Whenever we’re looking for a place to stay on our coastal trips, we try to find locations where it’s easy to get outside and walk. Not all of the houses we’ve rented fit that criteria, but it’s a definite plus in my book. The shoulders along Highway 1 can be small to nonexistent, and the road itself consists of innumerable […]
Off along a short side trail at the Petrified Forest in Calistoga, I found an extra bit of geological history — a large ash fall left over from the eruption of Mt. St. Helena 3 million years ago. Although the entire site is scattered with concrete-like remants of the ash deposits (like the one in the image below), this spot […]
Two weeks ago I featured an episode of Visiting called Over L.A. from 1990s. You might say that in a sense this episode is an update; it aired in September 2007 and highlights the newest technology at the time, serving as a great contrast with the aerial views from Huell’s earlier outing. His hosts for this segment, Helinet Aviation, are […]
I’m not sure if we’ll ever return to this cabin up in the hills above Manchester, but it was definitely a stay I won’t forget for a long time! We faced a few minor frustrations here — adjusting to the lack of microwave, living off the electrical grid, dealing with cold, rainy weather — but all in all, this was […]
Huell always excelled when it came to looking at things from an unusual perspective — going places and enjoying experiences most of us will never be able to do ourselves. And this episode of Visiting, which originally aired in 1994, is a great example. Hold on for a unique view of Los Angeles, complete with freeway traffic jams, layers of […]
I’m continuing my look back to September 2022 which I began yesterday, and today’s post includes images from Black Point Beach in Sea Ranch and Gerstle Cove near Salt Point (Sonoma County) and the Point Arena Lighthouse (Mendocino County). This was really one of the nicest coastal trips we’ve had, and I would be very happy to spend more time […]
Today I’m looking back at September 28, 2022, during another of our trips to the Sonoma and Mendocino coast. We were staying in a beautiful little house in Sea Ranch, up on Timber Ridge Road — no ocean view from there, but we were in the middle of a wonderful coastal redwood forest. And there were hiking trails that took […]
Today I was planning to feature a completely different episode of Visiting, but then I happened to read the blurb from this one, which originally aired in July 1999. Since I actually mentioned foraging in my post on Monday (Earth Day), it felt only fitting to take a look at some serious foraging right in the heart of Los Angeles. […]
Oh, look — I discovered another bunch of images from last year that I had completely forgotten about! I shot all but one of these with my beloved Fujifilm camera while exploring around the west shoreline of Eagle Lake, in the small community of Spalding (Google seems to think it’s “Spaulding”). I would love to go back and see what […]