When Carol and I discovered Seaside Florida almost twenty years ago, we fell in love with it’s small town feel, stunning architecture, sugary white beaches and a endless expanse of emerald green water stretching out to meet the sky. Years later the little girl on the front...
Carissa and I enjoyed our trip to California last week. Flying through the air and seeing the earth so small below made us seem somewhat detached from this world that has been the source of so much pain these last two months. We were blessed...
The four hour drive from Savannah, Georgia to Davidson, North Carolina was interrupted only by a brief stop for gas and a few goodies at a grocery store. Our only setback was the discovery that our hastily purchased box of organic cookies with the enticing...
Crossing the Golden Gate bridge is never the same experience no matter how often one traverses it. The weather can change by the minute, cloaked in fog for a moment, bathed in sunshine the next, whatever the weather, it’s always unique. This time, our crossing comes...
While most of the territory that Carissa and I have covered on our July 2012 Oregon/California Coastal Adventure has been new to us, this leg of our adventure was like coming home. Our visits to Point Reyes started in 2008 when Carissa and I ventured...
Viewing our cozy little Yurt in the woods and the seaside town of Mendocino from the perspective of the rearview mirror was no easy task. But our adventure continued as we made our way down highway 1 towards San Francisco. Our first stop was at Point...
Carissa and I experienced some unusual and interesting places on our Oregon/California adventure but this yurt was perhaps the most memorable. The description on Airbnb's website read like this… "Turn down my private lane, off the beaten path, and you will find my seven acre forest...
[caption id="attachment_2315" align="alignnone" width="560"] Picturesque Mendocino CA[/caption] When the producers of TV’s Murder She Wrote were looking for the perfect stand-in for the fictional New England coastal village of Cabot Cove, they found it about 3,000 miles this side of the East Coast in the Northern...
Arriving close to midnight at Point Cabrillo Lighthouse was not part of the plan but such was the case due to delays on The Lost Coast (see my previous post). Making our way through the Avenue Of the Giants in the dark with it's HUGE Redwoods dating back...
[caption id="attachment_2207" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Click on map to enlarge[/caption] Making our way down the coast of northern California was hard to do in a hurry. Every lookout point, picturesque little town and beach beckons one to toss the schedule and stay a bit longer. But alas,...
