February 14, 2011
The Northern California valley is lush and green, the sunset is rosy over the hills, and the vineyards stretch as far as the eye can see. We’re not far from Napa in miles but far from the crush of wine buyers and tasters and expensive boutique hotels that accompany it. It’s a bucolic view ...
October 23, 2010
What child of any age – including you adults out there – doesn’t love a Ferris Wheel, a meri-go- round or a roller coaster. Better yet, who doesn’t love coupling these attractions with sea air and a wooden boarding, the smell of the ocean mingling with popcorn, cotton candy, and french fries. In other words, ...
October 22, 2010
This lush and beautiful part of Northern California is a destination in and of itself; for us it was part of a road trip that stretched up the California coast. We spent the night in Fortuna, highway convenient, basic, and quite pleasant. Before heading to the gorgeous Victorian town of Ferndale, we went north a ...
October 21, 2010
I’ve already described about the pleasures of beach going without the summer sun, crowds and hassles in and around Mendocino and Fort Bragg. Now, let’s head farther north, clinging to Highway 1 through the picturesque town of Westport, and now a tiny spot with a lovely soft white sand beach for running, wave chasing, and ...
October 21, 2010
There’s something wonderful about taking your kids to a non-tropical beach in autumn. You don’t have to worry about too much sun exposure because they’re already wearing a sweatshirt; you don’t have to bring the beach umbrella, the sun hats, the water toys. Instead, you can simply enjoy everything a beach has to offer BESIDES ...
October 21, 2010
After we left Bodega Bay, stuffed with fresh crab and carrying kites with our luggage, we weren’t quite ready to return to urban life, even if that brought us to the wonderful cable cars and chocolate shops of San Francisco. Instead we headed for Tomales Bay and the Point Reyes National Seashore just about ...
October 19, 2010
My family and I had a great autumn get away to the coastal towns of Central and Northern California, and traveling inland to the Avenue of the Giants, the mecca of redwood trees. Garberville California is a roughly 4 hour drive north from San Franscisco on the 101 freeway. Shelter Cove is a short drive ...
October 7, 2010
Trinidad, California is a really small town, and I do mean small, on California‘s northern Humboldt County Coast. How small is it? Actually, with less than three hundred residents it’s the smallest incorporated city in California as well as one of the oldest, and thanks to the curving shore line here, one of the furthest ...
September 14, 2010
With historic towns, caves, caverns and mines to explore, the rolling Sierra Nevada hills in California make a great weekend excursion. Jamestown California, our starting point for a weekend of exploring is an easy drive from Fresno, California on a road made gold by fall foliage this time of year. You can fly or drive the ...
