Harvest Moon over Potrero Hill

Last pictures from SF for awhile.

Tomales to Ocean Beach

After oysters at the Marshall Store on Tomales Bay, drove home and watched the sun going down from Ocean Beach while listening to Sunset Rider.

CA Roadtrip: $750 swim

The Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle. Melody asked one of the guards if anyone ever falls in the pool, and he said that yes they do, and that when they do they have to call a park ranger who determines if the fall was intentional or not. If they determine that it is intentional, you get cited $750. Then he said that a fellow guard overheard a visitor saying that she'd pay a thousand dollars to swim in the pool, and the guard said that she could save herself $250 by just jumping in.

CA Roadtrip: Red Rock Canyon & Spaceship Spotting

Camping in Red Rock Canyon State Park. The park is near China Lake Naval Air Station and Mojave Air and Space Port, and when we were packing up our campsite I heard about 20 seconds of rumbling and looked up and saw the rocket trail from a trial flight of the Virgin Galactic spaceship.  Then 20 minutes later in a different part of the sky I saw a B-2 bomber being refueled by a KC-135!

CA Roadtrip: Devils Postpile

Devils Postpile National Monument, near Mammoth Lakes, CA. The hexagons are the tops of naturally occurring basalt columns. 

CA Roadtrip: Lone Pine Film History Museum

Dr. King Schultz's wagon from Django in the Lone Pine Film History Museum. 

CA Roadtrip: Sonora Pass

The sun turns the smoke from the Rim Fire red.