Pages Tagged “Road Trip”
Reviews
- The Great Typo Hunt
A cross-country road trip with a Sharpie pen, correcting grammatical and spelling errors in road and shop signs. I’ve mellowed on the subject since it came out, but it’s still interesting.
Blog Posts
- Wildflower Superbloom in the California Desert – Anza-Borrego Spring 2017 Photos
A family day trip out to the desert to see desert wildflowers in bloom. On the way we drove through old familiar mountains and a grove of iron statues.
- I Left My Tire in San Francisco
I already hated driving in SF, but getting a flat tire in the rain on the way to the hotel while late? Not fun, and it kept us out of Wondercon on Friday.
- Monterey and Carmel
A visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cannery Row, area, then into Carmel-By-The-Sea, Mission San Carlos, and up into Carmel Valley.
- California Cruisin’: Cambria and Hearst Castle
During the last week of February, we drove up the California coast from Orange County to San Francisco, stopping in various places to visit friends and family and see the local sights. It wasn’t an exact repeat of last year’s trip, but we did redo Hearst Castle the second day out. Day 1: Tuesday — […]
- Only in Vegas – Double or Nothing
While they may tell you that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, they’re not entirely correct: some of it escapes onto the internet! So here’s the lighter side of our recent trip to Las Vegas. Let’s start with the drive out. Somewhere between the Cajon Pass and Victorville, we saw a warehouse with this […]
- Return to Vegas
Katie and I seem to do vacations in pairs. We’ll go somewhere on a trip, then a year or two later come back and do all of the things we discovered but couldn’t find time for the first time around. Last April we went to Las Vegas for an extended weekend, did some sightseeing, saw […]
- Only in Vegas
You know the routine. We can’t pass up a bizarre image without taking a photo and posting some sort of comment. Not even on vacations. The drive to Las Vegas from southern California is simple: make your way to the 15, head north, and keep going until you get blinded by the neon. The ⅔ […]
- Back from Vegas
Whew! We took a few days off for our second anniversary and drove out to Las Vegas last weekend. Neither of us gamble, so it might seem kind of an odd choice, but there’s something else Vegas has a lot of: shows. In four days we managed to see Avenue Q, “Pirates 4-D” (a cheesy […]
- Clouds on the Horizon
June gloom is over, and we’re into the time of year when we get hot, sunny days with lots of big, towering cumulus clouds promising rain…on the horizon.