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Karin#39;s Great Grand-Mother Brita Crosses Over to the Other Side

Sam is Brita's only Grandson and having spent almost every summer together from Childhood to Youth -- an incredible closeness and love has emerged. Brita was so overjoyed when she was able to briefly share in her Great Grandchild's life. Even though they did not spend a lot of time together (2 weeks) Brita spoke to Sam several times a week about Karin and was part of her development each step of the way (for all of Karin's life). Thanks to the Internet Brita was also able to surf the net (yes at 90 years old) and look at Karin's latest photos and videos.

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California and Vegas

One of our favorites so far. The landscape is so unique. Utah was next on the list and we took good use of an extra day we had and took in Arches National Park near Moab on a hot August afternoon. We made our way South again crossing the Colorado river from time to time to enjoy it’s mark on the landscape with in Glen Canyon and later the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We agreed after making our way to Bryce Canyon that we had actually been more impressed by the landscape we had seen along the road that day coming from Capitol Reef National Park. Soon after we met up with Julie’s parents near Kanab, Utah and visited the Grand Canyon in the same afternoon. The next day we all really enjoyed a few hours of easy walking in the Zion National Park before leaving for Vegas.

It was a very hot and fast ride to Las Vegas where, with the help of the GPS, we managed to find our cheap hotel near the base of Fremont street which turned out to be very nice. Feelings we mixed after coming from the wild lands of Southern Utah but accepting as we took the visit with a grain of We felt like we were on Marssalt. It was a feat of human engineering but I must say I was happy to be leaving town towards Death Valley of all places that saturday. As you might guess the temperature was around 110 degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of the afternoon as we cruised lightly along the blistering black tarmac. The landscape was similar to that of the moon it seemed, a sort of majestic opening of the oven door in your face. We coasted down the pass to the west towards the Sierra Nevada where all the sudden we were staring at the back of Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the continental USA only 2 hours before having been at negative 150 feet of elevation. Yosemite was appreciated for it’s higher, cooler air the next day and again thanked Obama for the second free National Park entry that weekend. The next day was a warm drop down into the valley and spent some time sorting out some issues of food, money, and a hotel for Julie’s parents in Stockton. We pushed on that afternoon to do a quick back roads tour of Napa and Sonoma Valley before parting ways for Julie and I to visit It was a very warm afternoon but the day was full of spectacular landscape and formations. Britta in Winters. Britta was a friend from our Cape Town days who we were excited to see again. Britta was very sweet to us and encouraged us to return late the next week for the local Earthquake festival.

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