This post was extracted from our old website.
It shows photos of the following from our 1999 trip to the USA:
San Francisco
Tony attended a conference in the States last year. The last couple of days were in San Francisco where I met up with him. We spent two weeks in San Francisco and got to do most of the touristy things in that time, except ride the cable car.
On the left is the Bay Bridge, a double-deck bridge. During the 1989 earthquake one of the sections in the upper deck dropped onto the deck below.
Not a great photo, think I've taken out too much of the graininess. The sea lions moved to Pier 39, an entertainment complex, after the 1989 earthquake. They were just lazing around, but the noise and smell were indescribable.
As with most "wildlife" photos, we used up almost half a roll of film.
These houses are seen at the beginning of many sitcoms and films shot in San Francisco.
Yosemite National Park
The Yosemites were beautiful. We spent 4 days there, breaking up a tour to ensure that we could have extra time. In the end, we could have spent more time there. Our room looked onto the sheer walls of the valley and overlooked a grassed area where the squirrels ran around. Raccoons climbed down the tree next to our balcony and ambushed us when we went to get ice at night.
Unfortunately, photographs cannot show the full beauty of this place, and because half the animals are nocturnal or won't keep still, we did not have many wildlife shots.
Tony took 2 photos , one of El Capitan itself and then another of the climbers using full zoom. The inset photograph matches the section circled on the rock. I think there are actually supposed to be three climbers in this shot.
It takes 4-5 days to climb El Capitan and the climbers sleep overnight on the rock. At night we could see the torch lights of climbers part way up the rock.
Los Angeles
We only had 3 days in Los Angeles, 2 taken up with tours and the third to visit my pen friend, Jane, and her husband, James. The last photos are still in our camera. The first day of our stay was Hollywood and Universal Studios, the second was Disneyland.
After this photo was taken, the clock struck, bells rang and out walked … Donald and Daisy.
He just can't get away from the paparazzi.
Jane was my very first pen pal. We've been writing for 20 years!
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