2025 - January 28-29 - California Days 1 and 2

De-icing the plane

Where the rivers meet

Mountains of Colorado

Landed in Denver

Off we go to Burbank, CA

All the different views from the plane!

These are tasty

First palm tree

Oh. Dear.

Lunch

Hotel in Thousand Oaks

Fresh Remote?

Pretty courtyard

Lemon tree out the back porch

Kumquat tree

Super big cool pine cone

Meeting with L & M

Lots of laugh

They took us to a fantastic steak and seafood restaurant

appetizers (lamb ribs, bacon wrapped scallops, mozzarella and stuff

Seafood Lingunini

Steak and Lobster

steak and shrimp with scallop potatoes

gas prices

L is a hoot!

More people should be so joyful

Pastries. Amazing pastries.

On our way up to Visalia

Astroturf truck?

Giant elephant burying grounds?

I enjoyed sunshine and Aragorn enjoyed a meeting

I really liked these trees

Not sure what this is through Fresno

(Raisin Capital of the world)

Aqueduct?

A cyber tree?

Kumquats

Hotel in Mariposa

Earplugs in the hotel bathroom.

Not sure what that means?

Another "fresh remote"

Yeah.

Mariposa closes at 9 pm, the whole town closes. We ate dinner at "Little Shop of Ramen"

Sparkling peach soda and Ramen bowl

Yum!

And yes, we use chopsticks, don't you?

Mochi for a little sweet

Largest curb (two high) that I have ever seen