tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76610123320926796542024-03-05T08:00:18.730-08:00Bob's Grand AdventuresAn adventure journal to keep family and friends posted with Bob's Adventure activities.Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-53700394830063913542016-12-21T14:45:00.000-08:002016-12-22T07:24:27.321-08:00HIGHLIGHTS OF 2016 The last half of this year has been full of adventures. One of the places of interest was Las Vegas.<br />
As you can tell below that I spent some time on the Eiffel Tower observation platform. These are but a sampling of the 200 plus photos taken at various times of the late afternoon and evening.<br />
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A new attraction that opened in the later part of 2015 is a tour of Wayne Newton's private 52-acre ranch. The tour lasted about three and a half hours. I could take all the pictures that I wanted so I came away with over 400. I predict that tour will become the most popular tour in Las Vegas.<br />
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We visited his 21 car garage where he keeps 13 cars, 7 of which are Rolls Royce.</div>
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Wayne has a love affair with Arabian horses. He had 67 Arabians in his two barns at the time of my tour. Over the years, he has personally fould over 1,000. He still does that today. He has a house on the grounds where he stays just for that</div>
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When it is hot out, the horses get to go swimming</div>
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Located near the barns is a show arena where tour guests can observe horses responding to their trainers. No whips ever are used, just the location of the plastic bag that is attached to the end of the stick. </div>
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Next, we go inside Wayne's rather nice home</div>
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While staying in the Yuma, AZ area, I visited the Castle Dome Mining District. This is about 9 miles off the paved road, but well worth a visit.</div>
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The renowned sculpture David Manual and his wife Lee, own the resort and his studio and foundry are located there. He did the by-centennial statue for the Oregon Trail Ass. This and the one in Portland, OR are the only ones of this size.<br />
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An Osprey nest is at the RV Park</div>
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Our group traveled to the town of Joseph and some of us rode these Rail Riders 6 miles to the next town It was hard peddling up hill all the way back</div>
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Next day we road the Beach Train (standard gauge) from this location to the Boardwalk on Santa Cruz beach.</div>
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In 1915 the city of San Francisco held a year-long celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.</div>
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A 1/3 scale railroad was built on a mile of 19-inch gauge track to transport fair goers around on the grounds. </div>
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-56150682441735786622016-06-14T12:31:00.000-07:002016-06-14T12:31:02.221-07:00GRATUATION TIMEOldest Grandson, Andrew, graduates from high school. Next step, college!<br />
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-34162543492768256112015-12-21T13:59:00.000-08:002015-12-21T13:59:13.536-08:00SUMMER HIGHLIGHTSHere it is almost Christmas and I finally get around to doing a post about last summer. It is going to be a LONG Post. This is to mention but just a few of so many. I spent last summer (2014) in San Diego and put together 21 slide productions and then wondered what was left to do for when I came back for the summer of 2015? Well, let me tell you I did 25 productions this summer and there are still more to do for when I go back for the summer of 2017.<br />
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To start with, I made friends with some of the members of the San Diego Garden Railroad Society. I was invited to attend their monthly open house gatherings at various members layouts. Each one had a different theme. One layout started in the garage and went clear around the outside of the house. When their official photographer went on vacation, they printed some of my photos in their News Letter.<br />
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This is "my plane"! For 17 years of my 32-year working career, I functional tested, trouble shot and repaired every Air Inlet System computer for every F14 plane that Grumman Aircraft built for the US Navy. There were two computers for every 36 million dollar plane. The computer controlled each of the three ramps to restrict the air flow into the engine. The F14 could go 2.5 times the speed of sound (Mach 2.5), but the air flow going into the engine had to be less than Mach 1 or you had a flame-out. The computer considered four parameters (true air speed, altitude, temperature and the angle of attack of the plane) then calculated the ideal position for each ramp and sent a signal to the actuator for that ramp to move to that position. This would enable the proper amount of air flow into the engine. CLICK ON DIAGRAM BELOW <br />
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<strong>When they deliver a plane to a museum, they don't just turn off the key. They let the engine idle until it sputters and gasps for fuel . . . . and then</strong><strong> dies. </strong></div>
