California Dreamin

Sea Lions snoozing at La Jolla near San Diego

San Diego Zoo

San Diego zoo

San Jose - Apple HQ Silicon Valley

Ford Trimotor San Diego Air & Space Museum

Outside Fort Hunter Liggett Army Base between San Francisco & LA

Bronze 'Top Men' hauling in the sheets - Dana Point

One of Rodin's 'Thinker's' - Stanford  University Palo Alto

California & Texas

Caltech graduation ceremony - hot - outside - the speaker was an inspiring black woman astronaut from the back streets of Chicago.

26 miles to Catalina Island - via catamaran off Long Beach

Visit to JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) near Caltech in Pasadena - here in the clean room they are assembling the next Mars rover capsule for 2020

Curiosity Mars Rover

Texas - native - Nine Banded Armadillo

Moose at Field and Stream

$180 cowboy boots

Watched 250,000 Mexican free tailed bats take off down the Bayou at dusk for a feed

 Houston Artcar museum

Neighbour's TR3

Museum of Fine Arts

 Elissa tall ship - at Galveston

Fishermans Wharf bar

Johnson Space Center - Saturn V

Mission Control - & rover

Astronaut had just come out of the buoyancy tank - all that was left was his pants

Moon buggy

A coffee where the students hang out 

California

Itching to sketch, but not on the first plane. See my pens and sketch pad for the view in the ATR 72 with silver fern decor.

Now onto the trans Pacific flight

Squirrel eating peanuts on Lee's balcony

Jet Pack crew taking turns 

A kiwi manning the tender boat.

Certainly was fun

Caltech turtle pond

Caltech capitals, see the aviators, guys with microscopes and telescopes.

LA Airport Cantina figures

California

Blue skies, no wind, 28C every day....

Caltech Campus Red Door Café

Pasadena City Hall

Crystalaire Soaring academy tow plane on edge of Mojave desert.  Towed us up over the back side of the San Gabriels

Glider

Chevy's at Ojai

Venice Canal

Art Deco/Mission style Union St Station - Down town LA

Ynez Valley Model T outside vineyard

San Buenaventura Mission

The Getty Center