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Golly! It sure has been a while since I’ve been on here! Anywho, we were in Milo McIver State Park here in Oregon for about a week seeing the Portland, the rain, the maple bars, and other stuff in the area. Warning, this post ended up coming out rather random. You’ve been warned. Paige Pierce (2011 world champion) is about to throw. Turns out there was a big disc golf competition right there in the campground. Apparently it’s such a big thing that the world champion disc golfers came to play. What’s that? You want more randomness? Okey dokey, here’s my review for Burgerville. I found Burgerville to be a lot like In-N-Out. So if you didn’t like In-N-Out, you probably won’t like Burgerville. Let’s start with the similarities between Burgerville and In-N-Out. They are both fast food joints, but are fresh fast food joints. In-N-Out is only within the area that they can ship their supplies to without freezing them, Burgerville is only in Oregon, so I assume it’s the same with them. And both have friendly employees. Here’s the differences, Burgerville has more options on their menu (including onion rings the size of your burger and breakfast) And, umm, ehhh, I guess that’s it for differences. All in all, I think I like Burgerville better.
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Newberry National Monument? They’ve got new berries? And they made a national monument out of it? Turns out it’s actually called Newberry National Volcanic Monument. And they’ve got obsidian! We saw obsidian back in Mono lake and since we liked it so much, we decided to introduce the Boyinks to the rock that we came to love. (I’m not in many of these pictures; there was just so many things to take pictures of so I didn’t have time to set up my tripod and hop into the shot) We also checked out a Cinder Cone volcano and an old 1 mile long underground lava tube. -Collared Boar Diamond Lake is a short bike ride from our campground that we were in while we were visiting Crater Lake. Not much to it, but there is a nice 11 mile bike trail around the lake and the lake itself is actually one of the top trout fishing lakes in Oregon. So all in all, not much to this lake unless you like fishing. But if you’re in the area visiting Crater Lake, it might be worth checking out.
-Collared Boar First of, we met up with the Boyinks again! Niiiiiiiiice! But where are we? Crater Lake National Park. Crater Lake exceeded my expectations by a long shot. There’s just something about it that’s just jaw-dropping. But enough talk, time for pictures. One of the days we were there, we decided to take a hike down to the water. The road was closed, so we rode our bikes four and a half miles to the trailhead. It was pretty steep in places, but at one point we were going downhill for almost 2 miles. -Collared Boar
You want beaches? Sure. You want sea stacks? Sure. You want driftwood? Sure. You want tidepooling? Sure. You want woods? Sure. You want full hookups? No problem. Harris Beach State Park has it all. So, that’s all the pictures I have, I guess I was having too much fun throwing the frisbee and tidepooling to take many pictures. But, this park is DEFINITELY worth visiting.
-Collared Boar There’s a lot of debate on the web, but after talking to a park ranger for a bit, it was confirmed that Jedediah Smith State Park in Oregon was one of the locations where George Lucas filmed the scenes for the moon of Endor from Star Wars episode VI. That’s right, this is where the Ewoks live. Ok, so we didn’t see any Ewoks, but that’s because they live deeper in the woods, away from the trail. Unless they happen to be blowing up a shield generator or something like that. But on to the park itself. It’s another one of the Redwood National and State parks, but what’s funny is, we all found that we liked this park better than the National park. How about some pictures? This is the root system of a Redwood. A big one that is. Redwoods are the tallest trees in the world, but not the biggest. The Sequoias are the biggest by volume. The funny thing about Redwoods is their roots only go about ten feet into the ground, but then they stretch hundreds of feet sideways and connect with other roots. Sequoia roots only go about five feet into the ground and I don't think they reach sideways. Which is why you aren't allowed to stand right up next to one.
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Patrick’s Point State Park in California sure was fun! Even though we only spent a day there, we saw a lot of cool stuff. Our first adventure of the day started at about 7:00 in the morning with some great tidepooling. What’s tidepooling? Well I’ll tell ya. Tidepooling is where you go to a rocky sort of beach at low tide and look in all the little pools that still have water in them from high tide. Here’s some pictures of our findings. After that, we headed back home for some french toast, and then headed to Agate beach. Agates are small and very pretty rocks that can be found all over this beach (hence the name). -Collared Boar So this is just gonna be a quick post on a few things I forgot about in Redding and the town of Eureka. Though the Nathan Sawaya exhibit will not always be at the museum, the Sundial pedestrian bridge will. It was designed by a famous architect known as Santiago Calatrava. He’s actually so famous in the architect world, he’s known as a “starchitect.” But enough about him, let’s see his bridge! Now on to Eureka, there isn’t a whole lot to Eureka, but there is a nice little farmer’s market, the bay, and some outdoor gear places. And here's some rich dude's house. -Collared Boar So, ehhh, I uhhh, kinda, sorta, lost my camera and all the pictures from Lassen Volcanic National Park. :( But I do have some pictures from the Nathan Sawaya exhibit at the museum in Redding! Nathan Sawaya used to be an attorney, but he found he didn’t like his job, so he found something he did like. And that was building things with LEGO bricks! He has since quit his job as an attorney and switched to full time LEGO building. At some point in time, Mr. Sawaya teamed up with some noteworthy photographer who I have forgotten the name of and took pictures of things and people who they thought sort of showed the American...culture, I guess. But then Mr. Sawaya made a few of the objects in the picture in LEGO form and used some sort of computer imagery to put the LEGO object into the picture in place of the original. For example, in the picture below, he changed the man’s umbrella into a LEGO umbrella. -Collared Boar
Now before I get started I want to make one thing clear, Mono Lake and Lake Tahoe aren’t really anywhere near each other, it’s just that we went to Mono Lake and afterwards to Lake Tahoe and neither one was that spectacular so I’m combining them into one post. One thing that was pretty cool in Mono Lake was the Panum Crater trail. The trail leads through a whole bunch of obsidian rock that you can touch (but not take) as you go. I think it’s my new favorite rock. The only other thing that we saw that was kinda cool was the tufas. A tufa is a big salt pillar thing that forms around a fresh water spring under the lake. Then, when the water recedes, you can see the tufas! Lake Tahoe was a lot like Sedona, Arizona. (Ho ho! That rhymed) It was a pretty lake surrounded by casinos, hotels, and other touristy things. However, when we walked into the Safeway for groceries, we found.... Yeah that's about it.
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