Category National Parks and State Parks
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 […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Charleston
October12 – 13, 2024 Our drive to Charleston would last a little under four hours and take place mostly on the road we’d taken to Bonnie’s place at Sunset Beach. Soon enough we landed at the Best Western Airport Inn and Suites, our home for the next two nights. We’ve accrued quite a few reward […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Gettysburg and New Jersey, Part Three
September 20 – 24, 2024 Once Janet joined us, we drove the short distance to Smithville for our meal at the Inn. The original was built in 1787 by James Baremore as one room on a well –traveled stagecoach route and it may not have been planned as an inn. But houses were far between […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Gettysburg and New Jersey, Part Two
September 20 – 24, 2024 After our long day out at Gettysburg our next one would be low key, centered on getting a bike ride in on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) and exploring the area around the Airbnb. It had rained overnight so we waited a bit for the pavement to dry before […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Gettysburg and New Jersey, Part One
September 20 – 22 2024 After breakfast with Doug, we hit the road for our three night stay in Sharpsburg at Jennifer’s Place Airbnb (The River Bend Retreat ~ C&O Canal ~ Antietam), located in an ideal spot just yards away from the Potomac River and the C&O Canal. It’s a large and spacious two-bedroom […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Cisco Fest, Part Two
August 29 – September 14, 2024 It would take us two days to drive to our next destination, Spearfish, and we split it almost evenly with an overnight stop in Green River, Wyoming. Our lodging that night, the best deal we could find in this small town was at the Little Bear Motel for $119 […]
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 Spring 2024, Part Two
April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our last day in Zion would be a simple one, that is we would get on our bikes and ride up the canyon to the end. We took off in the late morning and rode into the park, a gradual climb of about 500 feet that was easy to […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part One
April 26 – May 13, 2024 We returned home from New Zealand and Australia and immediately drove north to Oakland to help celebrate our granddaughter Gemma’s birthday, returning home the following week to catch up on all that we had missed while being gone. I saw my GP about the hip and fortunately had a […]
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