On Oregon, And A Second Chance for Portland
Way out west, just before you drive off into the Pacific Ocean, is an idyllic land, not too hot, not too cold, ocean beaches reaching [Read More…]
Travel
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…]
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…]
Road Trip Essentials
In January we took a “quick” thousand-mile road trip down to vacationland in Central Florida. We followed that up with a couple-thousand-mile road trip to [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…]
In Search of the Ideal Luggage
There are four factors to consider when selecting luggage: capacity, weight, durability, and price. The ideal luggage has infinite capacity, weighs nothing, is indestructible, and [Read More…]