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410--California: Death Valley, a Low Point
@ CherieSpotting     Apr 14 2008 - 12:36 PST
Cherie sitting in the middle of Badwater, Death Valley, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere.

Cherie sitting in the middle of Badwater, Death Valley, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere.

cherie writes: It may be the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, but Badwater isn’t all that bad. (But don’t drink the water!) Sure it’s hot in April, but Greg, Karem, Dean and I managed to gather some of the salt-crusted earth and build a small tribute (we called it salt art) to nature in the ninety degree heat.

As the sun set, we headed to Ubehebe Crater for a stroll around its lip. Also known as marr volcanoes, Ubehebe and the surrounding craters were formed about 3,000 years ago—which explains all their wrinkles! Enjoy these photos of Badwater and Ubehebe Crater taken from Death Valley, California.
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409--California: Death Valley--Dunes & Devils
@ CherieSpotting     Apr 08 2008 - 03:42 PST
Cherie and Greg on the salt cracked Devil's Golf Course in Death Valley, California.

Cherie and Greg on the salt cracked Devil's Golf Course in Death Valley, California.

cherie writes: Karem, Dean, Greg and I went to the Devil’s Golf Course to see if we could get a birdie. No birds there, just lots of crusty salt and a view of jagged white earth that seemed to go on forever. But we found a tiny salt cavern and tasted the salt of the earth (salty, as you might expect!)

Next we headed to a sea of sand and I climbed to the top of the highest dune in Mesquite Flat Dunes (I can tell you from experience that they aren’t flat.) Dean and Karem admired the blooming flowers while Greg sprawled out on a polygon cracked ancient lakebed. We ended the day exhausted (but hydrated!) Here are some photos from Death Valley National Park.
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399: California: 2007 Buccaneer Days at Catalina Island
@ Book & Movie Reviews     Oct 31 2007 - 01:24 PST
Cherie stuffed inside a treasure chest aboard the Hunter 40 "To the Max" at Buccaneer Days.

Cherie stuffed inside a treasure chest aboard the Hunter 40 "To the Max" at Buccaneer Days.

cherie writes: An estimated 4000 sailors swaggered on the Two Harbors beach in Catalina until the rum stopped flowing and the boats stopped rocking. Cannons fired, swords clashed, the grog flowed and the buccaneers boogied all in honor of Catalina's Buccaneer Days.

Buxom wenches tucked coins in their cleavage and called it a “treasure chest.” Pirates crossed their middle and index fingers (which is the sign for the letter “R” in sign-language) and said “Arr.”

One pirate carried a live rat in his arms and dressed the rodent up with a hat, ear-rings and a sword. His “Pi-rat” won the costume contest, beating out a contestant who dressed as an over-sized parrot (complete with a tiny pirate on his shoulder.)
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397--California: A Monster Thief
@ Site News     Sep 05 2007 - 09:43 PST
Karem, Hallie, Lisa and I with four officers and the Monster-Thief.

Karem, Hallie, Lisa and I with four officers and the Monster-Thief.

cherie writes: Karem, Lisa, Hallie and I returned from a 9-day Burning Man camping adventure. We thought we left the monsters behind in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, but who knew there would be one waiting for us when we got home.

Our drive home from Nevada began at 3:50 am, after watching an intricate wooden Temple burn on the desert playa. Packing by the light of the moon (and a few tired camping lanterns) we loaded up our sparkly clothes, silly hats, dusty bikes and stuffed them into our rented trailer. Delirious with the anticipation of our first shower in over a week, we headed home.

Sneaky: that’s what we thought we were being by waking up before dawn. But a 3.2 mile string of red tail-lights let us know that a few thousand other “Burners” shared the same idea as us: leave early and beat the traffic. It took us 94-minutes to drive the first three miles. Ironically were grateful for the one-mile-per-hour speed; last year it took many Burners over 6-hours to drive the same distance. When thirty-five thousand people try to get on a one-lane highway at the same time it creates one heck of a messy clot.
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395--California: Rancho Santa Fe Garden Sanctuary
@ CherieSpotting     Aug 16 2007 - 02:32 PST
Cherie in Tom & Kathy's garden. When your friends ask you to water their plants while they are away on vacation, you say yes!

Cherie in Tom & Kathy's garden. When your friends ask you to water their plants while they are away on vacation, you say yes!

cherie writes: When I went to Denmark to visit my Danish relatives, my cousin Liz asked me to show her some photos of my friend’s gardens in the United States. I take pictures of everything and anything, so why couldn’t I find any garden pictures? I don’t know why I’ve never photographed my friend’s gardens. It just seemed like a strange thing to do.

Then last week, my friends Tom and Kathy asked Greg and I to water their plants while they were away on vacation. Apparently my plant-watering skills are in greater demand than my photography skills these days.

Greg and I spent a week in Rancho Santa Fe, California lounging in the pool, running after chickens and picking fresh herbs and vegetables for the garden. The plants were well watered and Greg and I were well fed. When Tom came home I asked him: “Tom, have you ever had to evict a guest?” Enjoy these photos of Tom & Kathy’s garden sanctuary.
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392--California: Parachute included?
@ CherieSpotting     Jul 20 2007 - 08:45 PST
Greg and Cherie next to a home-built Long-EZ designed by Burt Rutan.

Greg and Cherie next to a home-built Long-EZ designed by Burt Rutan.

cherie writes: One day Greg asked me if I wanted to see the plane that he built. Imagine that your boyfriend builds a plane. Wouldn’t you like it to have a remote control? Wouldn’t you want to take his toy plane to the park and do remote-control loops with it over a lake and crash it into some kid’s kite? But what if your boyfriend (who normally builds computer networks) built a real plane and wanted you to get inside?

The line between brave and stupid gets a bit blurred here. If we land, I’m brave. If we crash, I’m stupid. Upon looking at the cockpit I could only laugh when I saw the plane was driven by a joystick. Only a guy could design a plane that maneuvers with controls just like his video-games at home. And there’s even a red button at the top of the plane’s joystick. When you press it you have to say: “We’re too close for missiles, let’s switch to guns.”

Being brave, I squeezed myself into Greg’s experimental plane and stared at a sign that read “Passenger Warning: this aircraft is amateur built and does not comply with Federal Safety Requirements for standard aircraft.”
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375--California: Mono Lake, Out of this World
@ CherieSpotting     Dec 12 2006 - 01:35 PST
Cherie at Mono Lake, California.

Cherie at Mono Lake, California.

cherie writes: Mono Lake has a sense of overwhelming eternity. It’s a place where daydreams are real, and the imagination runs wild. No itineraries are allowed here.

On the shores of Mono Lake you are trapped inside a vast enormity of uncovered history. Emancipated from the watery depths of the lake, strange tufas stand like rock from another world. Visitors escape into a realm of vastness where a prehistoric lake meets a modern horizon.

In its raw wildness, Mono Lake is overwhelming. Its vast saline enormity is charged with telling the story of the streams diverted to provide water for Southern California.
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