United States - 2012 July

RWH galleries on this site | all RWH holiday snaps | RWH home | New York City

United States - 2012 July

Thumbnails. No border: thumbnail links to a 640 pixel image. Pink border: thumbnail links to bigger image. Blue border: left hand half of thumbnail links to bigger image; right hand half links to image description on the Wikimedia Commons.

California 2012 itinerary

San Francisco Railway Museum
Phillips, Spallas, and Angstadt, LLP., Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 550; Phone: 415-278-9400 - contact Cormac Fawsitt, see my user talk
Temperance Flat Dam - no photo
Yosemite
Mono Lake
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
Yorba Linda Friends Church - no photo
Business Expo Center - no photo
Morningside Hospital - no article
La Brea Tar Pits
The Haworth Institute, 436 North Bedford Drive, Suite 105; Phone: 310-273-3000 - map
Palisades del Rey - no photo

I created the above before we set off to the USA. Partly because of the unfortunate fatal accident suffered by Prospero (my tablet PC) - see ++++ - but mainly because California turned out to be much bigger than I thought, the only places on the list that we managed to visit were the last three.

San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge

2012-07-20 19:00:22 Fr:127525 Sq:20190022

2012-07-20 20:28:33 Fr:127526 Sq:20202833

2012-07-20 20:28:44 Fr:127527 Sq:20202844

2012-07-21 06:13:18 Fr:127t67 Sq:21061318

2012-07-21 06:13:19 Fr:127t68 Sq:21061319

2012-07-21 06:14:10 Fr:127t69 Sq:21061410

2012-07-21 06:15:02 Fr:127t70 Sq:21061502

2012-07-21 06:16:45 Fr:127t71 Sq:21061645

2012-07-21 06:17:05 Fr:127t72 Sq:21061705

The massive pillar behind which the sun is rising looked to me like a late addition but it is part of the original design. Cables-wise the structure is two separate suspension bridges and this pillar, called the Center Anchorage corresponds to the land side anchorages at either end.

2012-07-21 06:20:10 Fr:127t73 Sq:21062010

2012-07-21 06:21:12 Fr:127t74 Sq:21062112

2012-07-21 06:26:22 Fr:127t75 Sq:21062622

2012-07-21 06:28:25 Fr:127t76 Sq:21062825

2012-07-21 06:31:00 Fr:127t77 Sq:21063100

2012-07-21 06:32:59 Fr:127t78 Sq:21063259

2013-11-13 09:13:21 Fr:breakdawn Sq:210670

Jason Jenkins caught this view

Griffon Hotel, Steuart Street

2012-07-21 07:16:38 Fr:127529 Sq:21071638

2012-07-21 07:16:55 Fr:127530 Sq:21071655

2012-07-21 07:17:29 Fr:127531 Sq:21071729

2012-07-21 07:18:22 Fr:127532 Sq:21071822

Ferry Plaza

2012-07-21 08:54:05 Fr:127533 Sq:21085405

2012-07-21 08:54:38 Fr:127534 Sq:21085438

2012-07-21 08:55:37 Fr:127535 Sq:21085537

2012-07-21 08:55:49 Fr:127536 Sq:21085549

2012-07-21 08:56:21 Fr:127537 Sq:21085621

2012-07-21 09:01:41 Fr:127538 Sq:21090141

2012-07-21 09:02:30 Fr:127539 Sq:21090230

2012-07-21 09:06:32 Fr:127540 Sq:21090632

2012-07-21 09:07:19 Fr:127541 Sq:21090719

The San Francisco Belt Railroad used to run here

2012-07-21 09:08:42 Fr:127542 Sq:21090842

2012-07-21 09:09:27 Fr:127543 Sq:21090927

2012-07-21 09:09:42 Fr:127544 Sq:21090942

2012-07-21 09:10:04 Fr:127545 Sq:21091004

2012-07-21 09:11:12 Fr:127546 Sq:21091112

2012-07-21 09:12:22 Fr:127547 Sq:21091222

2012-07-21 09:12:48 Fr:127548 Sq:21091248

2012-07-21 09:17:11 Fr:127549 Sq:21091711

2012-07-21 09:18:36 Fr:127550 Sq:21091836

2012-07-21 09:19:15 Fr:127551 Sq:21091915

2012-07-21 09:20:30 Fr:127552 Sq:21092030

2012-07-21 09:21:19 Fr:127553 Sq:21092119

2012-07-21 09:23:07 Fr:127555 Sq:21092307

2012-07-21 09:23:42 Fr:127556 Sq:21092342

2012-07-21 09:25:07 Fr:127557 Sq:21092507

Going to collect RV

2012-07-21 11:12:59 Fr:127603 Sq:21111259

2012-07-21 11:16:09 Fr:127604 Sq:21111609

Cabrillo Highway

2012-07-21 18:52:53 Fr:127605 Sq:21185253

2012-07-21 18:54:25 Fr:127608 Sq:21185425

2012-07-21 18:54:48 Fr:127609 Sq:21185448

2012-07-21 18:55:38 Fr:127610 Sq:21185538

Half Moon Bay

Cameron's Restaurant & Inn

2012-07-21 19:35:57 Fr:127611 Sq:21193557

2012-07-21 19:43:12 Fr:127612 Sq:21194312

2012-07-22 09:27:39 Fr:127613 Sq:22092739

2012-07-22 09:28:08 Fr:127614 Sq:22092808

2012-07-22 09:28:34 Fr:127615 Sq:22092834

2012-07-22 09:51:11 Fr:127616 Sq:22095111

2012-07-22 09:54:29 Fr:127617 Sq:22095429

2012-07-22 09:58:36 Fr:127618 Sq:22095836

2012-07-22 10:11:22 Fr:127619 Sq:22101122

Cabrillo Highway

2012-07-22 10:58:16 Fr:127620 Sq:22105816

Pigeon Point Lighthouse

Waddell Bluffs

2012-07-22 11:17:37 Fr:127621 Sq:22111737

2012-07-22 11:22:50 Fr:127623 Sq:22112250

I think these loops are a second line of defence against falling material.

2012-07-22 11:32:00 Fr:127624 Sq:22113200

Santa Cruz

2012-07-22 13:01:19 Fr:127625 Sq:22130119

2012-07-22 13:02:15 Fr:127626 Sq:22130215

2012-07-22 13:02:36 Fr:127627 Sq:22130236

2012-07-22 13:03:18 Fr:127628 Sq:22130318

Santa Cruz is a bit like Blackpool with palm trees. It was a Sunday and busy so we just drove straight through after seeing the recently created roundabout - a very unusual feature in the US. See this article.

2012-07-22 13:17:40 Fr:127630 Sq:22131740

Moss Landing

2012-07-22 14:55:11 Fr:127632 Sq:22145511

Jetty Road, Moss landing. We watched these people for at least half an hour trying to get these two horses into an horse box - they just would not go. The people were still trying when we left.

Monterey