Trip to Jack London State Park

May 25, 2011

Trip to Jack London State Park

Sonoma County

Rainy day today so we hung around home all morning. I revised the entire illustrated text version of the blog. I have been writing the blog entries in Word and pasting them into the blog.  I get the images ready and add them to the blog. Once the images are in the blog I copy them and paste them into the Word version. My plan is to print all the blog entries as document. Today I edited the entire print version completed thus far.

This afternoon Judy, Carol and I visited the Jack London State Park. The park encompasses the land Jack London purchased to build a home and develop a farm.

He planted vineyard, experimented with spineless cactus for cattle feed, and practiced innovative approaches to farming.

After his death at a young age his widow built a large stone house as her home. The building now houses a Jack London museum. I was familiar with some of London’s books and poetry but had no idea he was so prolific. After visiting the museum we hiked to a lake he had constructed as a source of water for the farm.

The trail to the lake climbed through a lovely Redwood forest. It was a very pleasant walk although the lake was disappointing because it was essentially dried up and  covered with a layer of reddish vegetation.

On our way home we bought two large boxes of fresh strawberries. As I was in the back seat with the berries, a fair number of them disappeared before we reached home.

Tomorrow we will drive to Jacksonville, Oregon - about a six hour trip. This will be our last visit with friends and then it’s back to motels and camping. When we leave Jacksonville, we will have a little more than two weeks of traveling before we return to York.  Where has the time gone?

 

Sonoma County scenery

 more Northern California Scenery

and more of the same

The house built by Jack London's wife after his death. She named it

the house wth the "Happy Walls"

 Oak Tree in front of the house where Jack London died.

                                                                                         One of several stone barns built by Jack London.

Jack London's vineyard