January 25, 2017

Harsh California rainstorm brings some unexpected beauty

This is a short little video my wife made, but I thought some of you might appreciate viewing the natural beauty an ugly rainstorm can bring!

January 19, 2017

Lost and Abandoned Seaside Resort Casa Sirena and The Lobster Trap

The once elegant and beautiful Lobster Trap Restaurant in Oxnard, California is closed and left abandoned on the Channel Islands Harbor Marina. Next door, its sister building, the Casa Sirena Hotel is also slowly deteriorating.

The dining tables still has white tablecloths and salt and pepper shakers on it. It looks as if everyone had left in a hurry and never came back. Chairs are scattered about with some old festive decorations still hanging from the chandeliers in one of the event rooms. It was such an eerie scene.

January 13, 2017

Our Magical Mystery Winery Tour in Roseburg, Oregon

One of the highlights of our recent Oregon trip was getting together with relatives to go wine tasting! My sister Mac had won a prize at work the previous year for herself and guests to visit three different wineries (all of them a mystery to be revealed when we arrived) in the Umpqua Valley in Oregon for tasting and lunch. So since there were so many relatives coming up to see my other sister (for the record, I have three sisters, all drinking wine in the video!) get married, Mac decided to invite many of us as her guests!

January 5, 2017

410,000 gallons a minute - the natural power & beauty of the Rogue Gorge!

Hidden from the 62 Highway on the way to Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, there is a mighty powerful gorge rushing by.

Even before starting out on the 3.5 mile Rogue Gorge Trail, you could hear the sounds of the river in the distance. You can feel the incredible power of the rushing water and hear it churning through the rocks - enough water to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool each minute!

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