Pelican in the sunset, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 

Joanne, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Pelicans are diving for fish over her left shoulder somewhere.

Pelican diving for fish off Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This church is one of the few redeeming features of a town full of noise, tat-sellers and tourists off cruise ships for the day. We seem to have come here by accident.

Sunset viewed from the Copper Canyon train, Mexico 

View from the Copper Canyon train, Mexico 

View from the train, Copper Canyon, Mexico. 

The train ride from Chihuahaha to Creel, and then Creel to Los Mochis, by the Pacific coast of Mexico, was superb and gloriously scenic. The train looked like this. 

Bigote (Spanish for 'moustache'), the trusty, but very slow steed that carried me from Creel around a three hour wander among the caves and farms of the Tamuhumara people in Northern Mexico. 

Rocks outside Creel, Mexico 

Grand Canyon, Arizona 

The Grand Canyon, Arizona.  

Flag, San Francisco 

Slightly out of sequence, this is the front of Vancouver station 

Swans by the pool at the Palace of Fine Arts, SF. 

San Francisco, obviously 

Yosemite Falls Yosemite, California. 

Me atop Yosemite Falls after a long walk, Yosemite, California 

Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, California 

Joanne atop the Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, California 

Half Dome from the top of the Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, California 

Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, California 

Half Dome, Yosemite, California, Ansel Adams style 

Half Dome, Yosemite, California 

Yosemite, California