A couple of weeks ago Gayle, Jane, and Ken drove down to California for a little get-away. Well, actually, Gayle came down to welcome her new grandson (Jaxon Van Noy) into her family. Since Kristen and Andrew live in Santa Barbara, I was able to benefit from their travels. Gayle stopped at our home briefly to drop Jane & Ken off and eat some dinner and then she was off to Santa Barbara. To add to the excitement, Cheryl came down a few days later to have fun with us and to also attend her 10 year class reunion. We were able to spend two days traveling up the Central Coast of California to see some of Alan and my favorite spots to visit. We saw and did too much to post in this one blog, so I will be doing them in segments. The first place we stopped at was at a place called Los Osos Oaks Reserve. This is a fun place to hike around because it is a grove of oak trees, many of which look kinda enchanted because of all the moss hanging from them. This photo shows the moss well.
Many of the oaks were big and fun to climb.
(Alan, Joan, and Cheryl)
Jane & Ken in front of a big oak near the entrance to the reserve
I found a big tree with a hollow trunk and Cheryl thought it would be fun
to get inside of it. I had my doubts about whether that was possible, but
Cheryl taught me that where there is a will there is a way.
This picture shows how high the hole was so you can
better understand why it was a challenge to get inside.
We had a lot of fun with this tree which reminded us of the
backside of the human body. Sorry, we just couldn't resist.
Ken was pretty adventurous. I think the little kid in him
came out because he liked climbing the trees. You can't tell
from this picture, but he is pretty high up in this tree.
Los Osos is not a huge tourist attraction. Most people probably don't even know it is there. Shhhhh, don't tell everyone about it, we liked having the whole place to ourselves (well, pretty much, anyway) This was a fun stop for us, except for our own little episode of "Lost", which I'm too embarrassed to talk about. If you want to know about it, ask Jane & Ken.
7 comments:
Wait a climb to get into that hole Cheryl! I must say that I prefer the middle behind compared to the two other ones, sorry...
Great pictures! Looks like fun. I like the bum tree.
looks like fun. Sometimes we have to give my dad his dinner outside because we can't get him to come down from the trees. hahaha. Just kidding.
What a good time we had! My favorite is still the "Bum" tree. Thanks for making our trip so much fun and for giving us great memories.
Seems like it would be a bummer to get lost there.
The bum tree is hilarious! But not as hilarious as the story I heard today from my mom about some of you getting lost in there!! I'm glad you made it out.
Looks like a fun place to visit. You've got an eye for a great picture!
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