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When I last posted I told you that I would tell about my experience with a 50-cal. machine gun at the Marine Base in Twenty Nine Palms. The group that I was with, the Golden Spike chapter of Family Motor Coach Ass. were on a tour of the Marine Base. One of the stops on the tour was the multi million dollar simulator center where they train Marines tactics using Hummers. There are five rooms. Each has a real Humvee in the center with a 50-cal. machine gun mounted on top. Around the edge of the room is are 360 degrees of wall size video monitors. All the controls of the Humvee along with radio communications, speed and direction are tied into a central computer. On the screens can be seen the other Hummers that are being used in a given exercise.<br />
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I looked down into the front passenger's seat where our "commander" would sit.<br />
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We did not get through the village alive. All three Hummers and their ground support were lost. But we had to congratulate ourselves. <br />
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You can see all three of us burning on the road in the above picture. However, we did blow up two of the bad guy's trucks before we arrived in the village.<br />
Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-80965686194923404022015-04-26T13:37:00.000-07:002015-04-26T13:37:01.255-07:00UNCLE SAM GOT ME. . . . AGAINYou may have wondered what happened to old Bob anyway. Well, there are several reasons why you have not heard from me lately. One is that I have NOT had any dependable Internet connection sense I left Apple Valley in the first part of January. The second reason is that I went back into the Marine Corps.<br />
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Our first exercise was to learn how to exit an armored personnel carrier when it has tipped over and the doors are all jammed. We loaded into these simulators and buckled up.<br />
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We were being monitored by a series of cameras that were inside the vehicle. After we pondered those questions for a bit and nobody unbuckled themselves and landed on the person(s) seated below them, they rotated us back to the upright position and let us out. We were told that Marines go through this same exercise only they do get out and are wearing a combat pack while doing it.<br />
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December usually brings around cold weather and this year there was snow on the mountains that I could see through my coach window.<br />
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On frosty mornings, after the winds have blown during the night, we have found our vehicles decorated with very fancy designs.<br />
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-45393721687334364242014-11-28T10:01:00.002-08:002014-11-29T10:32:27.804-08:00MOUNTAIN MAGIC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The first day of November found me enjoying the scenery along the stretch of I-5 between the town of Weed and Lake Shasta. My daughter, son-in-law and I were returning to Apple Valley from Salem Oregon, where we had spent several days visiting with my son and his family. While we were there, we did "Christmas in October". It was cold enough to feel like Christmas. The views of Mount Shasta were spectacular and it was already is getting its winter coat of snow.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">All along roadway we could see that Fall was in full bloom. Some of the clouds were hanging low to make it even more picturesque. </span></div>
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Even the trees at the Rest Stops were wearing their Fall Colors for our enjoyment.</div>
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The water level in Lake Shasta VERY low, but that makes lots of storage space for the winter rains the we ALL are anticipating.<br />
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-87529750567608489572014-10-08T13:25:00.001-07:002014-10-08T13:36:18.161-07:00SAN DIEGO SUMMER REVIEWWhat a summer this has been! Staying at Santee Lakes Campground for five months has been a very pleasant experience to say the least. Not only did I make new friends with those in the campground, but I spent some time with friends from the past.<br />
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Various adventures and events were happening one after another and much time putting together slide presentations (22 total) along with slow Internet connections that I did not do much posting to this blog. So this post will be an attempt to catch up with stuff that I did not post about this past summer.<br />
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<b>CHICANO PARK</b><br />
Located under the approach bridge to the Coronado Bridge in San Diego in Barrio Logan there is a collection of Chicano art that was painted on the many support pillars for the bridge. The locals worked hard to get a park that had been promised them for years. When it was finally built, the same locals pained around 100 beautiful and meaningful murals for all to see.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><i>IT WAS A GREAT SUMMER</i></b></span></h2>
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-18820599065554386192014-07-27T13:52:00.001-07:002014-07-29T07:47:27.067-07:00COME FLY WITH METhere are MANY things to do in the San Diego area and one activity that I have on my bucket list is to visit the Torry Pines Glider Port. Many years ago, they launched gliders or sail plains from this location, but today they only launch and retrieve hang gliders and paragliders. <br />
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On a day with westerly winds of around 10 mph, I drove over to check out the doings. I just stood around and watched tandem paragliders take off from the cliff, sail around for a while and then gently settle back to earth.<br />
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After a half an hour of watching, I decided that I wanted to fly too. After all, what could go wrong? So after 12 pages of paperwork, I was a certified member of the United States Hang Gliding & Paragliding Assn. I was what they called a Student Pilot.<br />
