After our one of our most expensive nights to date ($45/night + $2.50/night for each child {really RV place? You kinda suck… they’re 1 and 3}) just outside Humbolt Redwood State Forest, we stopped at Auto Stop #8 on the Avenue of the Giants. The Drury-Chaney trail, best known as 2.4 miles of an “almost…
I like to write about the funny and sometimes-only-funny-after-the-fact stuff that happens to us. It’s super easy when it’s something that actually happened to us – I just add a bit cynicism or obvious truth to the commentary and the post writes itself. However, Scott and I get asked about the logistics of our day…
It was all funny until it wasn’t. I’m hardly an expert but these matters but it was fairly obvious these folks weren’t high on life. Scott specifically asked me to shelf the D.A.R.E speech for the foreseeable future. When I protested he reminded me about the 15 year old kids I stopped to lecture on…
Nate and Grammie Denise roll into San Fran on the 11th of Nov. We are… officially… ahead of schedule! Ah yes… I remember you, old friend. “Ahead of Schedule”…. I’ve missed you. You make my type A, always-wear-a-watch, show up 2 minutes early toes curl. While I believe with all my heart that Auntie Ang and…
Literally as we fired up the Chief to drive away from Reno I checked the website and the chains restriction was lifted on Donner Pass. Until I saw that, we had been planning to head to Lake Tahoe, overnight and then cross into Yosemite. It did dawn on me that we would still have to cross…
