The vacation continues....

We've made it to San Jose. 12 hours of driving from the gorgeous Grand Canyon into California...across the Mojave Desert...up to Bakersfield and into San Jose.

Firstly, the Grand Canyon is so absolutely breathtaking I could never do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it confirms my belief in a Supreme Being. It's so rugged and colorful and majestic. Trying to capture it on film is really frustrating because the pictures just don't manage to really get the Canyon. The other fabulous part was seeing of the wildlife. We saw California Condors flying overhead larger than life. Elk with massive antlers were lying under the trees not 20 yards from the road when we were driving into the local town. Mountain goats ate their lunch right next to the path where we hiked. It was really amazing.

No cell phone, no computer....just the Canyon and it's wonders. I highly recommend it.

The drive today was something else, too. The landscape changes so drastically. Leaving the high desert with it's Ponderosa Pines and Junipers into the vast Mojave Desert (a mild 110 today)was quite an experience. The desert seemed to go on forever...vast miles of barren landscape...a few scraggly palms here and there. We stopped for lunch at in a small town where the 395 intersected with the road we were on. It all ran parallel to Route 66..the famous hwy that runs along the desert southwest. Finally we made the ascent into the Bakersfield area...and the desert was blissfully behind us. And finally into the bustling Silicon Valley where we reside tonight.

Tomorrow is my daughter's 11th birthday. We're going to the Great American theme park.

Hopefully there will be time for an update tomorrow.