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Onto the field I went and met my pilot. There on the ground was what I was putting my faith in to lift us two guys into the air and fly around.<br />
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He instructed me as to how this tandem flying worked. The trickiest part is getting the parasail up in the air with us both harnessed together without putting us both on the ground. Once we had the dance routine down and the sail up we both walked off the cliff and were airborne. (see below)<br />
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It was nice to look UP and see this canopy overhead.<br />
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We flew around the area for a few minutes and then we headed up the coast a ways to Torry Pines Golf Course.<br />
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I checked out the beach as we headed back south and passed the Glider Port.<br />
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Along the way we glided over a High Rent district.<br />
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After turning back we spotted this little place.<br />
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We had spent 25 or so minutes gliding up and down the coastal cliffs at Torry Pines. Now it was time to come back to Earth.<br />
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Above was what we saw one morning during the height of the wild fire outbreak here in San Diego County in May. At one point in time there were eleven (11) fires going at the same time. I think a total of over 30,000 acres were burned.<br />
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So you can imagine our concern when we saw this column of smoke just a few hundred yards from out rigs. There was a steady stream of fire engines responding past the campground.<br />
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There must have been a dozen or more engines on this fire along with water tenders. One of those tenders pulled in the campground to refill.</div>
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When two helicopters showed up on the fire, we campers started thinking about the possibility that we would need to evacuate. Many started packing for the move.</div>
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All this activity continued for a little over an hour and a half before they had the fire check. There were fire crews on scene for three or four hours before the fire was really out. According to reports, a total of about 30 acres burned. Several houses were threatened but no damage. We did not evacuate.</div>
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-48333822336950042782014-05-15T15:24:00.000-07:002014-05-15T15:24:02.006-07:00THE FLOWER FIELDS OF CARLSBAD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
My first adventure after setting up camp in San Diego for the summer was to visit the ranunculus flower fields located in Carlsbad just north of San Diego. They have 50 acres of blooming flowers to walk among and smell. Here are just a few of the images that I took that day:</div>
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-3477899679516405472014-04-26T13:13:00.000-07:002014-04-26T13:13:13.086-07:00LAS VEGAS HIGH ROLLERThe latest major attraction to be enjoyed on the Las Vegas strip is the <em><strong><span style="color: red;">High Roller</span></strong></em> ! This is the world's largest observation wheel. The views from the top of the wheel are at 550 ft. above the street. The location of the wheel is at the east end of a quarter-mile long pedestrian area called the LINQ. This is located between Harrahs Casino and the Flamingo Casino on the east side of Las Vegas Blvd. The LINQ is also all new with shops, pubs, bowling alley, etc. Even without the wheel, the LINQ is worth the short walk off of Las Vegas Blvd. I happened to be taking images of the new area on the first day of operation for the public to ride.<br />
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There are 28 of these Cabins on the wheel that hold a maximum of 40 people each. That means that over 1,100 can ride the wheel at the same time. The ride duration is one (1) revolution and that takes 30 minutes. It has the capability to load and unload passengers without stopping the wheel. It moves so smoothly that there is no sensation of movement. There are a few bench seats in each Cabin, but you have a 360 degree view from the Cabin so most people walk about getting great views of the Strip and the southern part of Las Vegas.<br />
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Just after sundown, I came back for more evening and night photos.<br />
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I had not initially intended to ride the wheel at that time, but how many times does a person have the opportunity to ride an attraction on the very First Day Of Operation? So I obtained a ticket and walked right on for a New Way To See Las Vegas. In order to give you a taste of you see when you ride, I am including the following photos:<br />
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Here are some views from the top of the wheel.<br />
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This platform is some 30 feet above the street.<br />
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Next time you are in Las Vegas check out the <em><strong><span style="color: red;">High Roller.</span></strong></em><br />
Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-5098548870608617512014-04-15T10:30:00.000-07:002014-04-17T08:24:02.208-07:00WHERE HAS BOB BEEN FOR THE LAST 3 MONTHSI have NOT had a reliable internet connection since I left Apple Valley on the 5th of January so no posts on this blog. Today, as I am camped in Las Vegas, I thought I had a good hot spot so I could post before it dries up, but I am unable to upload any pictures. So I will give you a review of my activities over the past several months.<br />
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First stop was a week with the Golden Spike chapter of Family Motor Coach Ass. rally in Indio, CA. where the theme was Dogpatch USA. Then, it was on to Blythe for a week at their annual Bluegrass Festival. A short 25-mile travel to Quartzsite found me enjoying a week with good friends and great jeep riding adventures.<br />
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I spent the entire month of February enjoying the many activities found in Lake Havasu City. Among my favorites was a tour boat ride through the Topock Gorge on the Colorado River almost to Needles and back. At the end of February, I moved the coach one block to the Arizona State Park next to the London Bridge and spent an interesting week at the Bluegrass On The Beach festival.<br />
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After the festival, I spent the next week in Laughlin at the Riverside RV Park. Always have great photo opts there. Next stop... Death Valley. I've been going there for a week in March for the past 30 years. This year, as well as last, my life was blessed with the presents of my daughter and son-in-law. They were staying in the campsite next to mine. As many times as I have been there, I still find new places to visit. This year we visited the Furnace Creek Fire Department in Death Valley National Park. They also have an ambulance and I wonder what a person would be thinking if they were to find themselves being put in this ambulance after an accident and seeing "Death Valley Ambulance" written on the side? Another place that I had visited for the first time was the Furnace Creek Inn. I found out that they have a park Ranger tour so we took that informative tourl.<br />
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After Death Valley, I spent 3 days in Pahrump, NV at the Lakeside RV Park located about 3 miles south of town. Gave me a chance to rest up from the activities of the past week. Then it was on to Las Vegas for a month. Since I don gamble, drink or chase women, people ask me what I find to do in Vegas for a whole month. Not A Problem! When I get back to Apple Valley next week, I'll try and post some images of what I found to do in Vegas. Let me put it this way. My camera has been busy! I have created five (5)<em> <strong>major production</strong></em> slide shows in the past three weeks while here in Vegas.<br />
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One thing that has kept me occupied over the past several months is overhauling all of the slide shows that were created in 2013 (about 130 of them). My computer became upset with me for putting all my picture folders in one folder called "2013" back in January. It scrambled the pictures in all of those folders so I had to go back and recreate those presentations. I just finished that task a couple of days ago.<br />
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So NOW you have an idea of what I have been up to and hope to have pictures posted in a 2 or 3 weeks.<span id="goog_429911021"><br /></span><br />
<br />Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-21444616535174630172013-12-31T12:52:00.000-08:002013-12-31T13:13:01.791-08:00DAY WITH THE CREW AT A FIRE STATIONI have spent the last couple of months with my coach parked at my daughter and son-in-law's place in Apple Valley, CA. I was invited by my son-in-law, who is a Captain with the Apple Valley Fire Protection District, to do a "ride-along" with him and his crew that consisted of an Engineer and two Paramedic/Firefighters. I, of course, could not turn down that kind of invitation, so on the morning of my visit, I took my camera and showed up at the station at the beginning of the duty shift.<br />
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The day was two days after Christmas and their decorations were still on display.<br />
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One of the first things they do at the start of a shift is do a good work out in the exercise room.<br />
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Not long after their workout, Dispatch toned us for the first of three medical assistance calls that morning. In the engine we quickly climbed and we rolled out.<br />
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By the time we had returned from the third call, it was lunch time and they were watching something on interest on TV news as they quickly ate.<br />
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In less than ten minutes after we arrived, the flames were put out. There was not much left of the car or the Class C motorhome.<br />
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This brought to a close my interesting day with the VERY professional crew of Medic Engine 331. Last year, the three active Apple Valley Fire Protection District stations responded to a little over 10,500 calls. In the first part of this month, Engine 331 responded to three (3) major house fires. In one of those house fires, they found a dead body after the fire was out. An investigation showed that the person did not die as a result of the fire. You just never know what awaits firefighters when that alarm goes off in the station.Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-46822769918477450412013-12-17T12:19:00.000-08:002013-12-18T08:47:51.112-08:00RIO GRANDE SCENIC RAILROAD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I met up with a small group of fellow Golden Spike members in Alamosa, Colorado, we enjoyed riding on three railroads in five days. One of those railroads was the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad. We left the Alamosa station on a clear sunny day and headed over La Veta Pass to the small town of La Veta.<br />
