Scott's Wee Danders

Welcome back folks! In the last blog post, we spent the week in downtown San Francisco exploring the likes of the Golden Gate Bridge, Oracle Park and Alcatraz Island. However, in this blog post, we will be leaving the jungle of San Francisco and instead, we'll venture out of the city and spend our time visiting several different national parks, taking in the natural beauty California has to offer. The main stops on our journey this week include Muir Woods, Yosemite, a quick pitstop in Bodie and finally ending our adventure at Lake Tahoe. Muir Woods The first stop on our adventure this week was Muir Woods, home of the incredibly impressive coastal redwood trees. The coastal redwoods are a species of tree that are native to California and cannot be found anywhere else. Coastal redwoods are also sometimes confused with giant sequoias, another species of tree that is very similar to redwoods due to the fact that they share a distinctive colour, they both grow to enormous heights and ar...

Welcome back folks, and a belated Happy Halloween! For this blog post, I have decided to mix things up a bit and try something new. For my (late) Halloween Holiday Throwback, I've decided to add a spooky twist! For this adventure, I'll be splitting it into 2 separate blog posts with each blog post covering one of the two weeks I spent away. These blogs will be a holiday throwback to my trip to California which has been my favourite holiday I've been on and I cannot wait to go back. In order to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity, we made sure to pack as much sightseeing and different activities into our busy schedule. These included visiting San Francisco, Yosemite, the Golden Gate Bridge, Lake Tahoe, Alcatraz Island, Muir Woods and a trip to Oracle Park, home to the San Francisco Giants. San Francisco For the first week of our trip, we stayed in a lovely apartment in San Francisco that was reportedly worth over $1 million! Despite staying in an apartment that I ca...