The Redwoods – Those Old Men of the US Forests

Screen Shot 2014-06-18 at 11.09.00 amEverywhere we have travelled these last weeks we have seen tall trees, all kinds of tall mountain pine trees. They have become what are some of our most indelible of memories from this trip. Here in southern mountains of Oregon this is very much the view everywhere you look, it is like what the gum tree is to Australia. Continue reading

Oldies at Large – On the Oregon Trail West

reblogging 🙂 wordpress stuffed up the publication somehow … thanks guys

Jan Hawkins Author

Climbed out of bed this morning at some hideous hour… if I was back in Aus I could have said I slept in but here on the other side of the world 6am is a hideous hour. I think it has something to do with the sun not setting until 10pm and taking so damn long to sink. Nothing seems to stir beyond 8:30am here so our hour of rising is considered hideous.  

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