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Hey MAGA Morons: Trump's High Prices on Jet Fuel Caused Spirit Airlines to Go Out of Business. 17,000 People Lost Their Jobs... And Delta Airlines has decided to stop serving food and drink on flights to save money... How is that Making America Great?

 Trump: Total Failure 
----> His Economy is a Disaster <----
Remember: 
TRUMP'S A LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!

Trump total failure



"His Big Speech" proves that he's totally lost contact with reality...  He's Got TDS: Trump's Derangement Syndrome: He's Totally Deranged! It's 25th Amendment Time... 

Did you ever wonder... Who Will Do the Work? If Trump stops Immigration from the Third World... Many jobs will go unfilled... Caregivers at the Old Folks Home, Construction Laborers, Farm Workers, Gardeners, Car Washers... Just another idiotic decision by Mad King Donald.

Trump's Economy is a Disaster. Higher Prices on Everything. Massive Job Layoffs. Remember: TRUMP: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!



Did you know that Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington DC was a horrible mistake. And now three people are in the hospital due to Trump's pointless actions... One dead...
The Crime Rate in Washington DC is lower than it's been in years... And everybody was getting along Just like normal... But then Trump I had to freak out and send over 2,000 National Guard troops... Who basically had nothing to do so they raked leaves and picked up garbage and did gardening... Just to keep them busy... That's what you get when you elect a Mad Man!

The man that did the shooting, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, worked for the CIA in Afghanistan. He was granted Asylum in 2025 by Trump.  As "everyone knows" - there is no such thing as an Ex CIA agent... He just became part of a Sleeper Cell in Washington State... And then he was activated... And drove across the country to perform a "Manchurian Candidate" style of REDRUM... Or maybe not! Maybe he was a lone gun nut... It's likely that we will never know... 

While Trump has been a Disaster for Women and Minorities... As a White Man, things have been working out pretty good! The Stock Market keeps going up... And a lot of people are leaving the USA and going back to their Third World Hell Holes...  Adios! Vaya Con Dios! GTFO!

wall cartoon

I spent the last 20 years of my life living in Eureka & Arcata, California... Almost everyone who lives there is a White Person... And it's a Wonderful Place to Live... I spent about 30 years living in San Jose, California... And the quality of life there is Just Not as Good... It's Especially Bad on the East Side... Where most of the people are Hispanic...

And I lived in Washington, DC for 12 years... I finally escaped... At one point in my life I was working at Domino's Pizza delivering pies... And the Crack Crazies were Murdering Delivery Drivers... So I thought to myself... I'll stop delivering here in the Ghetto and go deliver in Mount Vernon, Virginia... And that worked great for about a year... And then I just got in my car one day and drove back home to San Jose... 

I also lived in Chico, California... It's another town where almost everyone is White and there's a College at the Center of Town... I owned a Bicycle... And it was super! I could ride to every place I wanted to go in Chico... But if I wanted to go to Paradise I had to find somebody with a car...

Here's an event that happened while I was living in San Jose... I was on the city bus and two teenage Hispanic men started tagging the inside of the bus... They had cans of spray paint and they were spraying their gang insignia... Well, spray paint has a poisonous odor... And so at the very next bus stop about half the people got off... Including a teenage Hispanic woman with a baby... Things like that just don't happen in Eureka & Arcada... Because we just don't have Hispanic people... I've heard it said that multiculturalism is wonderful but that is not been my experience... 

I can certainly relate to why people want to leave Mexico and come to the USA. I have actually been to Mexico. I went there in 1975 and was horrified by The Starving Children selling Chiclets... Basically begging for food... And as white man, they knew there was a possibility to get money... And everywhere I went I was surrounded by Starving Children...  So... I never went back... If I'm going someplace on vacation I want to have fun... Not experience "Culture Shock" --- I've gone to Canada many times! It's great!

Over-breeding has resulted in Starving Children... And over-breeding is part of the Catholic religion... "Be fruitful and multiply" - Maybe that made sense a thousand years ago but now it's idiotic... We ought to make birth control and abortion free and legal worldwide... 


