When I first stepped onto Main Street in Bodie, it seemed to me as alive as any small town. After a few minutes I began to see how wrong...

On our way back from a recent road trip to the San Juan Islands, we decided to drive the Lost Coast. I think is was more than 20 years...

The hotels industry reopened this week in Monterey, so I booked a room at the Spindrift Inn on Cannery Row. Situated on the beach, the...

Today's daylight is so filtered due to smoke in the upper atmosphere that I keep thinking there is a solar -->

Last Friday, Cal Fire gave the great light to "repopulate" our area. It's not that the CZU Complex fire was out, but the threat to our area

The air looked hazy, but not too bad, from the village of Saratoga at 11:00 AM. So I went home to pack up a few -->

One of the advantages of staying in the village of Saratoga while the CZU fire complex has me on the run, is that the Saratoga High...

The CZU fire complex continues, and so does the evacuation order. Given that the flames are not near our property -->

Situated on the Saratoga Creek, The Inn is a boutique hotel that was acquired by Hilton not too long ago. For anyone visiting -->

I planted my three tomato plants so late that I still have a month to wait before my tomatoes are ready to eat. But my -->

I've taken 1,693,819 steps since March 16. That's an average of more then 12,000 steps per day, every day, seven -->

Dmitri Shostakovich’s first opera, The Nose, is a satirical tale of a St. Petersburg official who wakes up without a nose—just a -->

I purchased a ticket to watch the Bayreuth (Germany) production of Tannhäuser, but the streaming link never arrived. Glen and I were -->

These are the days of reverse travel. I had planned to be in Germany this month for the Bayreuth Festival. Instead, the -->

With the lack of travel due to COVID, I was delighted to hear that the Earth has a visitor from the solar system-->

I am a traveler. After 16 trips last year and 2 earlier this year, it was difficult to have my travel life come to a screeching -->

My idea of local and distant travel has been shaped by my having crossed the Antarctic Circle, the Arctic Circle -->

When most people think of Napa, the towns in the valley come to mind—Napa, St. Helena, Yountville, Oakville, Calistoga, and -->

Great Basin National Park sits on the eastern side of Nevada. To get to Califonia from there requires driving route 50, which is called →

Great Basin National Park is one of the few areas where you can find the bristlecone pine. A short hike (2.8 miles round trip) with some →