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Get a Jump on Your Holiday Shopping with the penguin and Pelikan

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We have a very limited number of new-old-stock Pelikan Bright Red M101Ns, most commonly known as Coral.  These pens are offered with full packaging at a special price of $345. And for something even more special order one of these pens with a vintage nib assembly, as shown. Pricing for these custom pens ranges between $500 and $595 depending on the nib type chosen,  please inquire .

Out and About with the penguin

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We have been sticking pretty close to home since our most recent Southwestern trip, but we have been doing some noteworthy (at least to me) stuff that I thought I would share. In early October we attended a gathering of the Ohlone peoples who were the original human residents of our area of th San Francisco Bay. A Dance, there were also food and crafts booths. Replica canoe Guide interpreter Dugout habitation, folks moved every spring. These houses got wet in winter Almost a then and now image. From here you can almost imagine what the land looked like before Europeans, except for the power stanchion.  About a week later I took my most ambitious walk since the surgery, up Flag Hill in Sunol. It rises about 1200 feet in a mile and is pretty rugged in spots. Two images from a random drive along the Great Highway to the west of downtown San Francisco And, finally, after the November Ohio Pen Show I visited Cincinnati to see my old fri

Last Day

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This final day of our trip (we head back home beginning Monday), we finished the Scenic Drive out to Capitol Gorge, walked the gorge, and then returned to park headquarters to pick fruit in the orchards and eat more pie at the Gifford House. An interesting note on this area, the first American settlers here were a band of Mormons who, apparently, sought to put some distance between themselves and the formal church in Salt Lake.  They found an arable little valley irrigated by the Fremont River,where the park headquarters now are, and began raising tree fruit. When the lands came to the National Park Service in the 1920s they decided to preserve the orchards, so today you can pick fruit here, and we did, about 4 ½ pounds of apples and pears. Were we to do this trip again (and we might) I would want to have a four wheel drive vehicle and the ability to walk more than the three miles we did today. Only then could we more fully explore this wilderness wonderland.

Capitol Reef

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Saturday saw us making the brief journey from Escalante National Monument to Capitol Reef National Park. We were totally unfamiliar with this site until we began planning the trip and Sharon's brother, Larry, said we had to see it. He was right. As you can see, the scenery in both areas is spectacular. We reached Capitol Reef at mid-day and stopped off at a surprisingly crowded visitor center. There we got maps and decided to visit Gifford House, known for its homemade fruit pies which were remarkably good. Sharon had cherry, I had peach. After “lunch” we drove out along the paved portion of the ten mile Scenic Drive, the backbone, so to speak, of Capitol Reef, and on the way back took a couple of short walks out to Panorama Point and along the Sunset Point Trail.  Rosa points the way The plan for Sunday was to walk the slightly longer Capitol Gorge Trail.