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 […]
I don’t need to tell you that Paris is a vibrant city full of arts, cuisine, architecture, fashion, and romance. Whether you’ve been to Paris or not, we all have a picture in our minds of what it must be like to walk the cobblestone streets or the grand boulevards that make up Paris. I will […]
Dear friends of ours introduced us to Martha’s Vineyard a few years ago. As a west coaster, the island always sounded something like a fantasy. Where one would hob knob with the likes of presidential families vacationing in large compounds most of us would never experience. What we discovered was a bucolic island of country roads, […]
Lake Tahoe Guide | Summer Edition I was honored to be asked by Ashley, of Hither & Thither to write a piece for her 5 Things Series on Lake Tahoe last winter. And couldn’t be more excited to be back with a complete Summer Guide too! Summer is what first made me fall in love with the Lake Tahoe. […]