return to la bufadora

I took another trip to Ensenada this last weekend, this time with my parents, and driving the newly rejuvenated vanagon. A quite successful trip — visited most of the same places as last time, but this time camped at the camp that's just to the left of Zeppelin on the road to Kennedy's, which in turn is located on La Punta Banda, the mountain range that juts into the sea just south of Ensenada around the municipality of Maneadero. Now, of course, all the talk is of more ambitious Mexico adventures.

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Also check out the pictures from last time if you missed them.

a walk across america

They were proposing starting in Los Angeles when I piped up and volunteered that if the route began in San Francisco instead, I'd be willing to plan the route through California. ... We laid out a route about 265 miles long, designed to be traversed in twenty-one hiking days. ... We obtained permission to walk across the Bay Bridge, ... the first time this had ever been done. ... A group ranging from one to two hundred people hiked across California.

A decade later, my son Eric and his wife Ellen were recruited by the American Hiking Society and Backpacker magazine to scout the route of the American Discovery Trail, the first coast-to-coast trail. That route incorporates the one Helen and I scouted from Berkeley to Sacramento, a contribution that makde us proud.

— Glenn Seaborg, Adventures in the Atomic Age, p258-259.