Heading back home from the Redwoods.

Confusion hill Gravity House

Drive through Tree

Creative shot taken by Cynthia

Me and Cynthia

So we stopped at Confusion Hill (confusing by the way) and also at the Chandelier drive Through tree on our long drive back to San Fran.  It was nice to stretch our legs to break up the driving.  Pretty Cool.

Day 2-Hiking through the redwoods.

Cynthia enjoying the view at Patrick's Point.

Redwood trees

Lots of mossy looking stuff

Lots of Clovers

Me at "The Big Tree" in Prairie Creek

So amazing 1500yrs old

Cynthia and me

A branch off the big tree which is like the size of another whole tree.

So the second day was a day of hiking.  We first stopped of a Patrick's point for a nice view. We then headed up a little farther and hiked about 10 or 11 miles through the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.  This park supposedly is uncut and the real deal.  We hiked to Fern Canyon which was pretty neat with a bunch of ferns growing along a canyon wall.  The last part of our day was visiting "The Big Tree Wayside."  Pretty amazing to see a tree so large.  You have to have pictures with people to understand the size of these things.  I loved this place and highly recommend going sometime in your life.

A trip to the Redwood forest-day 1

Golden Gate Bridge on the way up.

The first viewing a Redwood.  Sort of a drive by while the driving in the car shot.

Of course I had to stop for a geocache in the Cemetery.

Stopped at glass beach on the way up.

Glass beach Sunset.

Last weekend a friend from work and I went to take a super short trip to see the redwood trees.  The first day was basically travel.  We flew into San Fran, and drove up the rest of the way from there with a few stops along the way.  The redwoods were on the bucket list and was glad to cross off the Golden Gate too.

The Grand Canyon

The second day of our trip was to the west rim of the Grand Canyon.  This was for sure what I came for and was not disappointed.   

A couple of us decided to pay the big bucks for a helicopter and boat ride.  We were picked up at the top, we rode down to the bottom, rode up the Colorado River for a while then got back in the helicopter to ride back.  It was pretty cool!  It is really hard to put into perspective how big this place is with nothing around for scale.

From the Helicopter

Boat Ride

Eagle Rock

Sky Walk- has a glass bottom to see below you.

Hoover Dam

118 degrees F.  Hot day.

Bus Tour Las Vegas-Grand Canyon

The Bellagio Hotel

Glass Flowers on the ceiling.

Bellagio Fountain show

Fountain show

Volcano at the "Mirage"

Largest screen in the world 1500ft long, Freemont Street.

Spider-man and the Transformers hanging out, batman was busy with some kids.

View from the Stratosphere

Last week I took a  Chinese/English bus tour to Las Vegas/ Grand Canyon with a group of people from work.  We left early Sunday morning and arrived in the afternoon at the Stratosphere Hotel.  Every thing is super cheap just to get you there so that you will spend your money at the casinos.  In fact, if you cancel you have to pay a fine multiple times more than what you actually paid for your ticket to get there since they were planning on you spending a lot of money.  

The first day was mostly driving to get there with multiple pits stops. I went on another bus tour in the evening of some of the hot spots on "The Strip."  And then to the top of our hotel where there were a few rides.  Busy Day.