I wrote in my previous blog about driving to Fresno on Friday night. It was more, though, than just "Leave home, drive 168 miles, 'You Have Arrived at Destination.'" The drive involves a number of legs of travel and points of interest that are so usual to me nowadays I often pass by them without even thinking. But what are they? Here are Five ( Read more... )

Saturday, 11 Mar 2017, 11am.We arrived in Paso Robles last night around 10:30pm. Our trip down from home went about as expected. There was some traffic congestion leaving the Bay Area, but after a dinner stop in Gilroy it was smooth sailing the rest of the way. We arrived in time for a late-night soak in the hotel's hot tub ( Read more... )

I mentioned yesterday that we visited Pinnacles National Park this weekend. One thing I skipped over when I started describing the park is the trip we took to get there. Pinnacles isn't exactly in our backyard. ...Well, okay, we do think of it as "in our backyard" but it's actually some 110 miles (177 km) away-- a distance to drive that would give ( Read more... )

Friday evening we drove from Sunnyvale to Porterville, CA. As I mentioned in my previous journal, we pulled the plan together almost on the spur of the moment. Within the space of an hour we went from not knowing how we were going to spend our long holiday weekend to having hotel reservations for two nights and packing the car for a drive of 240 ( Read more... )