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Guide to San Francisco I’ve been coming to San Francisco since 1990 and have lived here since 1994. It’s been my home for more than twenty years. I love sharing my current favorites with friends and family whether they are locals up for an adventure or just visiting the city that has my heart. Marlowe – SoMa, […]
Exploring the Ansel Adams Wilderness This may have been my very favorite day on the our Eastern Sierra Road Trip. We hiked trails we’d never been on before and explored a wilderness new to us. I’d seen images of Devils Postpile and had always wanted to see it in person. There is just something fascinating […]
Mammoth Lakes | An Eastern Sierra Road Trip When writing about our family’s road trips, I always wonder if the story to tell here is more about the destinations or the priceless act of road tripping itself. I am often trying to convince families to create space for road trips in their travel planning. There is […]
Boating and Fishing on Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra Another gorgeous morning in the Eastern Sierra! We began our day with coffee and pastries at Schat’s Bakery. That place is off the rails crazy good. We packed a picnic and headed up to Convict Lake where we’d rent a boat for the day. Fishing […]
An Eastern Sierra Road Trip to Rock Creek Lake Adventuring along on our Eastern Sierra Road Trip – Day 2 brought us to Rock Creek Lake and Rock Creek. We set out with the goal of catching some fish, but were completely shut out. This is apparently not typical for the area – clearly some […]
Our Eastern Sierra road trip continues to Mono Lake, California. I’ve always been fascinated by Mono Lake. Water rights have been a long contested aspect of the north/south divide in California. Long ago, when Los Angeles started to grow faster than their water supply could handle, they relied on their neighbors to the north to […]
Reminiscing about one of my most favorite summer trips with my family. It’d have to be 4 days spent on an Eastern Sierra Road Trip last summer. We left Lake Tahoe and made our way around the lake and over the pass to the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, a lesser traveled part […]