June 12, 2021 Last weekend Bob was away from home so I decided to take a little trip out to Palm Springs to visit the art museum. I hadn...

  September 6, 2020 On July 22, 2020, a thunderstorm rolled through northeastern California, and lightning strikes started several fires, in...

  September 6, 2020 In 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt established the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, which straddles the Oregon...

  August 11, 2020 After lunch on the last day of our Great Tree Adventure Trip, we headed to Tokopah Falls, a 3.4 mile roundtrip hike next t...

  August 11, 2020 We spent the final day of our Great Tree Adventure Trip in Sequoia National Park. To give some perspective on where it is ...

  August 9-10, 2020 After a few days in Redwood National and State Parks, our plan was to spend the night in Fortuna and then head south to ...

August 9, 2020 Like an expensive restaurant, the Tall Trees Trail requires advance reservations. Only 50 people are allowed on the 4-mile ro...

  August 9, 2020 Our second day in the Redwoods started out with a misty, magical morning. Look closely at his photo: Did you spot the small...

  August 8, 2020 After a good night's sleep, we left Redding and drove northwest towards the coast, passing through small towns like Wil...

  August 7, 2020 Five months into The Great COVID-19 Epidemic of 2020, we were getting pretty tired of staying home, but we were hesitant to...

I interrupt our Caribbean adventure posts with time sensitive material. In a week or two, the subjects of this post will disappear like Br...