Our California trip

[Greybeard]

Some years ago, I won an award for some software that I wrote in my own time that was adopted by my employer. With the money, my wife and I chose to tour California for a month. Here are the better photos that we took. We loved California. We hired a car for a month. I was hoping for a classic large gas guzzler but we were given a Ford Focus, just like the ones in the UK.

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[bsa-bill]

We did a fortnight tour there in 2000, your photos bringing back memories.
and we also had a Focus for seven years, most reliable and cheapest car to run we've ever had (discounting fuel consumption) 7 years, one set front brake linings and one set of wiper blades - that was it

[RichardL]

Neil,

Thanks for adding this tour to my Sunday-morning-sitaround. I was born in the San Fernando Valley and spent my first 45 years there, neverthess, on your trip you managed to get to some iconic places I never did, Yosemite, for example. Now I have to think of Yosemite (and getting back to Big Sur) as bucket list items. Another thing your photos did is make me ask myself, "What was I thinking when I decided to move to Illinois?"

Among other places, glad to see you got to the Getty Museum. It's a very special place. Given that you drove from there to Wanrner Bros. Studios, you drove within one minute of my childhood home off of Coldwater Canyon and about a minute from my last Valley home in Burbank near the studios.

Richard L.

[Greybeard]

I'm super happy you guys enjoyed my photos.

Our approach to Yosemite was through a tunnel. As we exited into daylight, the view into Yosemite  valley was the most amazingly beautiful landscape I've ever seen; Bridal Veil Falls on the right and El Capitan massively rising up on the left, framing the valley. It was almost Disney-like in its beauty! I took a picture but nothing beats being there.
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[muskrat]

Great shots GB. Must've been a while ago, you still had colour in your hair. LOL.
Cheers

[berger]

greybeard - very good, I thought it was dennis hopper looking for yogi bear

[BigJim]

Love the shots of the botanical gardens and trams of SF. Would go there just to spend some time with those.