Well the year started wet. We spent two weeks in Portland, Oregon. We spent a couple days at my nieces place, and then headed to the coast. We did a day trip to Astoria, and then two nights in Newport. Here’s some shots from both locations.
We were also able to attend a Portland Trailblazers game with great seats, cause, well basically, they’re not doing great this year.
We were also able to make it out to Hood River where my sister and her husband live. It was an enjoyable time of sharing. Along the drive there we stopped at Multnomah Falls which I truly love photographing.
We spent two nights in some of the McMenamins hotels, one in McMinnville, and the other at the Kennedy School in PDX. If you’ve never stayed at one, I highly recommend it. It’s not just a place to stay, it’s an experience.
And then she surprised me with a three day trip to Yosemite to celebrate us being together 21 years. Sucks that I was sick most of the trip, but the park was empty, just the way we like it.
And by the end of January we were scheduled to volunteer at the ATT ProAm Pebble Beach Classic. I was appointed to do distribution while Leslie did admissions.
Our son-in-law flies for Fed-Ex, and is stationed out of Nashville, TN. He needed one of his cars that are located in Paso Robles, CA where he lives taken out east, and since we both now have open schedules we offered to drive it there for him. Four days on the road,, ten days travel time, 2400 miles, and a ton of fun. Love road trips like this with no timeline or explanation. And since we were there we even did some family history research on Leslie’s tree.
And in May we could be found in the Pacific Northwest passage, specifically Ketchikan and Juneau, Alaska. Was a little rainy, but an enjoyable trip, complete with Glaciers and Orca whales.
And here's a couple YouTube videos of images and videos I shot while on the trip.
September found us on the east coast, visiting 19 Edgemere which was my first house I lived in, to Jersey City where Leslie has Irish ancestry.
From there we made our way to Nantucket for a couple days. Great weather and wonderful scenery.
From there we were off to NYC for four days. Again, great weather. Went to a broadway show, did a boat cruise, saw a Yankees game, went to a taping of Jimmy Fallon, and Leslie got a selfie with Sheinelle Jones.
And to close out the year we headed east to Texas, specifically Austin and San Antonio.
We booked an extended stay for a week in downtown Austin which offered us the benefit of cooking our own breakfast, keeping my beer chilled, and had a great rooftop view.
There were lots of football games happening that week, and there were plenty of sports bars to visit and checkout.
Leslie wanted to see a Spurs game so we spent two days in San Antonio. Did the Riverwalk, took a trolley tour of the town, skipped the Alamo (too pricey), saw the basketball game, and even a fireworks show.
Leslie convinced her daughter and her family to join us in Austin, so we spent another five days back in Austin, visiting the Zilker Park, taking a river boat ride, and state Capitol.
And for those that really care about what we did here are full videos broken into segments for easier viewing.
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