Dec. 27, 2023: A caravan of thousands of migrants continued its dayslong march through Mexico toward the southern U.S. border... The Caravans of migrants have stopped now that Trump is president... His policy of "Get the F*ck Out" seems to be working!

the Caravans of migrants have stopped now that Trump is president... His policy of "get the fuck out" seems to be working!

the Caravans of migrants have stopped now that Trump is president... His policy of "get the fuck out" seems to be working!

EXCELLENT BORDER PLAN: A FREE One Way Bus Ride Right Back to Mexico! FREE Airplane Rides to Venezuela! Afghanistan! China! Or Anywhere! IT WORKED GREAT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM HAITI...  They got a one-way airplane ride right back to Haiti!

and we need Deportation for people that overstay their Student Visas! Like Melania Trump and her "Chain Migration" Parents. She had a "Genius" Visa? What WAS her Genius Skill??? Great looking naked pictures??? 

There was a time Years ago when it Made Sense to Allow People into the USA... BUT... That time has Passed... In the 1970s we brought Computer Engineers and Programmers into Silicon Valley... I worked at a Place where half of the employees were from Foreign Countries... but NOW... Massive High Tech Layoffs... NO NEED for People To Come Here... 

Gentrification solved the East Palo Alto murder problem...
In 1992, East Palo Alto, CA was dubbed the “murder capital” of the U.S., with 42 murders in its 2.5 square miles — a per capita rate higher than that of any other city of any size. In 2023, according to East Palo Alto Police Department statistics released last week, the turnaround seemed complete: zero homicides.

One thing for Certain, We Must Make Sure That NO ONE from Gaza Comes Here. NONE! Every time We Lose a War We get a Bunch of Refugees from that country... Remember the Vietnamese Boat People? The Hmong? Afghans? Cambodians?

    
The Statue of Liberty Poem made a lot of sense in 1883... At that time, immigrants to the USA were primarily from Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Scandinavia... When she wrote that poem she wasn't talking about "THIRD WORLDERS"... And now you know the rest of the story...

When was the Last Time You Said: "I Sure Wish there Were more Refugees from a Third World Hellhole around here... You can never find a Refugee from a Third World Hellhole When you really need one!" 



an Alternative Solution:

Lets HIRE IMMIGRANTS and Collect Social Security and Income Tax from Them. While Republicans are FREAKING OUT about the Border... the Solution is Obvious...

and Immigrants would do all those Jobs that Americans Refuse!






and That would Solve the Problem of Illegal Immigration... Simply Legalize it and Put 'em to Work! Everybody Wins!


The Way Social Security Works is: Young People Pay IN and Old People Take OUT... It Requires a Balance Between Young and Old... and the Baby Boom Generation in America DID NOT Have Enough Children... However, Foreigners Have Been Breeding Like CRAZY!



Trump's Failed Wall...
People Walk Around the End.


I wrote to my Representative in the US House Kevin Kiley and Said: Instead of wasting money building a wall... Let's EMPLOY Immigrants to do all those Jobs Americans Refuse... I Live at an Old Folks Home and ALL of our Care Givers are Immigrants... ALL of the Gardeners are Immigrants... This is an OBVIOUS SOLUTION! Why Not WAKE UP AND NOTICE REALITY? Sure... tRUMP Hates Mexicans and Blacks and Gays and Women but... His Ideas SUCK!

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

I Wonder: 

Does tRUMP's Mar-A-Loser Club Employ Illegal Aliens? Governor Ron Death Santa Wants to Know!


tRUMP has a Long History of Employing Illegal Aliens... They Work Cheaper and if They Complain, He Can Threaten to Deport 'em Right Back to the Third World Hellhole They Came From!






With Florida’s immigration law set to start July 1, critics say it will impact non-immigrants as well...
Nearly 400,000 undocumented immigrants work in six key statewide industries, study says...
https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/06/28/with-fls-immigration-law-set-to-start-july-1-critics-say-it-will-impact-non-immigrants-as-well/


Remember: Share Memes on Many Social Media Websites... It's a FREE Way to Campaign in Favor of Democracy and Freedom! Let's Beat tRUMP Like a Pinata in 2024...


