Channel Islands National Park: We had heard this string of 5 protected islands referred to as the “Galapagos of North America,” which sounded pretty darn enticing. Only 20+ miles off the California coast, it is certainly worlds apart from the hustle and bustle of the mainland...
After every long trip, people inevitably ask, “What was your favorite stop?” Well, folks, in twenty-seven stops of Summer 2023, THIS was our favorite! Along the Eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains, a 54-mile stretch of Highway 395 between Bridgeport and Mammoth Lakes...
Ahhhh, California, you never fail to delight and amuse. Here are just a few of the witty and wacky things we’ve laughed at along the way over the last three months! The Rear View Preach Wild Kingdom Pet Peeves Menu Madness I Love The Smell of Diesel In The Morning Fundraising Genius...
A quick two nights in Truckee, CA had us taking one of the most unique hikes ever … through miles and miles of graffiti-covered, abandoned train tunnels. It was a mess … but a beautiful mess! It was slow going, due to a river-rock surface, standing water in sections, and the...
In two months, we’ve been in (or on) the Western Sierras, Central Sierras, Northern Sierras, and now on our merry way to the Eastern Sierras, so it was inevitable that we’d find ourselves in something called the Lost Sierras. It’s an under-appreciated, under-populated...
If you have no curiosity about a national park with places called Bumpass Hell, The Big Boiler, Devil’s Kitchen, Fantastic Lava Beds, and Fart Gulch, then we can’t be friends. It’s that simple. Mudpots and cinder cones and fumaroles, ohhhh myyyy! It’s Lassen...
Burney may be a small Northern California town, but it delivered some big delights! Burney Falls is a big waterfall, at 129 feet. To recognize how big, look for the tiny people in the lower left corner of the foreground below. It’s so dang pretty that Theodore Roosevelt once deemed...
Besides being a tasty and economical soda pop, Shasta is also a county, a town, a national forest, and a super-huge mountain in California, and being almost to the Oregon border, is the northernmost point of our 11-week trip. In fact, though still in California, the over-the-air news...
Here we are on California’s Lost Coast, a mostly undeveloped area, so named after experiencing depopulation in the 1930s, but also maybe because you’re blessedly lost from civilization here, only accessed from all directions by difficult, narrow, twisty/turny roads, and 90...
We gathered our courage and drove the RV over the Golden Gate Bridge. We had envisioned an Instagram-perfect moment, the iconic architecture spotlighted through our picture-glass windshield which had been aggressively scrubbed of its usual bug coating. We rounded the corner approaching...