 Taken just PRIOR to the California trip - Red Square on the University of Washington campus while there for an NSF proposal site visit. |
 Edge of Red Square, UW |
 Anacapa Island of the Channel Islands, taken from the window of my United Air flight to California. |
 My fancy hotel room service, the Island Hotel, Newport Beach |
 Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering, UC-Irvine campus. |
 Lovely hillside on the way to an NRC committee dinner |
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 A group of some of the smartest geographers you'll ever meet. NRC Strategic Directions in Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade. |
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 Snoopy headquarters just outside the park entrance |
 Inside the headquarters. A Snoopy groupie's dream come true! |
 More Peanuts loot inside the headquarters ... |
 ... and still more! |
 ... and more! |
 Display of Snoopy's siblings outside the headquarters |
 ... another display |
 Entrance to Knotts Berry Farm |
 Dawn finally makes it back to Camp Snoopy! |
 Camp Snoopy with friend Tim |
 Camp Snoopy |
 Giant romper Snoopy |
 Knotts Berry Farm's newest roller coaster, The Pony Express, where you ride on TOP of a horse on a roller coaster track. It had just opened at the part the week prior. |
 Ghost Town Calico railroad, a real train from the 1800s. |
 Super train fan Tim |
 One of the "outlaws" who held up the train. |
 Wild west show |
 Wild west show |
 The GhostRider, one of the longest and tallest wooden roller coasters in the world. This old thing beats you to death in your seat! |
 More to my liking was the super modern Silver Bullet, an "inverted" roller coaster where you hang BELOW the track! See also this link. |
 I was in the car approximately 4 spaces from the right! Whoo-hooo! |