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Backroads - Close to home

All who have known me for any length of time - know that I get antsy when I don't travel fairly frequently. I find I don't need to go very far. I don't even need a long period of time away. But there is an element within me that seeks the unexplored path or road - and that feels caged if I don't get out and allow that to happen.

Fortunately - we who live in the San Francisco Bay Area are surrounded by some of the most beautiful and varied travel possibilities on the planet. And my travel page for this month reflects this. A short trip down to Santa Cruz provides ample proof of this. Here are three images take at the Pier, followed by 3 more taken along the way home.

{NOTE} If you missed the travel page about my trip to Southern California to close out the end of 2004 - You will find a link to view it at the bottom of this page. There are a number of good photographs therein.

Views of the

Santa Cruz Pier

(TOP) One of the kayaks stored for winter gets 'protection' from a dented and fractured road hazard marker.

(RIGHT) The streetlights, benches, and the pier itself - seem to pierce the infinity of the sea beyond.

(BELOW) Another black & white photograph of the pier and the sea and the beach.

Traveling back from Santa Cruz -

The first photograph is of a hillside pasture just north of the little town of Davenport.

Next, I stopped alongside the Pigeon Point Lighthouse. Here the clouds above and around the sides of the structure provide amazing framing for this image.

And finally, I found myself in the small coastal town of Pescadero - where I came upon this row of bare trees.

then home...