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          Traveling in 2021:








        On the Road Again




          by Tom and Vickie Walters



                 ormally, at this time of the   Assumption (listed among “The     at the Tillamook Cheese Factory
                 year, we would be on our     Most Beautiful Churches in the      before spending the night in Coos
         NFall Foliage Tour.  But as          World”).  After visiting a few sites   Bay, OR.  The next day, we head
          we all know, 2020 has been nothing   around Cincinnati and enjoying     to Crater Lake National Park for a
          close to normal!  We did not move   lunch, we will drive to Paducah, KY   trolley tour, then to Grants Pass for
          any buses from mid-March until a    to spend the night.  Our last night   the night.  From Grants Pass, we
          few weeks ago, so we spent extra    will be spent in Tulsa.             will follow the coastline through
          time planning our travel for 2021 –                                     Crescent City and Eureka, CA to
          and it looks exciting and fun!      August 18-31, 2021, we have         the Redwoods and Avenue of the
                                              planned our Pacific Coast Tour      Giants. Continuing our journey
          May 16-22, 2021, we are going       again.  It was planned for this past   along the coast, we will see Fort
          back to the Ark Encounter (full     August, but COVID cancelled that    Bragg, Mendocino, and Point Reyes,
          size replica of Noah’s Ark, built   tour, too.  For next year we added   arriving in San Francisco for two
          according to the dimensions given   a day.  We overnight in Durango,    nights.  In San Francisco, we have
          in the Bible) in Williamstown, KY.    CO, Salt Lake City, and Nampa,    planned a ferry to Alcatraz and a
          On our way, we will overnight in    ID before arriving in Portland,     step on guide of the city the next
          Dallas, Memphis, and Lexington,     OR for two nights.  There we will   day.  On our way to Paso Robles,
          KY.  After spending most of our     enjoy a boat tour on the Columbia   CA (wine country), we will stop at
          day at the Ark, we will make our    River Gorge, Multnomah Falls,       Pigeon Forge Lighthouse, Big Sur,
          way to Cincinnati, OH, stopping     and a step-on guide of the city.    and possibly Hearst Castle. On
          at the Cathedral Basilica of the    Leaving Portland, we plan to stop   our journey home, we overnight in




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