California Highlights - Part 2

After getting the opportunity to connect with people in Southern California, we traveled north to San Francisco

On two nights, we didn't have a place to stay so we decided to camp instead. The first night we camped on Bodega Bay. This was fun as we got to hear the ocean waves from our campsite; however, sleeping was slightly impaired by the fog horn going off every 10 seconds!

We then traveled to Redding, CA, where we got to connect with a good friend of Rachel's and camped at Lake Shasta.

It was really beautiful...

And it was nice to have a restful morning in the middle of all our travels.

Saying goodbye to camping, we headed to Sonoma, CA, where we got to connect with some old friends and some new friends.

I (Josh) had fun playing croquet (though I may be banned from ever playing again in Sonoma County because of some of my tactics).

Our friends from Sonoma took us on a tour of the local area where we got In-n-Out, saw the Golden Gate Bridge,

and got to see the "Bay Model" -- a physical model of the San Francisco bay that scientists used for 50 years to model water-flow in the bay (this amazed Josh, as science is definitely NOT done like this anymore!)

Thanks Tim and Jan!

California Highlights

We're in the middle of a road trip through California and just wanted to share a couple of photos with you. :) 

After 8 years, I (Rachel) got to see one of my very best friends from Kazakhstan again!

 We met up in L.A. in caught up on a million things. 

Josh continues to take gorgeous photos...

 This was from a friend's super awesome garden in Las Vegas on the way out here.

Near Santa Monica, we drank a smoothie on the beach, Josh's favorite beach activity.

(Not pictured: Josh, smoothie)

And we've been staying the last few days in Bakersfield with new and wonderful friends. We haven't taken pictures with them (or of other great friends we've gotten together with)... but we do have a picture of Lancelot the Cat. 

He's pretty awesome. :)