip will look [...]

Today we visited Point Lobos, “The greatest meeting of land and water in the world,” and it sure was in our estimation.  We loved the landscape of the rocky coves and windswept trees.  We spent a long time just exploring the amazing rock formations being washed (away, in geologic time) by the ocean.

Point Lobos was [...]

We drove from San Luis Obispo up Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway, to Pacific grove.  This could be a 3 hour drive, but it took us 9 hours because of all the fun stops we made.
Our first stop was in Cambria at Moonstone Beach, where we spent at least an hour combing the pebbly [...]

We’re still in San Luis Obispo.  On Friday we will head up to Monterey and spend a few days there.  Then we’ll come back south, passing through SLO and maybe Santa Barbara and LA on our way to Sedona, AZ.

Zippy had an exciting moment today when she heard, “Zippy!  I’m ready to be wiped” from her 3 year old companion.  It was Zippy’s first experience helping a child in that way.  Joseph is out of diapers, but still needs a little help now and then.  Zippy was the one he chose to get that [...]