Category Grants Pass
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Five
May 5-17 On the way back to Oakland on Friday we stopped in Grants Pass to get the car washed (it was very, very dirty), fill the tank, and pick up a big coffee at Dutch Bros Coffee, our go to stop just before getting on the I-5. I parked the car some feet away […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Four
May 5-17 Wednesday was our day to spend some time in Grants Pass, stopping at a brew pub we’d visited our last time through in 2015 and checking in with our longtime friend from Los Angeles, Mark. We spent the morning reading and writing and in the early afternoon drove the forty minutes it takes […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Three
May 5-17 We left Monday morning after seeing Jessica and Kris (J&K) off to work, heading north on I-80 towards Sacramento, stopping briefly at a Starbucks to redeem a reward, in this case a gigantic latte, before turning north on the I-505 (a nice short-cut eliminating the need to go into Sacramento) and hooking […]
Holiday 2014 – The Last House on the Dirt Road off the County Road – Part 2
January 8-12, 2015 On Saturday, with a visit to Grants Pass for dinner scheduled for the evening, Joanna and I took our bikes out for a ride down to Selma and back. It was cold, but not uncomfortably so, and the work of cycling warmed us up after a time. We’d originally thought about taking […]
Europe 1984 – the Big Trip, Part Seven
Landing at JFK, we picked up a shuttle that took us to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, close to our next destination, Jan and Brian Dobbs house in nearby Voorhees. Jan is a childhood friend of Joanna’s and remains so to this day. She had moved back to New Jersey when they were in High School, […]
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