From Desert to Rainforest and Volcanoes
Driving the 1,200 miles of our route up the West Coast, we were struck with the diversity of the landscape of America’s Pacific states (California [Read More…]
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Crater Lake National Park, Or What To Do When Wally World Is Closed
Stop number 2 of our August drive up the West Coast was at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Crater Lake was formed nearly 8,000 [Read More…]
A Day In Wine Country: Sonoma vs. Napa
As our plans to drive from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest started to firm up, Chuck took to Google Maps and planned a route. [Read More…]
Dancing Up And Down the West Coast
I can think of few activities that have more health benefits than dancing. Just Google “health benefits of dancing” and start reading. If the physical [Read More…]
The Palm Springs Air Museum
Regular readers should know by now that if there’s an aviation museum near where we find ourselves, Chuck is going to drag Lori to see [Read More…]
The Salton Sea and Bombay Beach
On the south end of the Coachella Valley, there’s a sea in the middle of the desert. It’s not a natural body of water. Well, [Read More…]
The California Citrus State Historic Park
The Saturday we went to the drive-in, we had half the afternoon to kill in Riverside. One of the top TripAdvisor attractions for Riverside, California [Read More…]
A Night At The Drive-In
Americans love to innovate and solve problems that nobody realized existed before. Not long after we began hitting the roads in droves in our shiny [Read More…]
Atop Mount San Jacinto, California
Stunning vistas, breathtaking scenery, blah blah, yada yada… It seems inevitable that we will tire of laying our eyes on incredible natural beauty, or that [Read More…]
The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
In the heart of California’s Coachella Valley, in the town of Indio, you’ll find a desert oasis of kitschy travel fun. Shields Date Garden is [Read More…]