Month: April 2017

Hop On Hop Off

April 14, 2017

I’d been tracking the Alcatraz tickets online for a week or so.  Again, I’m not a planner so that seemed like a giant level of effort.  There were plenty available so I didn’t bother to purchase them.  Let’s keep things open… not be tied to a specific schedule.  Sometimes I think my mind might actually…

Movies & Muir

April 12, 2017

The goal with mom was to see as much as possible in the final 2 weeks of her time with us.  This is her first visit to northern California so we have to see: all of San Fran, do a traditional wine tasting, stroll through Redwoods, say hello to the Pacific (not the bay, but the…

Turning 2

April 11, 2017

Mom didn’t realize it at the time, but our overnight at Harris Ranch was the last night she spent in the Chief.  It turns out…. despite not being able to shower daily and wash her hair every Tues and Fri (Monday and Thursday simply will not do) and managing with only an accordion door on…

Hollywood and Vine

April 9, 2017

After all the excitement of the last week or so…. I was more than ready to get to San Francisco and Scott. I wanted to be done driving, done trouble shooting, done navigating, done with canyons.  Done.  I found my wall.  It lives at a month of travel in the RV without Scott while things…

D Day

April 4, 2017

I know I’ve said a lot of things about Disney over the years.  A lot.  Sometimes I run my mouth.  I know it.  When I started to travel outside the U.S. I realized how important it is to experience the unsanitized version of a culture.  For a long time, Disney seemed to me like the…