Circling Left around the U.S.
A year of contra dancing, camping, and hiking
by Peggy Craft (whose heart was with Triangle Country Dancers even as her feet roamed)



H A P P Y
B I R T H D A Y
M O M

(See link below :-)


For December 22, 2009:
Cick here for a Happy Birthday card to my Mom!
Reminder: You can click on any photo to get into a slide show, but you can't easily navigate back to here...

This record of my trip has the most recent stuff at the top.
On most pages, you can click on any photo to get to a "slide show" of larger versions.

  • I'm back in Durham. The trip is over. Life is good.
    • I got a great teaching job via a Skype interview. (But having taught there some years ago surely helped.)
    • I bought a house in Durham, sight unseen, after my older daughter saw it online. (She did drive over to look, and also attended the inspection for me, so it wasn't quite as dramatic as all that.) The house is near the job that starts in August and even closer to my local and favorite aunt.

    Oh yes, I have pages still to create and upload - but not today :-)
  • For Sunday July 26: Happy Birthday Dad!
  • Sunday July 19, 2009: My great adventure has reached thend, as I used to call it when I needed such a variable in a computer program. Chilldown in Jerome, AZ was a lovely last dance weekend.
  • BACDS American Week: The best week of my trip! Camping in the Medocino redwoods and dancing to Tidal Wave + Notorious + Avant Gardeners with Dave Bartley... and Lisa G. + Linda L. + Chris B. calling. Incredible. Details later.
  • Lake Tahoe and Virginia City (yet TBDocumented)
  • Faultline Frolic in Santa Rosa, CA (a great dance weekend)
  • Yosemite National Park, CA [updated 08/06/09]
  • Shasta Dam, CA
  • Crater Lake, Oregon
  • Benham Falls near Bend, OR (June 2009)
  • Vancouver, BC at the end of May
  • Hike near logging activity
  • Two British Columbia Provential Parks
  • Teapot Hill in British Columbia
  • Seattle for NW Folk Life Festival
  • Mt. St. Helens
  • Mt. Rainier
  • Puget Sound
  • Wallace Falls State Park near Seattle
  • Chehalis Thousand Trails, Washington State, 5/10/09
  • Happy Mothers' Day!
  • May Day dance in Felton, CA
  • Raindance in Portland, Oregon
  • Seaside, Oregon
  • Pacific City Beach (Oregon) and some beach art
  • Lost Creek State Park, Oregon, and its beach, and close-ups there
  • Devils' Churn on CA coast (4/15/09)
  • Oregon Beach (near Florence, OR)
  • Trees of Mystery near Klamath, CA on Easter
  • Redwood Forest, Northern CA
  • Russian River 1000 Trails
  • Touristing in San Francisco
  • Route 1 again, driving north from Santa Barbara (3/31/09)
  • Santa Barbara
  • LONG hike in Los Padres National Park
  • Nice walk around Rancho Oso Campground
  • Rancho Oso Thousand Trails near Santa Barbara (late March 2009)
  • Route 1 driving South from San Francisco
  • Visiting Yosemite National Park with Dave
  • BACDS Spring Weekend at Monte Toyon in mid-March: great!
  • Visit to Stanford University with Dave
  • Between Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz: Los Prietos State Park and Pismo Beach
  • Very pretty hiking in the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara CA
  • Carpinteria State Beach
  • Pasadena CA for Fiddling Frogs with Contrazz! [A ***** weekend!]
  • Santa Monica Pier
  • Vasquez Rocks near LA
  • Getting to and being near San Diego CA for a dance on Feb 21
  • Traveling to dance in Phoenix, AZ on Feb 13 & 14
  • Traveling to dance in Tucson on February 7
    (the Riverwalk in San Antonio; McKittrick Canyon, TX; Carlsbad Cavern, NM; Deming, AZ)
  • The post office in Peggy, Texas!
  • The rest of Jan 2009: Visiting the Lorios in Brownsville, TX
    (South Padre Island, Mexico, Daniele's concert!)
  • 16thru25 Jan 09 Camping down to Brownsville, TX
  • 14&15 Jan 2009 Life in a swamp in Louisiana
  • 13 Jan A lovely one day visit to Florida
  • Holidays on the 2008/2009 border
  • Special Event: My camper rolls over to 123456 miles!
  • Column Too

    I like matrices, so here are lists...

    Number of unique daily visitors since Jan 2, 2009: