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,...
Nestled in the dunes along a 10 mile stretch of undeveloped beach we camped by the windswept Pacific Ocean with the coastal redwoods as a backdrop. Such was our experience at Gold Bluffs Beach campground in northern California. Located 60 miles south of the Oregon/California...
How do I take 2,201 of my favorite photographs from an epic, twelve day Oregon/California coastal adventure and narrow it down to my top ten? Impossible...
Lighthouses have always fascinated me. I love their history, the role that they play and the hope that they represent. This week, Carissa and I depart for a lighthouse tour along the Oregon and California coast. We will start in Portland, Oregon and join the coastline...
. . . After begging and bribing my friends and family to "follow", "like" or come on, JUST TAKE A LOOK at my new blog, imagine my surprise at what happened this weekend. Wordpress picked my "California Adventure" post from over 400,000 bloggers and honored me with the #1...
25 years ago I found myself navigating a Lincoln continental the size of an aircraft carrier up a very dark and twisty Highway 1. Somewhere north of LA bound for San Francisco with a 6 mo old sleeping Christina and a increasingly nervous Carol by...