Trump's Wall Failed. How Can We Fix the Disaster He Left Us? The Children in Cages Are STILL THERE and More People Come into the USA Than EVER!

Family Separation and Detention...
https://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/governmental_legislative_work/priorities_policy/immigration/familyseparation/

In April 2018, Attorney General Sessions announced a “zero tolerance” policy under which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will refer all migrants who enter the U.S. without authorization to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal prosecution. This policy expands “Operation Streamline,” a program which began in 2005.

As a result of the zero tolerance policy, the government separated more than 2000 children from their parents at the border during the period of mid-April to June. Since children cannot be held in criminal detention, the children are designated as “unaccompanied alien children” and placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). ORR places the children in shelters until they are released to a family member, guardian, or foster family.



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Family detention is not the answer to family separation. It's a failure and a disgrace. Asylum seekers are fleeing chilling violence and threats. They deserve help, not inhumane, sometimes terrifying treatment at family detention centers.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/23/family-detention-centers-no-remedy-separated-families-column/796328002/

and then on Faceborg I read...
There are plenty of people in the Trump administration who are deplorable, but Stephen Miller belongs in a category of his own. Others are corrupt, incompetent, or chasing fame. Miller is driven by an ideology so extreme that cruelty becomes it's own reward. He is not a hanger-on or a background aide. He is the engine. While Trump rants and gestures, Miller ensures that hatred is converted into binding federal policy. If Trump provides the chaos, Miller provides the direction.
Miller's history makes it impossible to pretend any of this is accidental. Long before the White House, he built a career on resentment politics and a fixation on immigration. Inside the administration, first hand accounts consistently point to Miller as the central driver behind the Muslim bans, family separation, mass detention, and the systematic dismantling of asylum protection. He pushes agencies to go further, faster, and harsher...even after being warned policies were unlawful, even after being told children would suffer lasting trauma. This isn't a failure of governance. It's governance by punishment. The suffering is intentional, because fear is the product.
What makes Stephen Miller especially dangerous is that immigrants were never the end goal...they are the test case. Under his influence, the government normalizes raids, indefinite detention, and the idea that constitutional rights are conditional. Communities are terrorized, due process is hallowed out, and state violence is treated as a political tool. Miller does not merely reflect Trumpism, he makes it into something colder, more disciplined, and more enduring than Trump himself.
If there is any justice left in the world, history will not treat Stephen Miller as a "controversial adviser" or a footnote to Trump's excesses. He will be named for what he is, a central architect of policies that inflicted widespread, deliberate harm on civilian population. And if accountability ever means more than words, then Stephen Miller...along with others who enabled and enforced this cruelty, will face judgment for crimes against humanity. Anything less confirms the most dangerous lesson of all...that power can brutalize the innocent and walk away untouched.
Never stop demanding more my brothers and sisters
Elections have consequences

