Vacation planning!
So, yesterday, amid tidying the house for Mom to come over for dinner, and getting a haircut, My Sweetie and I made great progress on the vacation planning front. We've booked our hotel for Azkatraz, it's literally next door to the conference hotel, and cheaper both in the room rates and the parking (go Super 8 with CAA discount!)
We also visited the AMA and picked up road maps, camp guides and tour books for Alberta, BC, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana. We've decided that we're definitely visiting Redwoods National Park, because it will contribute to our life goal of visiting as many of the UNESCO World Heritage Nature Sanctuaries as humanly possible. We've already made a decent start, having visited Waterton/Glacier, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Jasper/Banff, Yellowstone, and The Grand Canyon.
We've also been to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (which is, by far, the best historic site name ever!), Stonehenge/Avebury, the Tower of London, and the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, but those are all cultural sites, and therefore belong to a different list. If we were going to include all of the cultural sites as well as the nature sanctuaries, not only would it more than double our list, but it would also require a lot of travel through war-torn countries in the Middle East. Incidently I've also visited several cultural in France, and My Sweetie has been to Chichen-Itza, but those don't count at all, because we weren't both there.
Anyway, we plan to start by heading West to Vancouver, then South via Seattle, and along the coast until we have to head inland to get to Yosemite. Oh, and it occurred to us yesterday, while we were talking over plans with my Mom, that if we're coming to San Francisco from Yosemite, we pretty much have to go through Oakland, which will give us the opportunity to make a return visit to Endgame, which is a simply fantastic gaming store.
Other than in San Francisco itself, we intend to be camping the whole way. We're even bringing both tents, so when we're only going to be somewhere for one night, we'll use the small one, and when we're staying for a few days, we can use the big one.
We also visited the AMA and picked up road maps, camp guides and tour books for Alberta, BC, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana. We've decided that we're definitely visiting Redwoods National Park, because it will contribute to our life goal of visiting as many of the UNESCO World Heritage Nature Sanctuaries as humanly possible. We've already made a decent start, having visited Waterton/Glacier, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Jasper/Banff, Yellowstone, and The Grand Canyon.
We've also been to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (which is, by far, the best historic site name ever!), Stonehenge/Avebury, the Tower of London, and the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, but those are all cultural sites, and therefore belong to a different list. If we were going to include all of the cultural sites as well as the nature sanctuaries, not only would it more than double our list, but it would also require a lot of travel through war-torn countries in the Middle East. Incidently I've also visited several cultural in France, and My Sweetie has been to Chichen-Itza, but those don't count at all, because we weren't both there.
Anyway, we plan to start by heading West to Vancouver, then South via Seattle, and along the coast until we have to head inland to get to Yosemite. Oh, and it occurred to us yesterday, while we were talking over plans with my Mom, that if we're coming to San Francisco from Yosemite, we pretty much have to go through Oakland, which will give us the opportunity to make a return visit to Endgame, which is a simply fantastic gaming store.
Other than in San Francisco itself, we intend to be camping the whole way. We're even bringing both tents, so when we're only going to be somewhere for one night, we'll use the small one, and when we're staying for a few days, we can use the big one.