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Earthquake Country! November 30, 2010

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Sunday, we all wanted to get outside and get some fresh air!
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We gathered up the family and headed out on a 1.5 hour road trip to Point Reyes.
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What a good lookin’ bunch, yes?

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The drive up north was great, so much to look at. This is San Quentin prison! Yikes!
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We finally got up to our destination!
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Welcome to Earthquake Trail!
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This was a half mile educational loop filled with all kinds of info about how Earthquakes work. (All of us nerds loved it!)

EJ proclaimed: “Take a picture of this sign and we can read it later”. lol
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The hike itself was more of a stroll, but it was nice.

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And then we found this!

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Those blue posts mark the San Andreas fault!
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All I kept thinking of was Land of the Lost when they fall into the earthquake crack. LOL
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The best part was seeing this fence. This was once connected, but in the early 1900s, the plates moved 12 feet in less than a minute!
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Here is all four of us demonstrating how far apart the plates moved!
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After our geography lesson, we headed over to a history lesson!
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They have an old Indian Village that has been restored to it’s original form.
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This used to be how they lived!
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And they had Teepees too!
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Then we went inside the “Sweat Room” (not quite sure what that was for. lol)
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EJ running out of the Sweat Room. HAHA
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Then for some reason, I decided to jog back to the car.
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It was a fun way to spend the day.
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So much of this great state to explore still.

 

One Response to “Earthquake Country!”

  1. Erika Says:

    Wow, I never realized the San Andreas Fault was something you could actually walk on. I always pictured it to be either A. just a geographical term that isn’t really physically on the ground (kind of like the actual state lines you see on a map — I was sad when I grew up and realized the states really don’t look like a map from up above, names and all) or B. so gigantic it was like the Grand Canyon.
    That was very cool!


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