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This was a short train of only three cars, but very interesting cars they were. The last car is a complete restored lounge/observation car from the train City Of New Orleans.</div>
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We had full access to the train, but the car we spent most of our time in was the center car. This was a car built in 1952 for the Santa Fe Railroad as a dome/diner car. The dome went the full length of the top deck and the entire lower portion was the kitchen and dinning area.</div>
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The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad is not only a tourist railroad, but also an active freight railroad. There is a large agriculture industry in the Alamosa valley as well as a few industrial sites. They run freight at night and passenger traffic during the day. The freight cars go down to the main line of the BNSF Railroad to be taken to their destination. They also do a good business of buying obsolete passenger equipment and restoring them to "like new" condition and sell them to individuals and other tourist railroads. While the rest of our group were having a grand time in the dome car, I went back to the check out the City of New Orleans car. I had the whole car to myself. It was like brand new! The center portion of the car was a bar and had a short menu of food, but the rest of the car was set up with a few tables and many comfortable chairs.</div>
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It was strange riding in a beautiful rail car with nobody else in it. It rode so quit and smooth that it gave the impression that the car was stationary and the scenery was moving by the windows. I took many photos through the center window at the back end of the car.<br />
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We kept gaining altitude until we reached around 9,000 feet. It was here that we were all served a delicious meal of baked salmon from the kitchen down below.</div>
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The train stopped to do a "run-by". We all got off the train and it backed up about half a mile and then came back up the hill at full speed, making with the smoke, and rolled by us as we took pictures.</div>
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On my way from Oregon to Colorado this fall, I just happened to be in Reno on the weekend of their Balloon Festival. I arrived at the Balloon Park around 4:30 am to check out the festivities. Just after sunrise magic happened. The sky was filled with 100 of the most colorful balloons that I have ever seen.</div>
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There were about a dozen specialty balloons. People were able to walk around and watch them inflate these gigantic devices. There were many shapes and one balloon took up a couple and a minister and were married while floating above the park.<br />
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If you are ever in Reno around Labor Day, check out the Great Balloon Race</div>
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While in Eugene, Oregon, I visited a facility that cared for injured or sick raptors. They had on display some 30 birds.</div>
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The aviaries were large and although outside and under thick canopy of trees which cut off most of the sunlight, I was able to get some nice images. This was a test of what I could do and not do with my camera.</div>
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They were showing off one of several varieties of falcons that were there.<br />
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According to their web site, several varieties of owls also call this place home.<br />
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Below is a White-tailed Kite<br />
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Three of our National Birds were located at their facility.<br />
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<br />Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-58121993544100258742013-08-25T21:12:00.000-07:002013-08-25T21:12:49.240-07:00Golden Spike Rally at Garibaldi, OregonA group from our Golden Spike train fan club met in Garibaldi, OR to take in the sights of the Oregon Coast in that area. One of the places we attended was the Tillamook Air Museum.<br />
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They claim this is the world's largest wooden building.</div>
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I just HAD to CHECKOUT the F14 that was on display. This is one of the few F14s that I have seen that still has the engines and at least one of the Air Inlet baffles in the intake duct. They say this one can still fly.</div>
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The doors are 130 feet high and the building is 1000 feet long. You can fit 9 football fields inside.<br />
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We camped at the Old Mill RV Park in the heart of beautiful down-town Garibaldi.<br />
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The sunsets were beautiful even though there was fog rolling in.<br />
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While waiting for the fog to lift, I took the lighthouse tour. The lighthouse had reopened after a two-year, 1.6 million dollar makeover on June 8th of this year. <br />
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I climbed the stairs to the ever rotating Fresnel lens with its powerful 1000 watt lamp.<br />
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After the tour, I spent some time watching the Common Muers and Cormorants that were nesting out on the adjacent rocks.. <br />
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Every ten seconds the lens will rotate from one target on the lens to the next.<br />
