http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA Travels and Journeys... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:57:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2010 heather@heatherdugan.com (Heather Dugan) heather@heatherdugan.com (Heather Dugan) 1440 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA 144 144 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW/?feed=podcast Footsteps Travels and Journeys... Travel, outdoors, adventure, Heather, Dugan, stories Heather Dugan Heather Dugan heather@heatherdugan.com no no http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2012/01/20/mega-monuments-muir-woods-national-monument-california/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2012/01/20/mega-monuments-muir-woods-national-monument-california/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:18:31 +0000 Heather Dugan http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/photo/mega-monuments-muir-woods-national-monument-california/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2012/01/20/mega-monuments-muir-woods-national-monument-california/feed/ 17 0:01:38 ...With the tallest redwood stretching 258 feet above the forest floor and the oldest one dating back at least 1200 years, there is plenty to inspire awe within this national monument. President Roosevelt segregated the land in 1908; its name honors[...] ...With the tallest redwood stretching 258 feet above the forest floor and the oldest one dating back at least 1200 years, there is plenty to inspire awe within this national monument. President Roosevelt segregated the land in 1908; its name honors naturalist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and a pivotal figure in the establishment of our national park system... Hiking Heather Dugan no no http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/15/highway-1-muir-woods-to-bodega-bay-california/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/15/highway-1-muir-woods-to-bodega-bay-california/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:09:23 +0000 Heather Dugan http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/usacanada/west/california/highway-1-muir-woods-to-bodega-bay-california/ http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/15/highway-1-muir-woods-to-bodega-bay-california/feed/ 12 0:00:31 Highway 1: Muir Woods to Bodega Bay (Map and Info) Some “views” present themselves with convenient pull-through roadside parking.  Others would slide through our consciousness as idle observations but for a moment’s quickening of[...] Highway 1: Muir Woods to Bodega Bay (Map and Info) Some “views” present themselves with convenient pull-through roadside parking.  Others would slide through our consciousness as idle observations but for a moment’s quickening of the heart.  These indulgent “moments,” however they might compel us to pause and gather in their sweet sensory detail, are what merge “scenic” with “drive” -and transform merely going somewhere into traveling. “Soaring Above Bodega Bay” “Mega-Monuments:  Muir Woods National Monument” View Highway 1; (Muir Woods to Bodega Bay, California) in a larger map Hiking Heather Dugan no no