Western USA and Canada Adventures – Part Six: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and a Californian Sunset

My final day in California was spent visiting the NASA Ames Research Centre, the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and then watching the sunset over San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean.

The NASA Ames Visitors Centre was a disappointment, it looked like it was either temporary or extremely rundown.

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Western USA and Canada Adventures – Part Five: USS Hornet Museum and UC Berkeley

My best mate took some time off work to show me around the Bay Area during my visit to California. On one of the days we didn’t really have much of a plan other than that we may go visit the area around UC Berkeley. After playing around on Google, I stumbled onto the website for the USS Hornet Museum. Not really knowing what to expect, other than some fun exploring an old aircraft carrier, we set the car’s GPS navigation and drove across the bay to Alameda.

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