Category Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.)
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 […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Corpus Christi
October24- 26, 2024 Knowing we had a relatively simple six-hour drive from Lafayette to Corpus Christi and since it was a Friday, that Stephanie and Lee would be working that day, we had no need to rush out of town for the journey. So, we stopped in at Poupart’s again for some coffee to go, […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Lafayette
October18- 20, 2024 Our short four-hour drive to Lafayette went smoothly and we arrived at check-in time at Paz’s place Airbnb. We’ve had good luck with Airbnb in rarely having booking’s cancelled (only once before I memory) but this trip brought us two, the first in Amelia Island and now here in Lafayette. About a […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Spanish Fort/Mobile, Part Two
October18- 20, 2024 As mentioned in the last post, we had one last stop on the agenda for the day, and that was at the Oakleigh House, the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, Union Barracks, and a modern archives building. The name for the […]
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 Spring 2024, Part Five
April 26 – May 13, 2024 For our last day in Tucson, we committed to being tourists. As we’d done much of the town in prior trips, this time around we’d be heading to sights some drive away. Our first stop would be Kartchner Caverns, about an hour out of town. We first encountered the […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Three
April 26 – May 13, 2024 With a day to fill and not able to do much physically, we got creative. Our first stop would be at the Riordan Mansion State Historic Park. This park features the duplex home of Timothy and Michael Riordan, lumber baron brothers who married sisters, Caroline and Elizabeth Metz. The […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Sydney, Part Three
February 2 – 6, 2024 As mentioned in the prior post, our outing for the day would be to the Hyde Park Barracks, directly across the street from the park of the same name. Joanna and I rode over in an Uber from the Tramsheds while the rest of the gang walked the roughly three […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Sydney, Part Two
February 2 – 6, 2024 The next day would feature another highlight, a tour of the world-famous Sydney Opera House. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbor, it is widely regarded as one of the world’s most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, but completed […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Cairns, Part One
January 28 – February 1, 2024 Our flight the next morning to Cairns at 12:30 pm would again give us plenty of time to clean up and check out of the Airbnb and still get to our flight. We’d be flying for the first time on Jetstar, an Australian low-cost airline headquartered in Melbourne and […]
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