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TRA VEL
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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