Queen Mary at Long Beach, Venice Beach and Santa Monica

 Long Beach downtown LA ,look at the smog it was shocking, picture taken from the Queen Mary.

Down the long long passage way almost had to take a cut lunch

The Queen Mary has been docked and has been a hotel for the past 40 years. She was build in 1936 and sold by England to the US in 1968.

 Beautiful art deco interior of one of the bars on the QM.

 Our State room, on the Q Mary, it was very spacious.

Venice Beach graffiti

 Lots of weirdos at Venice Beach

 Had to throw just one last sunset in for good measure this one from Venice Beach

getting late at Santa Monica Pier, the fog is rolling in.

Last photo on our holiday in America, we covered Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado,New Nexico and Califonia. God Bless America. thanks.

Laguna Beach and Crystal Cove

 A character that we met at Laguna Beach, had Lee grooving to Black Betty bam alam.......woh woh Black Betty

 Another beautiul sunset or two or 700 !!!!!!! Sorry



just a few of the derelict  beach houses at Crystal Cove waiting for restoration.



Well blow me down it aint another sunset, its me at Crystal Cove, on the beach in boots,  a beautiful little beach resort, it has been taken over by the state and heritage listed, they are restoring the few dozen old beach shacks, its pretty cheap to stay here but you have to book 6 months ahead, we would love to stay here great little place. Had breaky here.

Balboa Park, San Diego

At  Embucadero San Diego, famous "KISS" at the end of world war 2.

Hard Rock Cafe, Gaslamp historic district downtown San Diego

Artist Village at Balboa Park, by wholesale from the artists, very quaint place.

We had a look at the Toulouse Lautrec's art display at Balboa Park

we spend a couple of days checking out San Diego before we park the RV up at Louis and Gretchens, we have a great meal at Louis's choice Veitnamese restraunt,great meal.
On our last night we cook Lee's famous ledgendary Chicken and Prunes, Louis and Gretchen are impressed.
our last couple of days, we hire a car and head off towards Los Angeles and home. Boo Hoo

San Diego

Weather this morning was still terrible until we get down into San Diego
, as we get lower down in altitude its starts to clear.

Very pretty coming into town.

We catch up with our friends Gretchen and Lois, that we met at Red Canyon at the begining of our trip, they take us on a siteseeing tour of Coronardo Island and the Torrey Pines golf course. 


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The Del famous hotel on Coronardo Island..

Lee taking a putt on the Torrey Pines putting green.

Bridge over to Coronardo Island

Tayler ( daughter of Louis and Gretchen)  at La Jolla

Sunset at La Jolla

  Bay seals at La Jolla, lots of issues with some people wanting the seals off the beach, what rubbish, the seals have more rights to the beach than us humans.

.We stay at Campland on the Bay for a couple of days and visit Balboa Park and it many gallerys and museums, the maritime museum, and the Gas Lamp district.

Tucson to San Diego

Lee downtown 4th street Old Tuscon

De Grazia Gallery out side of Tuscon

On the way to San Diego, massive feed lots for milking cows they never graze on growing grass, the field infront is cultivated and cut and fed to the millions of cows, these feed lots went for miles and miles.



the dunes around Gordons Well on the way to San Diego , where dune buggy

enthusiasts by the thousands gather



Desert landscapes constantly changing.



Devils Canyon just above San Deigo, another suprise, desert ....rocks....tropical....

We spent the night in the hills above San Diego,very windy area, lots of wind generators. Without a word of a lie it was the worst night of our entire trip, it was like being in the antartic, it was blizzard conditions,we thought the RV was going to be blown over. SCARY STUFF