I had managed to cover the looping half-mile Main Trail at the Petrified Forest near Calistoga, California. It was nearly time to leave, but when you find yourself in such beautiful surroundings, it can be difficult to drag yourself away! But as I approached the main building and the entrance gate once more, this amazing place still had one or […]
As I promised a couple of days ago, here are the final images from our walk down to the Navarro River just before we left Hendy Woods State Park. According to my copy of The Hiker’s Hip Pocket Guide to the Mendocino Coast, “The Navarro River is the largest coastal river between Humboldt County’s Eel River and Sonoma County’s Russian […]
Back in my younger days I made a number of visits to Anaheim, to spend time with family and to visit Disneyland. But it wasn’t until watching this hour-long episode of California’s Gold that I began to realize how much more there is to this Southern California city than just theme parks! Originally aired in September 2008, Huell takes us […]
Today, the last series of images from my trek up Mt Konocti last May. I do still have a few photos I’m not including because they’re very similar and/or because I would have to extend the series. And I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to move on to other topics! I’ll most likely share those images at a […]
After more than two hours of exploring — though it felt like only a few minutes — it was nearly time for me to leave the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden during my visit last October. I had agreed to meet the Big Guy down the road (near the Jug Handle Reserve) at noon, but still I slowed my steps as […]
We discovered Hendy Woods State Park in Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley for the very first time in late October of last year. I was sorry we had arrived so late in the afternoon because I was more than happy to keep exploring the trails. However, the Big Guy was tired from fishing all day, and the sun was headed for […]
There are times when I’m so happy to be hiking through along a forest trail that I feel I’m stopping about every few steps to shoot a photo; and then there’s the time last May when I did actually manage to document nearly every step I took around the back of the Robert Louis Stevenson Tree. As I was doing […]
Whenever we spend a few days at Clear Lake and stay along the northeast shore in Nice, I usually feel the urge to take a walk up and down the short stretch of Lakeshore Boulevard behind the Worldmark hotel property. Over the years I’ve done this quite a few times, and it’s been interesting to see that for the most […]
I’ve been showing you a lot of photos from the areas of Lake, Napa, and Mendocino counties lately, so today here’s something a bit different — Flagstaff, Arizona. Last June on the second night of our road trip to Texas, we decided to treat ourselves to a stay at the 3.5 star Little America Hotel. We enjoyed the large, comfy […]