We drove south to McHugh Creek where the spring tends to come a little sooner than in Anchorage. It's good to just get out where there are just trees and mountains and water.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
This And That, Ups And Downs - San Francisco And Seattle
We're back on Bainbridge Island. San Francisco was great. We tried a new rental car option. Actually we've used BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and buses in past trips, but we were going to different places over the four days, so a car seemed to make sense. Kyte is a company that delivers the car to you. And they were cheaper. Everything worked well except two things.
- They aren't allowed to deliver to the airport so they deliver to Daly City BART. That's pretty close to the airport and sounded ok. But it turns out it costs $9 per person one way from SFO to Daly City BART. So we went to the information office in the airport to get senior BART passes. In the past a $9 senior BART pass would get us into town and back, plus a trip to see friends in Oakland. But they aren't selling them at the airport any more. So the two roundtrips added almost $40 to the bill.
- We were a bit earlier than our appointment and the pick up site is listed as 500 John Daly Blvd. Well, that includes the entire BART station and two parking lots. Finding out where we were supposed to be was hard and the driver was late.
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Friday, December 31, 2021
Sun And Rain In LA Keep Me Distracted
There's been a lot of rain here in LA. For LA anyway. It was one day rain, the next day sun, then rain. We just finished two days of steady rain, but today the sun's out. But with all this, trying to be on vacation yet get things done and gramping, I totally missed Wednesday's hearing. And while the Superior court has it live on video, they don't leave the recorded (was it recorded?) video up for people to see later. But they're still talking technical, procedural stuff. Though listening in would have given me some hints of things might go. Next meeting is next Wednesday. But meanwhile here's some LA.
Sunday was sunny and I went for a bike ride with B, an Alaskan friend who's moved down here to be near kids and grandkids. He took this picture of a house in Marina Del Rey. This is NOT a typical house.
Some gentlemen fishing at the boat docks in Marina del Rey.
Monday morning it was still sunny, but clouds were rolling in as we went to Will Rogers State Park for a hike back into my earlier life. This is where Will Rogers lived. His house is there and there's a polo field that's active on weekends. And also a trail that loops around the property.
One of the things I like about this park is that it's surrounded by chaparral covered hills. A smell that takes me back to childhood. I think it might be why I like David Hockney's swimming pool picture, which I once had to recreate digitally in a computer art class I took. It was painted at a house not far from here with hills like this in the background. I want you all to know I really liked this picture well before it sold for $100 million.
In the past when I've hiked this trail I've seen coveys of California quail. But not this time.
They had a COVID testing site in the parking lot.
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These were near where we parked the car and I thought they were pretty. Picture didn't turn out that well.
Today's sunny again, and so we have a bike ride scheduled. We got the brakes fixed on my granddaughter's bike and she wants to use it.
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Beautiful Day For Hike Along Eklutna Lake
Didn't get to the keyboard until about 5:30 pm today because we went to Eklutna Lake to take advantage of the beautiful day. Maybe low 70s, sunny with some decorative clouds. And it's a Tuesday so it shouldn't be crowded. And it wasn't. Although it's not far (maybe 20 miles away) we haven't been there since our kids were little. Just going to offer you some pictures.
Looking north. We started near the low point on the left.
People in the canoe are not us. They just paddled by while we were on the shore having lunch.