Porterville, CA - Sat, 22 September 2018. 11am.

After arriving in Porterville late last night- err, early today- I stayed up until nearly 2 in the morning. Being alert enough to drive means not being able to go to sleep right away. I had notions of getting up early(ish) anyway but those disappeared when I swatted my 8am alarm and slept in until ( Read more... )

Porterville, CA - Sat, 22 September 2018. 12:30am.This weekend Hawk and I are celebrating our anniversary. We started dating 24 years ago. As befits our style we are going hiking this weekend to celebrate our anniversary. So tonight we have driven to... Porterville ( Read more... )

The trip we took last weekend to Porterville (city motto: "Where?") wasn't just an excuse to write a travelog of driving across California's midsection; it was a means to an end. In this case, the end was enjoying the great outdoors of the southern Sierra Nevada ( Read more... )

...Continued from previous journalHeading east from Gilroy, Route 152 threads through the southern end of the Diablo Mountain range. It's a sparsely populated section of California between US-101 and I-5 that feels surprisingly remote given that it's not terribly far from the Bay Area and its millions of inhabitants. In the middle of this nowhere ( 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... )

Friday, 24 May 2014. 4pm

Deciding to cancel our trip to Seattle at the last minute was a tough choice but I think it was the right one. We were too tired from running around the past few weeks ( Read more... )