Hiking az trail and visiting biosphere 2 near oracle az

Early morning hike
Malino basin on Azt
Driving up the highway toward summer haven
Visiting and touring the biosphere
Inside the coastal sphere
Special tour in mechanical systems area under sphere
Air lung chamber
Ocean biome
Tropical biome
Outside
Catalina state park
Camping in Tucson

Hiking in Sabino canyon and hiking the AZ trail

We started the day with a 8 mile hike.

Sabino canyon
Hiking up phone line trail
Hiking up
Fall colors on road back hike
Views above Tucson
Hiking the Arizona trail from our campground
Camping at Molino basin
Campsite

Tucson Arizona

We drove from San Diego to Tucson Arizona where we will spend a few days hiking the various mountains and connecting with Arizona trail angels.

Driving across on hwy 8
Camping in ray Gilbert campground
Our van at dusk
View out the back of van

San Diego biking and Balboa park

San Diego is non stop military operations. Today an aircraft carrier came in the morning.
Biking the San Diego shoreline
Cool ships
Star of India
Anchored boats
Visit to Spanish village art center
Spanish village art center
Walking around historic balboa park
Dinner and visit with friends in San Diego

San Diego

Today we did sone early morning walking on San Diego bay and biking riding at mission bay. Later in the afternoon we connected with our friend Chris and jumped on his sailboat.

Morning sunrise over San Diego bay
Walking along San Diego bay
Biking at Mission bay
Sunset at the harbor on the sailboat

Sunset at the harbor

San Diego harbor

We arrived late afternoon in San Diego to jump on a sailboat tomorrow.

Parked on shelter island for walk and dinner
The city across the bay
Huge marinas everywhere!

Del Mar California

Early morning walk at Del Mar beach
High tides and surfers
Swimming mid day at a Carlsbad pool
Late afternoon walk on coast and setting sun
Alicia and bird at sunset
Little alley ways access to beach

Ocean Side and Del Mar

Today we did a morning walk at Carlsbad and a bike ride to ocean side. In the afternoon we drive to Del Mar and biked and walked the long wide beach.

Morning at Carlsbad
Ocean side
Mocha stop
Del Mar at tracks
Del Mar beach
Sunset beach walk
Jumping
Selfie
Sunset

The van life

Each day is filled with another set of adventures. We start the day early with our first coffee. Then maybe an early beach walk. After breakfast we are off for a longer hike or bike ride or two. In the afternoon we often stop for coffee on hike or bike ride before returning home. We then move the van to an ocean view lot and cook dinner and watch the sunset. After dinner we do some online research of travels or some guitar or art or reading. Then we move the van to a dark and stealth neighborhoods location where we spend the night.

Cooking in the van
Mocha stops
Hammock in van in carpinteria on beach
All day free parking next to beach
Miles of beaches
Back of van and garage with biked and sports stuff and music and art
Stealth camping
Van as an art studio on beach

La Jolla beach – California

Morning hike in preserve near San Diego
Waterfalls in preserve
Watching parasailing on coast
Bike ride to La Jolla beach from Del Mar
Another sunset at Carlsbad beach

Carlsbad on thanksgiving

Early morning at the beach
Jumped and ran a local 5k run
Biked to solano beach
Set up art studio in van at the beach
Another beach sunset
Finished painting of barn in Ojai
Biking the coast

Huntington Beach

Morning walk at Oxnard beach and harbor
Marina at Oxnard
Biking at Huntington Beach

Ojai California

Morning walk in capetinetia
Steep mountain hike in Ojai preserves directly above Ojai
Very steep and hot hiking
Mocha and fresh breads in Ojai
Bart’s book store – an outdoor bookstore
Books on the outside wall too
Court yard rooms of books
Biking around Ojai
Orange groves
Biking with the setting sun

Santa Barbara

Hiking up the inspiration trail
High above Santa Barbara
Mission Santa Barbara
Scott plein air painting on sb coast with meetup painting group
Sunset on the coast
Plein air meetup group of artists

CuraƧao and Aruba trip – part 1

These trip posts are out of order. We did this trip starting on February 11 2023 for about 2 weeks. We were able to jump on a catamaran in Caribbean.

We grabbed our passports and headed off to sail
View out the port hole
A cove where sailed to
The cat we were sailing on
Snorkeling in bay

Santa Barbara

We arrived in Santa Barbara on a cloudy rainy evening. We hiked along the waterfront and biked and painted a picture with the rain coming and going

Painting inside the van studio !
Final painting of view of lake in central Washington pct section

Pickle ball and Avila beach

We played several games of pickle ball at the meadow view park in slo. What a great way to meet new community in each town at public pickle ball courts.
We biked to Avila beach from slo and back
Avila beach