Do you know the way to San Jose?
If we did, we would have been a lot happier . . . seems we had a little problem with our flight reservations.
When we broke the news to the girls, they wanted the good news first, so I asked:
"Where is the one place in the US that you would most like to go?"
Sarah immediately replied, "California!"
"Where in California would you like to go?"
"San Francisco!"
"Well, the good news is that we are going to San Francisco. The bad news is that we aren't going to Costa Rica with the Myers."
Because of an airline snafu, we accidentally ended up in San Jose, California rather than San Jose, Costa Rica.
BUMMER!!!
Did you hear about the record-setting rainfall in California last week?
The mud slides? The flash floods? The washed-out roads? The earthquake?
In keeping with the Jungbauer vacation "adventure" tradition, we were there!
(We don't expect sympathy --- we felt sorry enough for ourselves.)
This pretty well sums up the majority of our trip.
Did you know it was warmer in Indiana than it was in California?
Notice the flood of water that is making a 12-inch wake around the sign post.
At the coast, what was once a trickle of a stream eroded away a four-foot wall.
A refreshing wet picture.
It stopped raining just long enough for a rare family photo
at the Golden Gate Bridge.
A brief glimpse of Napa - and a brief glimpse of sunshine!
Monterey is a quiet little coastal town about 60 miles south of San Francisco. This is "home" to Cannery Row, about which the infamous novelist John Steinbeck wrote.
The infamous cypress tree of Pebble Beach.
One of my favorite parts of the trip was driving on US 1 along the coast. Unfortunately, Rachel turned green in the back seat and Sarah, like Grampa David, couldn't watch. The photos fail to do justice to the dramatic coastline drive.
Photos don't do justice to the redwoods either.
If you look, you can always find something positive.
Sorry about the rain. Great photos. You guys really got around. Took us quite a few years of weekends to get to and explore all those places while living there.
Wow! Your photos are terrific; you could never have gotten those in nice weather!
;-) dad
Just your luck. I don't think we saw that much rain in the entire three years we lved there. Hope you had fun despite the floods. Its a great place to visit.
Well, Well..... We saw the weather and I knew you were doing the traditional Grandstaff vacation. RAIN, RAIN, RAIN. Jeff is so proud of your ability to continue his tradition. Hope you drank an beer for him when you were there. Great photo's and we envied you a little...(I love those trees!) Glad your back safe and sound.
Pen Pen
Wish I'd known, I have a friend living in San Jose! But it looks like ya'll didn't need her as a tour guide :)
Lots of love.