MAGA is having a full-on toddler tantrum because some hipster coffee shops and breweries in Minneapolis are slapping "NO ICE SERVED HERE" signs in their windows like it's the new "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" rule. And the meltdown? Chef's kiss levels of delicious irony.
These are the same people who spent YEARS screaming from the rooftops: "Businesses have RIGHTS! They shouldn't be FORCED to bake cakes or design websites for people whose lifestyles offend their delicate sensibilities! First Amendment! Religious freedom! SCOTUS said so in 303 Creative! WOOHOO!"
They popped champagne when the Supreme Court basically gave a golden high-five to any creative business owner who wanted to say, "Sorry, my deeply held beliefs mean I can't serve you." They called it liberty. They called it winning. They called anyone who disagreed a communist tyrant.
Fast-forward to 2026: ICE agents are rolling through Minneapolis like it's a Call of Duty map: smashing car windows, detaining folks, tragic shootings (RIP Renee Good and others caught in the crossfire), schools locking down, businesses bleeding customers because nobody wants to shop next to masked feds with guns.
And now? Local spots are like, "Nah, bro. No warrant? No latte. No judicial signature? No craft IPA. Private property, baby, your rules, remember?"
And suddenly the same crowd that cheered "let bakers be bakers" is clutching their pearls: "This is DISCRIMINATION! Boycott these woke fascists! How DARE they refuse service to hardworking law enforcement!" Ted Nugent's out here funding DoorDash for ICE like it's a GoFundMe for persecuted heroes. Influencers are filming themselves getting turned away at Hilton desks, crying into their phones about "the rule of law" while conveniently forgetting they spent half a decade arguing the exact opposite.
Bro.
You literally sued for the constitutional right to tell certain people "no thanks" based on your beliefs. You won! You got the green light from the highest court in the land! And now that the shoe is on the other foot...except this time it's not about who someone loves, it's about who someone works for...you're losing your minds? You're melting down harder than a snowman in a sauna?
This is peak 2026 energy. You asked for businesses to have the freedom to discriminate on principle. You got it. Now businesses are using that freedom to say, "Principle: We don't vibe with masked dudes raiding our neighborhoods and shooting unarmed locals. Door's that way." And you're mad? Cry me a river of Freedom Fries, my dudes.
You can't have it both ways. Either private businesses get to say "no" when it offends their conscience... or they don't. Pick a lane. Because right now, the only thing melting faster than your outrage is your credibility.
Keep seething. The popcorn's on me.

Fun Things to do in Eureka and Arcata California - The Tallest Trees, The Finest Weed, Humboldt State University and SIX, Count 'em SIX Rivers... On Highway 101 Near Oregon... SAMBA!

Humboldt State University Samba Parade Band performing Live On Campus in Arcata, California
Samba Parade at Humboldt State University


My Brother and I at the Old Fisherman Statue in Eureka, CA
My Brother and I at Woodley Island Marina in front of
The Maritime Memorial for Sailors Lost at Sea.

The Madaket was a ferry boat that retired when they built the bridge to Samoa... Now it has narrated cruises exploring Humboldt Bay... The captain tells us the history of what we see.

Bliss Couple standing in the Bow of the Madaket
Bliss Couple standing in the Bow of the Madaket

Madaket Ferry Humboldt Bay
Scenes photographed from the boat...
Arkley House on Indian Island - Humboldt Bay

Arkley House on Indian Island - Humboldt Bay

Arkley House on Indian Island - Humboldt Bay
We discovered a "secret" beach in Fairhaven that no one ever goes to on a boatride. As we passed Fairhaven on the North Jetty, I saw the beach and a road... later I looked it up on Google Maps and figured out how to get there. We were all alone except for a man in a kayak cruising by.

Other places to visit:
The North Jetty itself. Bring sensible shoes so we can walk to the end where the dolos are... be aware that sometimes the waves are so large that it would be dangerous to walk on the jetty... but you can watch from the top of the sand dunes.


Giles by the Bay restaurant in King Salmon. It is at the end of the small peninsula that is right next to our house. The restaurant is not spectacular but I often park there to walk around and look at the house, bay, boats... There is a good swimming/wading beach there. In the afternoons in the summer the water is warm enough to swim in... It's a bay... The Ocean is simply too cold.

Trinidad: Pier, Beach and the fabulous restaurant. There is a marine life museum and classrooms from Humboldt State. A great trip as they have working example of the Hydrogen Fuel Cells invented at Schatz Laboratory HSU. They are participating in radioactivity monitoring from Fukushima. In co-operation with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
(Take the Trinidad exit off of Hwy 101, head west on Main St., turn left on Trinity St., right on Edwards St., and right on Ewing St. as the road veers left.)

I looked at both active tree-sit ecology actions. Too long of a hike to get to where they are... and in my humble opinion... How can I really get excited about protesting logging way off in the woods? It is delicate balance between providing boards for construction and saving the trees... This ecology action does not motivate me.

