Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Round and round they went with Cameron screaming the whole way.....he was not a fan, and he has been traumatized. The Boardwalk was part of their vacation.
Team Manteca, CA July 13, 2011 Dan and Cam

The Famous Lone Cypress Tree

Dan, Carrie and kids were on vacation this week in Monterey, CA and drove the 17 Mile Drive. Cameron was especially serious about this photo shoot.
Team Manteca, CA July 12, 2011

Wheel of fortune in Manteca

Team Manteca, CA-
Dan and Carrie (and new little one) July 16, 2011
This is the entrance to an old subdivision here in town-many new settlers have passed by here-Ye Haw. We had a few choices from this location. Across the street was a fence made out of metal wagon wheels, they had a few wheels up against their back fence that were really cool but we figured they would not appreciate us jumping their fence to take a picture, and down the street was a gate made from a metal wheel.

Alone again, naturally

team: Young
location: Lower Hotel Trail, Joseph D. Grant Ranch Park - Hall's Valley, Santa Clara County

We headed out for the hills this fine Saturday to go on a history hike and tour of the historic Grant ranch house.  Learned lots about the history of this pretty little valley on the other side of the eastern foothills.  Then we took off on a hike to the circle corral.  As we hiked up this hill we spotted the lone oak tree out on the knob of this hill.  Now we want to go back in the spring to catch the wildflower show!  

We didn't have time to travel further up Mt. Hamilton road to see if we could spot the Smith Creek picnic grounds.

Concours d'Elegance Ready

This vintage flat-bed Ford is car-show ready. You can see that they've put some righteous sideboards on it to give it that serious truck touch. You can just make out "F350 Custom" above the number 18 on the fender. More evidence that it's not some wuss pickup chassis.

We were concerned that someone might emerge from the elegant residence beside it, but since it was early Saturday morning we hoped their TGIF hadn't worn off yet.

Here you see that on closer inspection there was one small detail to correct before it was ready for showing. On the other hand three out of four characters is still a pretty good identifier. (Click to embiggen the picture.)

Team Spokane:
Parked in the great City of Spokane Valley.

Economy Size Barber Pole

I'm sure that Tom's place has *always* been there, and I've driven by there many times, but it was Marcia who spotted it.

You can see that they claim to have 5 barbers, but I don't see how they'd fit them in that little converted house. The actual pole is tiny, but it does rotate.

Team Spokane: with a dubious look on TheGeezer's face.
Another City of Spokane Valley attraction.

Mural covering the side of a wall

We've actually got (at least) three murals covering the sides of buildings in our town. Here's one for ya...