Category Trips
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 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 Summer 2024, Part Three
July 28– August 13, 2024 The next day would be a busy one with an unexpected twist at the end. We would relax at the Institute in the morning and then head into Grants Pass to hit the Josephine County Fair when it opened for the day. Later we would meet Kathy and Tom for […]
West Coast Summer 2024, Part Two
July 28– August 13, 2024 We had a quiet weekend after our bowling outing and soon enough Monday morning rolled around and we loaded up the Highlander with Joanna, Jessica, Gemma, and me for the seven-hour drive to Kamp Angst. We’d be embarking on a few long days of driving, and we were all curious […]
West Coast Summer 2024, Part One
July 28– August 13, 2024 We would start this relatively short seventeen-day road trip with a couple of objectives. First would be to see a good concert, second to spend a few days at home before heading north to Oakland where after a couple of days we would take off for Oregon with Jessica and […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Six
April 26 – May 13, 2024 We left Lindy and Greg’s house in the late morning for the short drive to Solana Beach for a night’s stay at Kim and Marty’s condo, enabling us to head to the Belly Up later that night to see Bob Schneider and his band play. Our friend Mark introduced […]
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 Four
April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our first order of business the next day was to climb on our bikes and get a ride in on the Tucson Loop (Huckelberry Bike Path), a network of shared-use paths, maintained by Pima County, that when completed will comprise 131 miles of paved trails dedicated to cyclist, pedestrian, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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