Category California
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022, Part Four
November 16 – December 31 One of our goals for dining this time around in Fort Bragg was to enjoy good seafood. Ultimately, we’d not fulfill this desire but still ate well none the less. We checked out options on Trip Advisor that night, but many of our first choices were closed that evening and […]
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022, Part Three
November 16 – December 31 A week or so after arriving home we participated in a unique cycling event in Los Angeles known as CicLAvia. Started as a grassroots initiative in 2008 by several individuals who recognized that open streets events could address active transportation, urban land use, and public health needs in Los Angeles. […]
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022, Part Two
November 16 – December 31 The drive the next day would not be particularly long, but we wanted to get to Henderson early in the afternoon in order to stand in line to pick up a Honey Baked Ham, a lengthy process given the popularity of that product at Thanksgiving. We timed our departure to […]
Thanksgiving and Christmas 2022, Part Two
November 16 – December 31 In early November I received the cortisone injection and it did, over time, reduce the amount of pain and discomfort in my hip, but not entirely, as can be the case sometimes. With the deadline approaching to pay the balance for our planned trip to South America, I continued to […]
Northern California and Oregon Fall 2022, Part One
October 13 – 24 Soon after our return from North Carolina, we ventured north to Oakland to celebrate Jessica’s birthday and use the time to visit Kamp Angst in Oregon. This would be our second visit to the house Jessica and Kris had purchased at the beginning of September, and we were looking forward to […]
Cisco Fest 2022, Part One
September 16 – 28 As mentioned in the last post, a few weeks after our return from Europe I had a total right knee replacement. The surgery went well as did my recovery, which is long and somewhat arduous as one must be diligent about protecting the limb while it is healing as well as […]
Europe 2022 – Pre-Flight
May 24 – June 2 We’d been planning for about six months a return to Europe to celebrate our 40th anniversary this year. The impetus for this is that we originally planned on getting married there in 1982 (we did visit but ended up returning to the US to get hitched) and since have celebrated […]
KC Wedding – The Road Home
May 17 – 23 The car repaired and a good night’s sleep behind us, we set out on the first of what would be three long days of driving, much of it along a route we’d not traveled before. That first day would take over nine hours and land us in Cheyenne, Wyoming where would […]
Santa Barbara Weekend
February 25-28 Two weeks after our respective flights to the east coast, we loaded up the car on a Friday afternoon and made our way to Santa Barbara and the Best Western Plus Santa Barbara for a weekend of bike riding and to see the Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at the Arlington Theater. […]
East Coast Fall 2021 – Death Valley
November 19-21 Today’s drive would be a more manageable at six or so hours and so; after a stop at a Starbucks for a Venti vanilla latte, we hit the I-40 and motored west. Our many trips over the years have brought us along this route and thus the landmarks have become familiar. Knowing we’d […]
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