HOLIDAY 2006 (CALIFORNIA)
This year I decided to go out to California to visit with a couple of very dear friends. I landed in LA and hired a car, this year it was a 4x4 because I wanted to explore the more inaccessible parts of the Joshua Tree National Park. I spent a couple of nights in the LAX Plaza, Culver City, just a few minutes drive from the Car Rental facility, in order to acclimatize and get used to being on the wrong side of the road, then over to Palm Springs for 3 nights, 4 nights in Vegas, Up the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains to Lone Pine, (Where most of the old westerns were filmed, Lake Mono, over the Tioga Pass to Yosemite, Santa Cruz, Monterey and then up to the Napa Valley to stay with Lowell & Janet Herrero, two very dear friends whom I met back in the 80's when I was driving tours on the Mainland.
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