Slogvik photo album #1

After a long flight, Rotraud & Einar emerge from customs at San Francisco International Airport where they are heartily greeted by Peggy & Keith Wheeler.

A needed break after experiencing Bay Area freeway traffic, a meal is enjoyed at this Italian restaurant south of Napa. This old building used to be the Soscol roadhouse that was run by Serena Anderson Slogvik, Keith's great great grandmother.

Next stop is the Tulocay Cemetery at Napa. Here Rotraud & Peg contemplate the gravesite where the "Sloopers" Jacob & Serena Anderson/Slogvik are buried. Please check out our "Slooper Monument Project" page.

Here we stop for a photo op with the ripening grapes in the north end of the Valley. We had just spent a pleasant first evening at Calistoga. The Napa Valley is world famous for its vineyards & wineries.

Real Goods Trading Corp's Solar Living Institute offers this resting spot as part of their demonstration of sustainable living practices. This experiment in appropriate technology is located in Hopland on Highway 101.

The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
is located in Talmage near Ukiah on the grounds of what used to be the state mental hospital where Keith (L) interned as a student. It is now the site of our favorite vegetarian restaurant shown here.

A must-see tourist event is the Chandler Drive-Through Tree
in Leggett.

At the Humboldt Redwoods State Park Visitor Center, Keith, Rotraud & Einar inspect the dated tree rings of a sawed and fallen redwood.

It is difficult to capture the immense size and height of these giants here in the Founders Grove.

This is taken the next day at beautiful, but seldom visited, Cheatum Grove on Highway 36.

Occasionally you can manage to take a photo that shows some of the majesty and grandeur of the redwood grove.

The once Carnegie Library in Eureka, (now the Humboldt Arts Council's Morris Graves Museum of Art) shows a bit of the use to which the old growth redwood was put.

The mural outside our favorite record shop Berlinger's Cornucopia was a good excuse for a photo - then it was time to meet owner Leon and shop for classical CDs. This is located in Eureka.

Checking out the compass rose at the Eureka waterfront boardwalk, they learn that North is not where they thought it was. Old Town is in the background.

On the boardwalk, Keith and Einar stand in front of a fine view of the Humboldt Bay Marina and Woodley Island.

The Victorian Village of Ferndale on a late afternoon - Einar, Rotraud & Peg.

The too hot afternoons continue at Mad River and require this location during the warmest hours.

Local Norwegian descendant, Chuck Hettrick and his wife Irene pay a call and visit on the Wheeler's deck. Norwegian genealogy was a hot topic.

Amber Simmons conducts a tour of the Simmons Soap Factory, a local cottage industry that enjoys worldwide success of their fine, handcrafted soap products.

Kent (L) hosts us at the Buck Mountain cabin where we spent our homesteading years in south eastern Humboldt County.

Here the group poses with Ken and Carlene Richardson, local farmers in the Mad River area who invited us to dinner. Much farming talk this evening.

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These 3 photos from a July 12 evening dinner party at the Wheeler's somehow got left out earlier & are out of sequence.

L to R we have Dan & Sue Gordon (Peg's colleagues from school), Rotraud, Dr. Jim Bostwick (retired & neighbor) and Einar.

After dinner, conversation continues in the living room over Norwegian style desserts.

The Slogviks visit the Wheelers - Summer 2002

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