Category Trips
West Coast Tour 2016 – Black Hills – Part One
Timeline: August 30-September 2 We’d be shifting locations this day, heading 130 miles west to Spearfish for four nights to get us closer to the tourist sites we wanted to visit, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial and Wind Caves National blah. We’d make a stop in Rapid City to drop off the Highlander for service, […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Badlands – Part Two
West Coast Tour 2016 – Badlands – Part Two Timeline: August 27-29 Our plan for our last day in the Badlands would be to hit the Fossil Talk at 10:30am and then head down to Saddle Pass to do a four-mile hike on the loop trail from there. It gave us some time to relax […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Badlands, Part One
Timeline: August 27-29 With an approximate seven-hour drive ahead of us we didn’t feel the need to hustle on the way, so took the time that morning to work on the blog, catch up on internet related tasks and put some time in at the workout room of the motel. On the road we continued […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Spring Green and Taliesin
Timeline: August 25-26 We rolled out of Milwaukee not long after noon having grabbed a bite to eat at the house before departing. The drive to Spring Green was pleasant, part way on the interstate and then the balance on two lane highways that cut through rolling farmland. Arriving a bit before check in time […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Milwaukee – Part Two
Timeline: August 22-24 Originally, we’d hoped to get a bike ride in before heading off to be tourists, but we woke to rain that would clear later in the day. So we did other things around the house, worked on the blog, some yoga for Joanna and then with the rain slackening took off to […]
West Coast Tour 2016 – Milwaukee
Timeline: August 22-24 Kristen and Andrew’s wedding on the 20th was a highlight, bringing family together we’d not seen in a few years, and celebrating the marriage of two very nice people. The next morning, we dropped Jessica and Kris off at the airport for their flight home and returned to the house, using […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Six
May 5-17 Followers of this blog will recognize our destination for Saturday evening, Speisekammer Restaurant, as being one of our favorite places to eat in the Bay Area. This would be our fourth or fifth visit, having lost track, and we looked forward to a wide selection of German draft beer, authentic food, spending time […]
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 […]
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