How I Spent My "Summer Vacation"
- sjb, 9/21/98

Well it actually began February 13, 1998 . . .
over 20,000 miles by airplane, over 16,000 miles by automobile . . .
no estimate on miles by foot or miles swimming . . .zero miles hitchhiking 8th
. . .3 islands, dozens of beaches  8th and over 8 mountain peaks . . .
highlights including:

High Sierras, Pacific Crest Trail

Maui . . . . . . . .

High Sierras

April /May Road Trip - over 8,000 miles including:

• Oakland Hills, California
• Lake Tahoe
• Salt Lake City, Utah
• Grand Tetons
• Yellowstone
• Springfield, Pennsylvania
• Elk County, Pennsylvania . . . . . . . .
• National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.
• Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania
• New Orleans Jazz Festival
• Oklahoma storms
• Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Mountain cabin, New Mexico
• Grand Canyon, etc ...
• Four Corners
• Flagstaff, Arizona
• Havasu Falls 8th
• Oakland Hills, California

Big Sur . . . . . . . . 8th

High Sierras

San Francisco, Angel Island, Muir Woods, Stinson Beach, Half Moon Bay

Yosemite

Long Beach Island, New Jersey - wedding 8th

Santa Barbara

Goshute Mountains, Nevada/Utah - hawk counting and banding

Monterey

Tahoe, Desolation Wilderness

Eastern Sierras 8th - over 1,600 miles including:

Santa Cruz redwoods :)

still to come before this "summer" is over:
Tucson AZ, high Sonora desert
Santa Barbara
Big Sur ...storm?
 Maui??? ;)
Springfield
and of course Santa Cruz :)

In between trips spent in the Oakland Hills, relaxing and very rarely consulting
... but always swimming , writing, reading and dreaming ... surf's up!
- sjb