After sighting the Pacific, we visited Monterey, CA and the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Friday, June 11
The Pacific
The ocean was sighted by Europeans early in the 16th century, first by the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa who crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and named it as Mar del Sur (South Sea), and then by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who sailed the Pacific during his circumnavigation from 1519 to 1522.
In June of 2010 the ocean was sighted by the American traveler Ralph Klingbeil who crossed from the island of Cannonicut in the Narragansett Bay north of the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Klingbeil had traveled some 3700 miles in a rented Toyota Yarus.
Thursday, June 10
Paris in Palo Alto
After all that technology, we went to Stanford and spent some pleasant time in the Rodin Sculpture Garden at the Cantor Arts Center.
As we walked around, Ralph and I remembered our 2008 New Year’s visit to Paris with Barbara and Jonathan.
Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2
We made another stop on the “Scientific Traveler Tour” this afternoon at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2 was demonstrated for us four relics from before the personal computer age.
There were a few other relics in the museum…
A Gold Star for the first daughter or son-in-law to guess what is hanging from this man’s belt!
Wednesday, June 9
Dinner with the Stusnicks and Checks
We celebrated arriving in San Jose by having dinner with Eric and Maddy and their son and daughter-in-law Harold and Jenny…
From Yosemite to San Jose
Driving from the Wawona Hotel to San Jose is to pass thru more than a century and some beautiful country.
A Walk to the Ahwahnee
On our last day in Yosemite, we walked from the shuttle stop at the Yosemite Lodge to the Ahwahnee.
View A walk in a larger map
Only later did we find out that we missed an opportunity to add another wildlife to our life list … we were in mountain lion country! We had lunch at the Ahwahnee, a 1927 grand lodge, in what looked like to me. like Frank Lloyd Wright style.
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