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 […]
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 […]
Exploring Amantani Island, Peru
Amantani Island Amantani Island is in the big part of Lake Titicaca, about three hours by boat from Puno. We organized our trip with a local operator recommended by our hotel, and set out early. After a stop and a look around the Uros Islands, we motored on toward Amantani Island. The first thing we […]
Cape Agulhas
The drive to Cape Agulhas from Hermanus was filled with Merino sheep (imported here 200 years ago), cows, goats, farms, rolling green hills and villages like Napier and Bredasdorp. Arriving to Cape Agulhas the road curved down again by the sea. The water here seemed even more aqua blue, and very rough. this is a […]