Re-exploring Old Town
“Old Town San Diego is considered the “birthplace” of California. San Diego is the site of the first permanent Spanish settlement in California.” – OldTownSanDiego.com I’ve lived in San Diego for […]
Category Archives: California
December Nights…
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” – Thomas Tusser Balboa Park is one of my favorite places in San Diego. It is […]
Yosemite!
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.”- Ansel Adams (July 30, 2009) Today is […]
Twain Country
“The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But […]
Wine Tasting in Sonoma Valley
“One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and–one talks about it.” – King Edward VII (July 27, 2009) Leaving San Francisco, we […]
San Francisco
“San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel.” – William Saroyan Continuing with our summer road trip travels… (July […]
Big Sur
“The PCH runs along much of the Pacific coast of the U.S. in California, and it parallels, and sometimes hugs, one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world. As […]
Northern California Road Trip
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” – Robert Louis Stevenson With the kids officially on summer break for the […]
