Wordless Wednesday

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

Travel Linkup-The Presidio

I am going to post to a linkup hosted by:

California Globetrotter

TravelNotesandBeyond

Toddlers on Tour

Two Traveling Texans

TravelLatte

(Please go check out their blogs and the other blogs that are linked up!)

I am also linking up with Veravise

 

Today I am going to shar our San Francisco stop in The Presidio.

 The Golden Gate Bridge is in the Presidio area, as well a national cemetery, the former military base and several other things.

Our main stops were for the Walt Disney Family Museum and to walk around the base.

 

 

The Mr. playing with an Animatronic parrot.

We walked around the former Presidio Officers' Club. There is a small history museum inside and large "reading rooms".

 

We made a quick stop by the LucasFilm offices. There is A LOT of Star Wars related items in the lobby, it's worth a stop!

52 Frames Photo Challenge

I decided to commit to a photo challenge this year. I joined 52 Frames with a weekly theme challenge. My hope is it will encourage me to get my camera out more and improve my skills.

Week 1: Self Portrait

This was a REALLY hard one for me! I am usually the one behind the camera and I know I am overly critical of myself. BUT, this was the one I submitted.

 Week 2: Blue

One Christmas bulb caught my eye near our local courthouse.

I will post more here & there.

Muir Woods & Beach

I am going to try something "new" for a weekly post. I will be linking up with The Weekly Postcard, hosted by:

California Globetrotter

TravelNotesandBeyond

Toddlers on Tour

Two Traveling Texans

TravelLatte

(Please go check out their blogs and the other blogs that are linked up!)

I am also linking up with Veravise

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Today, I am going to cover a couple of sites we visited on our trip to San Francisco this past November.

We had visited Muir Woods on our previous trip to the San Fran area. It was a VERY brief stop last time. This time, we had an afternoon to gawk, relax and walk through these spectacular trees.

It is about 12 miles north of San Francisco, off the 101. Yes, if you are driving from San Francisco, you will drive over the Golden Gate Bridge to get there. (Insert oooo and ahhhh here)

The road into the park. It is FULL of turns and twists. 

Our first look at the redwoods.

Welcome!

The entrance fee is $10/person. In our opinion, entrance fees are worth the dollars to take in wherever you are and to support the National Park Service.

Some of the beautiful nature:

Right after I took this photo (while we were waiting for the Ranger Talk [by the way, stop and listen to these if you have a chance, they are very interesting]), we heard a HUGE crash! A tree had fallen somewhere about 1/2 mile away but it had sounded so close. It was pretty cool to be able to have heard that. 

We spent a couple of hours hanging out among the trees.

We decided since it was still light out, we would drive down to the beach (which is part of the National Park Service also). It was a short walk from the parking lot to the beach. It was SO beautiful! The beach is set up for bonfires in a few different spots.

Thank you for a fabulous afternoon, Muir Woods and Beach!

***Please note: starting with visits on January 16, 2018, you must make a parking reservation to visit Muir Woods. You will not be able to park out there without one. There is also a shuttle that can be taken to the park, but again - make your reservation ahead of time!

2017 was pretty good

2017 was a pretty good year at our house.

In January, a certain someone hit a milestone birthday (it wasn't me...) that begins with a 5 and ends with a 0.

In February, another someone hit a milestone birthday....

In March, my Mr. and I went to New York to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame

April brought regular season baseball. Mr. got me a ticket to Opening Night at Wrigley to celebrate the banner raising of the World Series Champions flag.  Wet and awesome night!

In May, we went to St. Louis to watch the Cubs get beat by the Cardinals.

In June, Mr. and Young Miss went to Washington DC for a week. It was hotter than blazes (100+ everyday) but they saw quite a bit.

In July, Mr. & I went to see Sara Evans and take in a South Bend Cubs game

August 22, was a the complete solar eclipse. Mr. & Young Mr. traveled to the path of totality and enjoyed it.

August & September, brought a car repair that took the mechanics almost 2 months to figure out and fix. (I'm still pretty angry about it and haven't been able to post the whole tale here yet)

We visited Disney in October with some friends. It was a lot of fun!

November was our 20th anniversary and we took a few days to visit San Francisco

We are looking forward to our 2018 adventures.

I hope your 2017 was wonderful and wish you all a fantastic 2018!