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 […]
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 The rain finally stopped overnight and although it was quite chilly, not needing to rush back to Oakland Joanna and I finally got that bike ride it we’d been wanting to do. We managed to eke out 16 miles before time constraints, and the cold, made us turn around and […]
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 […]
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 With a two-month trip to Europe scheduled to start at the end of March 2025, we focused on trips to Henderson for Thanksgiving, Solana Beach for Christmas, Oakland for New Years and other short visits in California. I’ll report on two here, the first being a three-night stay in Paso […]
October27- 30, 2024 With a nearly ten-hour drive ahead of us we got an early start, and this time had smooth sailing all the way to Portales, where we’d spend two nights visiting with Kemet. We would stay at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Portales, which was a Best Western the last time we […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
October18- 20, 2024 After straightening up the Airbnb and bidding farewell to the rest of our group, we hit the road for the six-hour drive to Spanish Fort, our home for the next three nights. We’ve spent quite a bit of time traveling many sections of the I-10, including at least three full runs from […]
October15- 17, 2024 After our bike ride, we cleaned up, packed and hit the breakfast room and then made our way the short hour down to St. Mary’s, Georgia for three nights at Brittany’s Place Airbnb which we’d booked after our initial lodging choice, closer to Amelia Island, had to cancel due to flooding from […]
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