Posted in Family, Humor, Outdoors, Travel, personal essay, tagged Eagle Lake, Shastafarian Porter, Windsurfer Beach on August 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Our mission was a car camping outing to Eagle Lake in northeast California. The target area was the great basin rangeland, high desert north shore (compared to the timbered south shore) of the second largest natural lake entirely in California.
I promised a mission report. From what I can recall of the weekend, here is [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, tagged Dayton Nevada, eBay, family Hudson, Marilyn Monroe, Misfits, teasing sisters on June 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I didn’t just get bit by some traveling bug.
I was born into it.
As far back as I can remember–and even further, as evidenced by those old 8mm home movies–my sister and I did a lot of traveling as kids. Not so much off to distant and foreign places like Germany, Scotland, China, New York–those are [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, tagged 2002 winter Olympics, Snow Basin, spring chores, spring skiing on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Ah, spring skiing.
When you have a bona fide excuse for sleeping in and hitting the slopes fashionably late and then quitting early to head down the hill to the local microbrewery.
Any skiing or boarding enthusiast worth their salt knows that you might as well wait until mid-morning to let the icy slopes that formed during the [...]
Posted in Adventure, Baja, Family, Humor, Travel, tagged adventure travel, driving too fast, fear, near death on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s fear, and then there’s fear.
There is the fear that you feel in the pit of your stomach when you round a corner going way too fast and you realize there is a good chance you may not make the turn. In an instant you think of exactly how bad it will be when [...]
Posted in Baja, Family, Travel, tagged amber jewelry, Baja Brewing Company, Baja travel, Mega Lo-Mart, San Jose del Cabo on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
San Jose del Cabo is the other Cabo.
Historically speaking, the 200 year-old San Jose del Cabo has more of the worn commercial district look as you come into the old historic district than it’s much younger cousin, Cabo San Lucas with it’s ritzy hotels and night-clubs. But San Jose has had tremendous growth in newer hotels and modern businesses. [...]
Posted in Baja, Family, Humor, tagged Baja travel, pet boarding, traveling with pets on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I’m here with mi familia enjoying the beauty of Baja, mostly away from crowds and cars and especially Cabo, and what did I get when I checked my email this evening but a whiny missive from the mongrels. That’s right, I actually got an email from the younger of the two canine domestics chastising [...]
Posted in Adventure, Family, Humor, Midlife, Travel on February 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The range of travel being written about runs the gamut from the near-death experiences (the extreme or adventure stories), to the pampered cruise ship or five star hotel stories. Sometimes it seems that certain writers may be at least slightly judgmental as to what constitutes real travel.
Spend enough time reading travel magazines or watching adventure shows [...]
Posted in Family, Humor, Midlife on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, it’s that time of year again.
As we sit around the fireplace, roasting our nuts - wait a minute, I don’t like the sound of that as I’m the only male around here - oh, our walnuts - we think of all our friends far and wide (I know, I know - the latter is [...]
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