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Watching the waves crashing against the rocks is always interesting.<br />
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Even with all fog it was a very interesting day at the Heceta Head Lighthouse.<br />
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-62558326099885828672013-07-28T10:28:00.000-07:002013-07-28T10:28:30.496-07:00NEW CAMERANot long after arriving in Salem, OR, I purchased a new Nikon D7000 DSL camera with an 18 to 200 mm zoom lens. During the past four and a half years, I have taken almost 45,000 photos with my small Cannon <em>PowerShot SX110 IS</em> camera. It has served me well, but I felt the need for better lenses and sharper images. Made a good deal on the camera, not to mention no sales tax here in Oregon.<br />
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The following pictures were taken here in Hee Hee Illahee RV park where I am staying for several months this summer. I took a few test photos with the Nikon to see what it could do right here around the rig.<br />
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Even at dusk and at night I was amazed!<br />
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My neighbor's dog however, was not interested at all in the camera.<br />
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-16823669075754147972013-07-19T11:56:00.000-07:002013-07-19T11:57:06.967-07:00LAS VEGAS TO SACRAMENTO Part 2After leaving Goldfield and spending the night in Tonopah, I continued my journey north on US95. I was amazed at the bareness, but yet in its own way, very beautiful landscape. The first city that I came upon was Hawthorne. This town supports the military base located here at the southern end of Walker Lake.<br />
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Upon arrival in Fallon, NV, I headed west on I-80. A few miles west of Reno I stopped for the night at the Gold Ranch RV Resort. This was about two miles from the California border.<br />
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Text morning, I continued over Donner Pass to Sacramento. <br />
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Along the way a caught a glimpse of Donner Lake.<br />
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On the mountain just south of I-80 one can see the show sheds for the Union Pacific Railroad.<br />
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From here, it was all down hill all the way to Sacramento. I spent one week camped at the California Expo Fairgrounds. I visited the Leland Stanford Mansion and the Sacramento Old Town including the Underground Tour.<br />
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-53079314461820676152013-06-14T12:55:00.001-07:002013-06-14T12:55:44.653-07:00LAS VEGAS TO SACRAMENTOI left WHATEVER HAPPENED IN VAGAS IN VEGAS when I left that town. I took US95 north through Beatty. There is not a whole lot of anything, except open country, until you get to the town of Goldfield.<br />
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Back in the early part of the last century, this placed was a booming town.</div>
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The main activity in Goldfield was mining. There is plenty of evidence of that by the numerous mine tailings left behind.<br />
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In 1905 the wooden hotel in town burned to the ground. In 1908 the brick Goldfield Hotel opened. It featured the finest food that was prepared by European chefs. It had one of the first electric elevators west of the Mississippi River. The 110 guest rooms are now all deserted, except room 220, where they say a ghost lives.<br />
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Goldfield was also the location of the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad freight depot and repair yard.<br />
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I talked with "Horny Mike" about his bus. You can see where he gets his name.<br />
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Their "Bone Yard" where they keep spare parts and future projects.<br />
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-3578946614986597972013-05-15T07:22:00.000-07:002013-05-18T07:05:42.434-07:00Bellagio Hotel/CasinoI stayed at Arizona Charlie's in Las Vegas, NV for a month and had several adventures. My favorite place to visit on the Las Vegas Strip is the Bellagio. I always take my camera with me in case I see a good photo op.<br />
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Bobcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16547875135954649142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7661012332092679654.post-69140687532553438302013-04-10T16:39:00.000-07:002013-04-10T16:39:35.443-07:00CANYON LAKEOne of the many things I did while in Mesa, AZ was to go for a relaxing cruise on Canyon Lake. This lake is one of three lakes in a chain of lakes on the Salt River whose waters come from the Roosevelt Dam higher up in the mountains east of Apache Junction. It is the middle lake of the three and is formed by water that is backed up by the 200-ft. high Mormon Dam. <br />
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We departed the dock at the marina and spent the next 1.5 hrs. enjoying the beautiful sights and animals along the banks.<br />
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We marveled at the rock formations on every hand.<br />
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Time flew by and way too soon the boat was turning around and heading back to the dock.<br />
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I watched an eagle flying overhead and saw where it landed on the cliff. I was able to get this photo of it before it flew away again.<br />
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We also saw several groups of big horn sheep. They were very hard to spot from the boat.<br />
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