Mattole: There is a great drive to the end of the road... but... it's trespassing for a mile or so... and that's too far. The drive goes from the Avenue of the Giants towards the Mattole river and The Lost Coast... Ending in Victorian Ferndale. This is a road that is NOT visible on Google Streetview.  Bull Creek Flats Road... in Humboldt Redwoods State Park... to Mattole road and the town of Honeydew... Out there is a Sobriety Retreat on top of a mountain with a giant cross made from two large trees... I took a picture there and captured the spirit of that moment... close to the clouds in a big wind...

The other Tree-Sit is at Strawberry Rock near Trinidad. Take the Trinidad exit and instead of turning left and going to Trinidad, go straight  ahead at the end of the off ramp and follow the Frontage road that parallels Highway 101 all the way to the end... That's where the trail starts... Link to a map.


Mount Saint Mercy Retreat
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Here in Eureka, CA there is a zoo in the middle of a redwood forest. There are wild bears that live in the forest and there are bears in the cages at the zoo... If someone would just let the caged bears go they could live in the woods with the other bears... unless they have been so institutionalized by convict life that they can't survive outside of prison. Sequoia Park Zoo.


Where are the really great parties? 
Free and Wonderful Events? 
Please add your favorites to Comments section...
I would like to promote events that are free and wonderful. For Example: The Rainbow Gathering, Kinetic Sculpture Race, North Country Fair and Humboldt Folklife Festival. All we need to know is a date and a location. Please share info and I'll blog the fun things to do. If you know of an event, please comment or email me... gregvan@yahoo.com Thanks.... Here is a Link to What I've Collected So Far!






My College Painting Class on a Field Trip to Woodley Island Marina.
We took our easels and paints and created ART.

Free Concerts On HSU Campus at Noon by the Clock Tower.




"Jammers League" every performance had different players
This is a historic train in Scotia, California. A beautiful town completely owned by MAXXAM. [until they went bankrupt] Sort of like a stage set, it is entirely built of redwood lumber with columns made from entire trees with the bark intact. Come visit sometime and be sure to go on the factory tour. It is the largest building in California. MAXXAM did a corporate raider takeover using Michael Milken junk bonds and is proceeding to cut down old growth redwood as fast as possible and take all the profit and move it to Texas. After all the profitable trees are gone then it's time for bankruptcy... Just like they did with Kaiser Aluminum. and that's exactly what they did... now it's all owned by the Fisher Family [most famous for The Gap clothing stores]

Kinetic Sculpture Race. June Moxon's Cat








My Truck and the Magic Bus
near Lolita, CA


These pictures were taken behind the Bayshore Shopping Mall. Where there is a huge abandoned building that has been decorated by grafitti artists... It made me think of the CyberPunk science fiction novels by William Gibson where all the action takes place in San Francisco after the collapse of western civilization due to lack of oil. These machines would fit perfectly because they are entirely bicycle powered...


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Other Journeys

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Virtual Journey: Canada Tourist Guide & Autobiography. We Went on our Honeymoon to Vancouver, BC. We Rode a Bicycle built for Two in Stanley Park... and Many More Wonderful Places to Visit.


Virtual Journey: Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad - Visit Northern California's Coast. We Have Our Own Little World Here Behind The Redwood Curtain! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/eureka-arcata-trinidad.html


Virtual Journey: Trinity Alps, CA, USA - Drive the Bigfoot Highway (299) From Arcata on the Coast to Redding in the Central Valley. White Water Rafting! Gold Rush Ghost Towns!


Virtual Journey: to the Star Wars Flying Motorcycles Redwood Forest on Hwy 36 in Remote Humboldt County, CA, USA - and the Bridgeville UFO Festival, The Town of Mad River. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/virtual-journey-hwy-36-remote-humboldt.html


Virtual Journey: Lost Coast, CA, USA on Highway 211 - From Victorian Ferndale to The Beach, the Mountains of Mateel to the Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-virtual-drive-thru-remote-humboldt.html


Virtual Journey to San Francisco - Boat Ride on the Red and White Fleet. Under the Golden Gate Bridge and Around Alcatraz Island... and MORE!

