To the Coast
Ok so where were we?
Bryce, wow that seems like so long ago at this point. So my last update was leaving Bryce Canyon and on to Parowan Utah which is about 100 miles north of Saint George. This was a place that we went in Geology Field studies and was one of the harder mapping areas that we had. My boss at the College of Charleston wanted me to stop by and get some shots of students and teachers working together in the field for some new promotional videos for the school.
So we arrive and see all our geology friends. The two professors are Dr Bob and Dr Doyle. Apparently that morning a local historian/archaeologist/falchoneer stopped by and gave everyone a lesson on the petroglyphs in Parowan Gap. Very nice, there are differing calenders like a owl over a chart for a lunar calender, solar calenders for planting crops etc. I'll post pics later.
That night we stayed at Yankee Meadows campground close to Brians Head ski resort in Parowan. It was really cool to see all our old friends and Chris Stubbs helped me do some basic turbo diagnostics to see if it was still functioning properly.
The next day we got some shots for Tim's promo vids and left south for Saint George. We ate at a Mexican Restaurant and then began going from place to place looking for oil. It was too hot for Ashley so I dropped her off at the grocery store as I went to several places lookign for oil. One Chinese place told me "no", which is a first for the trip. Another told em that I could take it but it wasn't their oil, which technically they are correct. Once the oil is placed in the bin it's the bin owners oil, so I guess I am stealing. I was as fast as I could be to finish collecting and got out of there. We repacked the car and took off for southern Nevada.
We traveled through Vegas, which I hate, and onto Barstow in southern California which we got our first hotel room. I changed out all of the fuel filters the next morning, and filled up with oil that we had gotten in Saint George. We left north and decided not to go through Death Valley because it was about 120 degrees and I didn't want to test the car in that environment. We went through Sequoia National Forest and then onto Sequoia National Park which is north of the forest. It was great that night because the campsite was full and there were some kids that stayed up most of the night playing music and lighting fire works.
That next morning we went through and saw General Sherman, which is the largest living thing on earth. Leaving the Park we saw a brown bear adn in our scramble to find the 4 cameras in the car, it ran off. It was awesome to see a bear in the semi-wild though.
That night we landed on the coast in New Brighton Beach just south of Santa Cruz, but their campsite was full. So we had to drive about 30 minutes to Henry Cowell State Park, which was an excellent place to stay, but it rained all night and the tent got wet.
We got up and drove through Santa Cruz. Ash wanted to go see the campus of University of California at Sant Cruz, as were were driving by a parking lot we saw a sign for "Biofuels Conference Parking". So we parked and went up to the "Farm". We meet so many cool people and they fed us breakfast and lunch. It was really rainy, but there was a car show with many people using veggie oil and many others with diesel vehicles using biodiesel. We fueled up there and then went to Berkeley and got oil at "Taiwan Restaurant". Now we are getting ready to leave Sacramento Ca.
Update soon hopefully.
Bryce, wow that seems like so long ago at this point. So my last update was leaving Bryce Canyon and on to Parowan Utah which is about 100 miles north of Saint George. This was a place that we went in Geology Field studies and was one of the harder mapping areas that we had. My boss at the College of Charleston wanted me to stop by and get some shots of students and teachers working together in the field for some new promotional videos for the school.
So we arrive and see all our geology friends. The two professors are Dr Bob and Dr Doyle. Apparently that morning a local historian/archaeologist/falchoneer stopped by and gave everyone a lesson on the petroglyphs in Parowan Gap. Very nice, there are differing calenders like a owl over a chart for a lunar calender, solar calenders for planting crops etc. I'll post pics later.
That night we stayed at Yankee Meadows campground close to Brians Head ski resort in Parowan. It was really cool to see all our old friends and Chris Stubbs helped me do some basic turbo diagnostics to see if it was still functioning properly.
The next day we got some shots for Tim's promo vids and left south for Saint George. We ate at a Mexican Restaurant and then began going from place to place looking for oil. It was too hot for Ashley so I dropped her off at the grocery store as I went to several places lookign for oil. One Chinese place told me "no", which is a first for the trip. Another told em that I could take it but it wasn't their oil, which technically they are correct. Once the oil is placed in the bin it's the bin owners oil, so I guess I am stealing. I was as fast as I could be to finish collecting and got out of there. We repacked the car and took off for southern Nevada.
We traveled through Vegas, which I hate, and onto Barstow in southern California which we got our first hotel room. I changed out all of the fuel filters the next morning, and filled up with oil that we had gotten in Saint George. We left north and decided not to go through Death Valley because it was about 120 degrees and I didn't want to test the car in that environment. We went through Sequoia National Forest and then onto Sequoia National Park which is north of the forest. It was great that night because the campsite was full and there were some kids that stayed up most of the night playing music and lighting fire works.
That next morning we went through and saw General Sherman, which is the largest living thing on earth. Leaving the Park we saw a brown bear adn in our scramble to find the 4 cameras in the car, it ran off. It was awesome to see a bear in the semi-wild though.
That night we landed on the coast in New Brighton Beach just south of Santa Cruz, but their campsite was full. So we had to drive about 30 minutes to Henry Cowell State Park, which was an excellent place to stay, but it rained all night and the tent got wet.
We got up and drove through Santa Cruz. Ash wanted to go see the campus of University of California at Sant Cruz, as were were driving by a parking lot we saw a sign for "Biofuels Conference Parking". So we parked and went up to the "Farm". We meet so many cool people and they fed us breakfast and lunch. It was really rainy, but there was a car show with many people using veggie oil and many others with diesel vehicles using biodiesel. We fueled up there and then went to Berkeley and got oil at "Taiwan Restaurant". Now we are getting ready to leave Sacramento Ca.
Update soon hopefully.
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