Damnation Creek trail head
I had the room all to myself and I slept pretty well. The sound of the water rushing in against the rocks was quite nice. I talked with Kaci, the hostel manager, last night to get hiking...
View Articlewatch out for all the elk poo
Kristen got up early and left and I noticed I had another room mate here at the hostel. Virginia was in another room next to the room where someone was snoring unbelievably loud, so she moved into my...
View Articleit will only be worth about $800,000
After showering and getting dressed I headed to the kitchen here at the Redwood Hostel and oh my, there’s more people here than I thought. It’s a big kitchen, two stoves and fridges and and three big...
View ArticleI got what I asked for
I got up early, packed, checked out of the Redwood Hostel and was on the road by 8:00am heading south. It was a beautiful day. My destination – the Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel near Pescadero, CA....
View Articlemy car would have been totaled
I left the Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel Saturday morning, the 27th, and drove south along the California coast through Monterrey, Big Sur, San Simeon, Santa Barbara and arrived in LA at the Santa...
View ArticleMy 2008 Winter U.S. west coast road trip
In mid December 2008, I took off on a road trip of the west coast of the U.S. from top to bottom. Starting in Lynden Washington, just south of the Canadian border, I headed to the Olympic peninsula of...
View ArticleKootenays road trip – Guess what I get to do tomorrow
It’s 10:00am and I’m sitting in the Sunshine Cafe in the front looking out the window on Columbia Road here in Rossland, BC. The hostel is across the street. It’s cold and overcast and mildly snowing....
View ArticleKootenays Road Trip – cont. 3
I’m still here at Terry’s place above Kootenay Lake near Nelson, BC. It’s been one week since I brought her home from the hospital after her knee replacement surgery and her recovery has been amazing....
View ArticleSpring Road Trip – Lynden to Portland
Great day for a road trip. I left on a sunny 60 degree spring day, the farmers were out plowing the fields and the trees, they be a bloomin. I left about 12:30 headed south for Portland, my first stop...
View ArticleSpring Road Trip, Day 2 – Portland to San Francisco
I left the Portland Hostel at 8:00am for San Francisco. The drive south of Portland was much as I remember it, fairly boring. Southern Oregon gets pretty hilly. Coming down from the hills and into...
View ArticleSpring Road Trip, Day 3 – San Francisco & Tim O'Brien concert
After a night in a rather uncomfortable bed here at the San Francisco Hostel at Fisherman’s Wharf, I was up at 8:00 and explored the hostel a little. The view from here is fantastic. Breaky was being...
View ArticleSpring Road Trip, Day 4 – San Francisco
I had intended to sleep in a bit this morning considering I didn’t go to bed till 3:00am since I was up late writing about the concert. But, this bed they have me in really sucks, there’s just not...
View ArticleSpring Road Trip, Days 5 & 6 – SF to home
Day 5 – The weather in San Francisco had been cold and rainy and I was anxious to get on the road again. I headed out, thinking the rest of California would be OK, weather wise. I thought wrong. I...
View ArticleFrom Here To Uncertainty – The Redpath Family Goes Mobile
Update: See my follow-up post after my interview of the Redpaths on the 16th. Eight days and counting. So there I was piddling around on the computer, looking for a job in this crappy environment and...
View ArticleFrom Here To Uncertainty – Bob & Brenna Redpath
I posted a short article a couple of days ago about Bob and Brenna Redpath of Los Angeles who are chucking it all and hitting the road with their two kids. I had an opportunity to talk with Bob and...
View Article"Maggie's awesome mid life, up and quit her job, went to Europe for two...
A book version of my awesome mid-life, up and quit my job and went to Europe for two months European road trip journal and pictures is now available in hard copy or as a pdf file. The book is 168...
View ArticleR & R in DC
04/27/2010 One of the cool things about my job is that I get to take “home time” pretty much wherever I want. This time, I chose Washington DC in the springtime. I had been planning this trip for...
View ArticleR & R in DC, day 2
04/28/2010 After a fairly good night sleep here at the Washington DC HI Hostel, I got up and went exploring. The first order of business was breaky and I found the dinning room that was pretty much...
View ArticleR & R in DC, day 3
04/29/2010 Didn’t get much sleep last night, having gone to bed at 2:00am and all. Oh well. Met a new roommate this morning. As I was laying in bed I heard her talking with someone and it sounded...
View ArticleR & R in DC, day 4
4/30/10 I had been planning on taking the guided walk through Georgetown and George Washington University last night but wimped out. Well, I wish I had gone. This morning during a nice long leisurely...
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