Virtual Journey: The Smithsonian and Washington DC. Instead of Buying Gasoline and Driving There, Take this Magic Trip Instead! A Guided Tour to the Places My Family Wanted to See... 

Photographs of Elfin Glen Gift Shop - Chainsaw Carvings of Redwood Trees - on Highway 101 Just South Of Eureka in Northern California - and Pictures of Antique Logging Equipment at the Timber Heritage Association Show

Gift Shop Sign Elfin Glen
on Highway 101 in Northern California
Eagle Sculpture
Eagle and Bear
Bear Chainsaw Carving
Seahorse
Sculptures of Lumberjacks Climbing a tree.


Photographs of Antique Logging Equipment in Eureka, California - Steam Driven Machines used in the Timber Industry. Including the Dolbeer Steam Donkey.

An Exhibit by the Timber Heritage Association

https://timberheritage.org/
Antique Logging Equipment Show in Eureka, CA - photograph - Redwood Acres Fair Ground - gvan42
Antique Tractor used to Haul Logs

Antique Logging Equipment Show in Eureka, CA - photograph - Redwood Acres Fair Ground - gvan42
Buffalo Springfield Paving Machine
The Band Named Themselves After a Tractor...
I Guess That Made Sense in the Sixties...


Antique Logging Equipment Show in Eureka, CA - photograph - Redwood Acres Fair Ground - gvan42
Machine designed to Pick Up a Log


Antique Logging Equipment Show in Eureka, CA - photograph - Redwood Acres Fair Ground - gvan42
Chopping Competition - Hand Ax


Antique Logging Equipment Show in Eureka, CA - photograph - Redwood Acres Fair Ground - gvan42
Dolbeer Steam Donkey
a Machine designed to haul logs out of the forest
replaced animal power


Antique Logging Equipment Show in Eureka, CA - photograph - Redwood Acres Fair Ground - gvan42
Steam Train used to haul logs


Antique Logging Equipment Show in Eureka, CA - photograph - Redwood Acres Fair Ground - gvan42
Dolbeer Steam Donkey
Let's use The Bark from Redwood Trees to Prevent Weeds instead of RoundUP! We use Bark in our garden and it works great. AND! It doesn't kill people... It's a One Time Cost for the Farmer and the Money is Kept within the State of California... Currently, a Giant Barge of Redwood Bark and wood chips Leaves Eureka, California Every Week headed for China... We also ship entire logs... They don't want the logs sawed up into boards because they have their own sawmills... and it's cheaper to employ Chinese Slaves to do the Work. 

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Farmers have to pay for RoundUP every year and The Costs of all those Lawsuits MUST be passed on to the Farmers and the people that buy the Food. AND! We Eat That Poison! We could have healthier Food if we just used Redwood Bark and Wood Chips to Prevent Weeds. 


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BIOMASS Electric Power Plants Could Dispose of the Millions of Dead Trees in California that are a Fire Hazard. Before we have another Disastrous Wildfire like we had in Paradise last summer, we could remove the fuel from the forests and use it to generate electricity. 

"The number of biomass plants, another option for disposing of trees, has fallen to about two dozen from 66 in the 1990s, in part due to the expiration of government price subsidies." - according to the California Energy Commission.

Why not REOPEN those unused BIOMASS plants and clean up our forests before we have a Disaster? 

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Photographs of the Avenue of the Giants - on the Eel River Humboldt County California - Chainsaw Carving of Bigfoot - Dolos make the Harbor Jetty


Mom's Car under the trees


Eel River


Chainsaw Carving of Bigfoot at the Elfin Glen Gift shop on Highway 101


July 4th Carnival


Dolos - giant Concrete Shapes
used to Make The Jetty Protecting
the Channel into Humboldt Bay


Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue OX
at the Trees of Mystery
On Highway 101
in Del Norte County


Mural of St Francis of the Redwoods
 in Willits - On Highway 101 South of Eureka

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox Sculptures at the Trees Of Mystery - Roadside Attraction - Highway 101 Northern California

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue OX


Mural of Salmon at
The Forest Cafe across the street

Redwood Trees 

https://www.treesofmystery.net/


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