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After breaking camp in Lassen, we circled back around C Loop and stopped for one more visit with Jack & Dottie before heading to Susanville. Shall we say that getting our mail this time didn't go so smoothly as we'd like? First there were the five phone calls...
See Park Video This morning Lou wanted to just enjoy a leisurely breakfast and visit with us snug in our T@B rather than hurry to pack up and head out to hike the Kings Creek Falls Trail before her drive home this afternoon. We’ve all enjoyed this rendezvous and...
See Ranger Hike Talk Video See Ranger Talk Video In no particular hurry this morning we enjoyed coffee, conversation, breakfast, and listening to the park road audio tour while we ran the generator. Then we ventured out. We began our adventures at Chaos Crags. At each...
There's no Verizon signal in Manzanita Lake Campground so first order of business this morning, right after our caffeinated beverages and breakfast was a drive out of the park and into Old Station, California, a dozen miles to the east. There we gassed up the truck...
Over the course of the last few months we've had a few conversations with Karen's sister, Lou, about rendezvousing with her but had not been able to pin down a definite time and place until we talked this past weekend and agreed to meet at Manzanita Lake Campground in...
When we're on the move it's hard to stop for every great photo op so we resort to shooting out the windows of the truck. Sometimes they turn out well, especially with a bit of cropping, but most are not worth keeping. Today's one of those days, we're making the drive...
Ever since we watched the Oregon episode of Aerial America, we've wanted to look down on the town of Bend from the top of Pilot Butte, the cinder cone in the middle of town. Today we did. We'd intended to hike up but didn't find the trailhead. Next thing we knew we'd...
Our adventures have taken us to Bend, Oregon so we decided to make a pilgrimage to Zamp Solar. We made our way to the address we found online and as luck would have it, we met Conor Miller, the Chief Operations Officer in the parking lot. We chatted for a while...
Pendleton Mills! One of only four large scale woolen mills in the country. And they offer factory tours Monday through Friday! It seems to be a well kept secret but we found the information on the company website. It's one of the reasons we stayed an extra night at...
See Park Video See Park Video Described by it's architect as a "temple to the natural beauty of the Gorge", Vista House has graced Crown Point for one hundred years offering travelers commanding views of the Columbia River. These days during operating hours it...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.