Another Quick Update

Wizard Island, Crater Lake

September, 2006

I have a few posts I’m putting together (nothing particularly spellbinding!) but I’ve been wrestling with a cold for several days now, and it completely wiped out my weekend…. So unfair!

As a filler post, I thought I would link to the large photo gallery from our September, 2006 trip to northeastern California and into Oregon. This was a family trip, with a little geocaching thrown in here and there for my sake, and to lead us to a few interesting locations.

We used the car for the trip instead of the Jeep, since I had no offroading planned. We could have used the Jeep once or twice on short dirt roads but overall the M3 was a joy. The biggest downside for me was the lack of lumbar support in the M3’s sport seats after several consecutive days with a lot of driving. The other downside was that I didn’t feel I could add the pics to my regular Jeep galleries, so this has become something of the “lost photo album” on my site.

As a consequence, there are no captions like I would normally have added to the pictures. Also the tone of the photos are slightly different, reflecting the family nature of the trip. We sure did visit some breathtakingly beautiful places too. How could anyone not love Crater Lake?

The purpose of the trip was to get some family vacation time, and to explore NE California, the largest part of the state that I’d still never seen in person. It was outside the regular tourist season, and a little before the prime Fall colors in the trees, but before there was risk of snow causing us problems on some of the trip. It was a wonderful scouting expedition.

I hope you enjoy the pictures 1/10th as much as I enjoyed revisiting them.