Taken just PRIOR to the California trip - Red Square on the University of Washington campus while there for an NSF proposal site visit. |
Edge of Red Square, UW |
Anacapa Island of the Channel Islands, taken from the window of my United Air flight to California. |
My fancy hotel room service, the Island Hotel, Newport Beach |
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering, UC-Irvine campus. |
Lovely hillside on the way to an NRC committee dinner |
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A group of some of the smartest geographers you'll ever meet. NRC Strategic Directions in Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade. |
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Snoopy headquarters just outside the park entrance |
Inside the headquarters. A Snoopy groupie's dream come true! |
More Peanuts loot inside the headquarters ... |
... and still more! |
... and more! |
Display of Snoopy's siblings outside the headquarters |
... another display |
Entrance to Knotts Berry Farm |
Dawn finally makes it back to Camp Snoopy! |
Camp Snoopy with friend Tim |
Camp Snoopy |
Giant romper Snoopy |
Knotts Berry Farm's newest roller coaster, The Pony Express, where you ride on TOP of a horse on a roller coaster track. It had just opened at the part the week prior. |
Ghost Town Calico railroad, a real train from the 1800s. |
Super train fan Tim |
One of the "outlaws" who held up the train. |
Wild west show |
Wild west show |
The GhostRider, one of the longest and tallest wooden roller coasters in the world. This old thing beats you to death in your seat! |
More to my liking was the super modern Silver Bullet, an "inverted" roller coaster where you hang BELOW the track! See also this link. |
I was in the car approximately 4 spaces from the right! Whoo-hooo! |