Lost two dollars here

Las Vegas at last!

Signs

Finally found it

Clean car!

The Valley Boys Indoor Soccer kids help remove 1500+ miles of road dust

Another late morning start

Woo-Hoo!

Forget the big frosted doughnut, they sell Suzy Q's here!

Further south

Do the math

Somewhere south of San Fran

Silicon Valley!

Hi Ho, San Francisco!

Back at the ocean!

I'm driving THROUGH a tree!

Breakfast completed!

Breakfast at last! Now to San Francisco

Breakfast, Interrupted

I wish the guy at the hotel had mentioned breakfast ended at 11am :(

Eureka! California

I crossed the border into California a little before
11pm, and was promptly greeted by a station
where I had to stop and declare any produce I
was carrying. Welcome to CA! I think California
gets itself confused with Canada at times. Anyway,
after forgetting to mention the 4 tomatoes I had
stashed in the cooler in the trunk (it was late and
I was tired) (do you think if I planted the tomato seeds
somewhere in Cali it would bring about ecological ruin?,
or are they afraid that produce grown in other states
would inspire a more conservative mindset?), I drove straight
through to Eureka. In retrospect I should have stayed in
Crescent City so that I could have driven through the
Redwood Forest during daylight, but the drive was
interesting at night, there was a lot of mist, giving the
woods a very sppoky quality at times. I was often the
only car within my line of sight...

Sea Lion Caves

I had heard about this spot before I left, so I knew
I wanted to stop. There's an elevator built into the
side of the hill here that takes you 200' straight down
into a natural sea cave (they claim it's the largest
natural sea cave in the world?) The elevator lets
visitors off into a small gallery from which you can
look down into the main cave where the sea lions
rest on a rock just inside the cave entrance. I'm
assuming there is much more to the cave than we
could see, because it didn't seem all that large. But
there were a good number of sea lions. I hope my
new Canon camera got a good shot, but the lighting was
very low and flash photography was not allowed. The
Sea Lion Caves are just north of Florence, Oregon.

Lincoln City, Oregon

A Beautiful view from hwy 101 as I was leaving
Lincoln City, OR. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean
and a nice stretch of beach, I got my first glimpse at
the large rocky outcroppings that seem to be
extremely common off Oregon's western shores.

Lincoln city, Oregon

Wonderful pictures from my RAZR :(
This one should have been a shot of a sign
for the Lincoln City Inn in Oregon. This is where
I caught hwy 101 for the trip down the coast!

Sherwood, Oregon

The street sign that I failed to get a good
picture of as I flew down the road said
Welcome to Sherwood.

I'm In!

Looks like I'm in! I got the letter the other day, welcoming me to the University of Washington for the Fall quarter. Guess there's room for this old man to continue his education after-all. Now I'm just waiting for the Computer Science application decision. If that falls through I'll enter UW as a Math major, and will try for CS again in the Spring.

Now if the planets would just align so that I could find a job, after Alltel closes our center in September, that would give me the time needed for classes, then all will be well with the world ;)