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West Coast Summer 2025, Part Three
July and August 2025 Today’s ride, the second of the tour would be a hard one, climbing to the top of the McKenzie Pass and its summit at 5,200 feet, with1,800 of that to come in just ten miles. It was another warm day, but an early start helped to mitigate some of it as […]
West Coast Summer 2025, Part One
July and August 2025 Returning home from Europe at the end of May we quickly turned around and a week or so later drove north to Oakland for some time there with Jessica, Kris and Gemma before all of us drove to Sonoma to celebrate the wedding of Jessica and James, close friends of the […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Five
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 Finished with lunch, a group of us hopped back on the shuttle bus to head the short distance to the Ahwahnee Hotel for a drink at its bar, the one we’ve come to know so well. We had thought about dining there one of the nights in its famous and […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Four
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 Three weeks after our return from Oakland and Paso Robles we made plans to travel separately, Joanna to North Carolina to join her fellow book club members to celebrate the club’s 25th anniversary with a couple of in the mountains of North Carolina outside of Charlotte. In the meantime, I […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Three
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 The rain finally stopped overnight and although it was quite chilly, not needing to rush back to Oakland Joanna and I finally got that bike ride it we’d been wanting to do. We managed to eke out 16 miles before time constraints, and the cold, made us turn around and […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Two
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 With rain and cold forecast for the next morning we loitered in the room and then around noon got some coffee at a nearby Starbucks and headed west on Highway 46 over the Santa Lucia Coastal Mountains to the coast highway, then turned north at Cambria to make our way […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part One
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 With a two-month trip to Europe scheduled to start at the end of March 2025, we focused on trips to Henderson for Thanksgiving, Solana Beach for Christmas, Oakland for New Years and other short visits in California. I’ll report on two here, the first being a three-night stay in Paso […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Cisco Fest, Part One
August 29 – September 14, 2024 After some months of planning, Labor Day Weekend rolled around, and we found ourselves back in Oakland to start what would be a two-month road trip to the east coast. Ostensibly, our initial motivation revolved around two separate events, meeting the Cisco’s in Rapid City and landing in Fernandina […]
West Coast Summer 2024, Part Four
July 28– August 13, 2024 The next morning, we packed up with no small amount of regret, bidding a fond farewell to the Institute pondering future opportunities to return. We stopped in Grants Pass at the Dutch Brothers (a regional coffee chain) kiosk to get some caffeine for the road and then hit the I-5 […]
West Coast Summer 2024, Part One
July 28– August 13, 2024 We would start this relatively short seventeen-day road trip with a couple of objectives. First would be to see a good concert, second to spend a few days at home before heading north to Oakland where after a couple of days we would take off for Oregon with Jessica and […]
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