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This is the line from the doorway that enters the room with the rental car...(more)
I spent a about an hour and a quarter waiting in line to get my car at Budget at the San Francisco airport. It was crazy. The line went out of the room, out the door, to the garage and then turned back. The group around me had a good sense of humor which helped. When I got to the front of the line, I asked if there was something unusual going on. The attendant said no and that it's not unusual for the wait to be two hours! that
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This is the line from the doorway that enters the room with the rental car...(more)
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This is a blurry picture I took using the live view mode. The sign says "It all...(more)
I drove from SFO to Santa Cruz via Highway 1. It's a scenic road that hugs the coast. There are various pull-offs as well as a few state beaches and parks. I stopped a few times along the way.
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A family fishes and hangs out near the beach. One person is climbing the rocks...(more)
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A view from on top of the rocks. The fishing pole and a bit of a blanket from...(more)
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The making of a picture. Later, I offered to take a picture of the two of them...(more)
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Later on, I stopped at (but did not go in to) a lighthouse just off of Hightway...(more)
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A woman was sitting on a bench looking out into the foggy haze that was the...(more)
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Panoramic view looking west to Santa Cruz and the ocean from a hillside...(more)
I had lunch on Friday at the Santa Cruz wharf. It's the size of a city street, with stores and restaurants on it. It feels like you're on land and not on a big, long, wide dock. Also, there are seals around and under it.
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Looking out towards the end of the wharf. The clouds in the distance might be...(more)
I got a quick tour of the area from a co-worker who lives there.
Wilder Ranch is not, in fact, measurably more wild than some of the other ranches in the area, but rather the land was originally purchased by Deloss D. Wilder (who may very well have been wilder than other ranchers for all I know), in 1871, hence the name. California turned it into a state park in 1974. All this I got from the photo I took of the information board and map. I walked on the Old Cove Landing Trial to the bluffs, but only walked for maybe 20 minutes before turning back, since I needed to get dinner at a reasonable time and get to the SFO airport in a reasonable time.
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And another shot, looking the other direction, with a lower point of view,...(more)
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A panorama of the Wilder Ranch State Park. The trail I was on is at the far...(more)
On the way to the airport, I drove back along
Highway 1. This time it was a bit foggier.
Here's are two
animated GIFs of waves.
I got to the airport around 9:30 or so at night. I had a midngiht (12:30 actually) flight back home.
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The view of the SFO airport and its ground lights from the airtrain that goes...(more)
