I grew up wandering the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in western West Virginia, the most ancient mountain range in the United States, formed 480 million years ago, once as tall as the Alps, worn naturally over the millennia slowly…
Day 659 – Dublin, Ireland – Pubs and pints and potatoes.
August 5, 2021
Admittedly, we chose a strange time to visit Dublin. First in after covid restrictions lifted, so the crowds were less, but the city had not adjusted back to the usual party pub Dublin. The first half of our stay,…
Day 657 – Sintra, Portugal – Palatial wonderland of the Lisbon aristocracy.
July 26, 2021
In the forests amongst the steep craggy mountains that are enshrined in a near constant mist and fog, lives a town as old as Lisbon. A cool retreat from the hot weather of the larger coastal city about 40 minutes…
Day 637 – Lisbon, Portugal – An ancient magical place.
July 21, 2021
Lisbon is an old soul looking back on her past with sadness. It permeates the ancient streets, a palpable melancholy. There’s a sadness and longing to the local music, called fado. Embodied in the untranslatable word saudade, a nostalgic…
Returning to travel after covid.
July 1, 2021
Last year when we were racing through Italy and Spain to outrun the coronavirus I think I was quicker than Katy to see the urgency and need to rethink our plans. Not paranoid but I have a pretty good…
Day 547 – Eugene, Oregon – Native homeland of the PNW hippy.
June 20, 2021
I first visited Eugene (pronounced /yoo-JEEN/) in 1997 while driving around the country, I’ve told that story before in my post about the Oregon Country Fair. But the short version is that we happened to be driving through Eugene…
Day 546 – West Coast Road Trip – Southern Oregon Coast
June 11, 2021
Driving Highway 101 up the southern Oregon coast. 201 miles From Klamath, CA to Florence, OR. For the third part of our west coast road trip we continued north along 101 along the southern Oregon coast. It’s similar to…
Day 540 – West Coast Road Trip – Northern California Redwoods
June 4, 2021
Driving Highway 101 north through The Avenue of the Giants and Redwood National Park. 153 miles From Leggett to Klamath, CA. After the first leg of our west coast road trip up highway 1 from San Francisco, we connected…
Day 538 – West Coast Roadtrip – Northern California Coast
May 27, 2021
Driving Highway 1 from San Francisco to its northern terminus. 204 miles From Muir Beach to Leggett, CA. From Visalia we drove to Petaluma just north of San Francisco and camped at another KOA. Coming down towards the coast…
Day 529 – Death Valley National Park
May 14, 2021
From Page, AZ, we drove back down through Las Vegas and up 95 to Amargosa Valley, turning left towards a Casino/Hotel/RV Park a few yards from the Nevada/California border. Home base for our visit to Death Valley for a…