Last Road Trip Report and Photo Essay
All things come to an end.
Thank you for reading my last road trip report. Still no fishing, so I hope it’s worth your time!
I just finished a wonderful little book, The Angler’s Book of Favorite Fishing Quotations. I wrote a review you can read here…
My intent is to include a quote from this book in every fishing report, assuming I can remember to do that. I need to keep my copy on my desk.
Road Trip-
Maxx and I and the pets had spent two nights in Porterville so we could hike among the sequoias. That accomplished, it was time to head to our actual destination, which was Oakland.
We drove north on CA 99 through the central valley of California, where a lot of our food is grown. We drove through Selma, the Raisin Capital of the World. We drove through miles and miles of flowering trees. I did not know what they were but think there were pistachios and almonds, and maybe cherries? It seems too far south for cherries though. We passed big lots full of Holstein dairy cows that were covered in mud and manure, yuk.
We passed through windmill farms. I’d like to get a few of those seeds!
We at last got to Maxx’s new apartment, on a mountainside in the Montclair section of Oakland. It’s strange, they build houses on 70 degree slopes, it’s living on the side of a cliff.
Crossing the Bay Bridge.
Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Why isn’t it golden??
After visiting Oakland I can see why the city told the Raiders to build their own stadium. Homeless camps everywhere, a lot of people living in tents on the roadside. It’s heartbreaking. I hope the city uses some of the money they’re not spending on a stadium to help those folks. It will be a huge job.
There were all kinds of flowers along the trail. I am not familiar with this one.
California poppy.
Calla lily, a beautiful bloom.
Apple? Cherry? Something in the rose family I think.
Wood sorrel grows all across the continent.
Brian Jaye took Maxx, Catalina and I on a walk through the Muir Woods, a grove of redwoods that didn’t get logged to oblivion. It was on a Sunday. The place is very popular, with lots of languages in use there. Redwoods are not as big as the sequoias, but are still very impressive. It was a lovely day.
Do you have chipmunkiosis?
Catalina, Maxx, and Brian in Muir Woods.
Clowning around in a redwood tree.
The happy couple, Maxx and Catalina.
Wednesday morning I got on an Air Alaska jet, a non-stop from San Francisco to Orlando. I had a great time travelling across the country with my son, but there’s no place like home, as Dorothy said.
And that’s my last road trip report and photo essay for this trip. Thanks for reading it!
I intend to fish this coming week!
“If you don’t go fishing because you thought it might rain you will never go fishing. This applies to more than fishing.” -Gary Sow
Life is great and I love my work!
Every day is a blessing. Don’t waste it- Go Fishing!
John Kumiski, author of Fishing Florida by Paddle- An Angler’s Guide
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