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 […]
Browsing Tag: CA
Bodie | An Eastern Sierra Road Trip
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 […]
Eagle Lake Hike | Lake Tahoe
Happy Summer! We’ve been playing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains the past two weeks both in the Lake Tahoe Basin and in the Eastern Sierra Mountains near Mammoth. It has me feeling so grateful for this beautiful state of California we call home. I’ve been thinking back to all the hikes we’ve shared through the […]
U-Pick Berry Farm | SF Bay Area
U-Pick Berry Farm – One of our favorite summer traditions opened this week. It’s the much anticipated arrival in our family for opening day of berry picking season. Our local U-pick announced the opening day at their farms this week. I can’t wait to head out their for a fun morning pick and sampling berries […]
Garin Regional Park | East Bay
This year I’ve been working on a little personal experiment I like to call “Heck Ya!” I have been trying to be more self-aware of when opportunities present themselves, where I would have formerly thought them over, decided how they could or could’t fit into my schedule and generally over-thought all the options. I’m trying […]
Quail Lake | Lake Tahoe
If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that our family loves to hike. At first one might not realize how good it feels to take a walk in the woods. but after doing it so very many times, you become aware of just how powerful it can be. Hiking with our kids […]
Tunnel Creek Trail | Lake Tahoe
One of my very favorite ways to explore is to get out in nature with people I love. Recently my husband and I were able to sneak away for a couple of hours for one rad Day Date in Lake Tahoe. Walking in the woods is literally the best way I can think to spend […]