3 years 5 months and 14 days later, we returned
Been here before? Well, yes. Worth another visit? Most definitely!!! We always look back fondly on our first visit to Joshua Tree National Park, so we took advantage of a day off on the way to LA for a follow-up. The Joshua Tree, like something straight out of Dr. Seuss, dominates the landscape. In some […]
Sportsmen’s Lodge
Who could resist an entry on the Sportsmen’s Lodge? This Studio City hotel is a Hollywood Legend that was originally a restaurant and trout-fishing lake (Hollywood Trout Farms), where people came to catch and eat their own dinners. The hotel officially opened in 1962, but the lodge has been around since the 1880s! In those […]
Northwest Passage Scenic Byway
National Trails System Some of our cross-country drives have taken us along various stretches of the National Trails System, the network of scenic, historic, and recreation trails created by the National Trails System Act of 1968. Route 12 from Lewiston, Idaho (near the Washington border) stretching into Montana is known as the Northwest Passage Scenic Byway. It follows bits […]
Reflections
Leaving San Francisco for the last time this year marked another step closer to finishing this tour. Since it’s college football season, there are plenty of events left, but that doesn’t mean there’s no time to squeeze in a little more down time. On the way up to Pullman, WA, home of the Washington State […]
Año Nuevo Elephant Seals
What’s this? Another day off? No, we aren’t dreaming. Since we’ve spent a lot of time in the SF Bay area this year, and years past, we decided to take a drive to an area never explored. After a very twisty-turny road over mountain roads, the Pacific Coast Highway lead south. Año Nuevo State Reserve […]
Destination USA: Anacortes, Washington
Since our last update, we visited family on Cape Cod for our second week off during our year-long mobile marketing tour. As expected, it seemed to fly by, and before we knew it we were back in the Zero vehicles going down the road (and up the road, and around back to the same road). […]
Ansel Adams Wilderness and Devils Postpile
Devil’s Postpile National Monument lies within the Ansel Adams Wilderness, near the Mammoth Recreation area south of Yosemite and north of the John Muir Wilderness area. A seasonal, mandatory shuttle brings visitors into the area of the monument, keeping traffic to a minimum and protecting this fragile area. There are countless hiking trails to explore […]
Yosemite via Tioga Pass
The Highlands Entrance to Yosemite Just south of the Mono Lake, there is an approach into Yosemite National Park‘s highlands from the Eastern Sierras via Tioga Road (originally used by Native Americans for travel and trade, and later as a wagon trail and mining road). This route is the highest route across the Sierras in […]
Vasquez Rocks!
Vasquez Rocks History As you drive the Antelope Valley Freeway from Santa Clarita Valley, north of LA the other-worldly Vasquez Rocks loom suddenly out of the landscape. The angles at which these mammoth rocks were forced up and out of the earth show the power that lies beneath the San Andreas Fault. You can see […]
High Sierra Music Festival
Arriving from the ding-ding-dinging of Reno to the quiet, sleepy Quincy was a great change of pace. We checked into The Sporting Inn located on Main Street. The B&B is located on the second floor of a storefront, in a building that looks to have been there since the town’s early days. It was like […]