Southern Oregon Travelog 2
Saturday, 26 May 2018, 11:30am - Medford, OR

We arrived in Medford moments ago and are waiting at a local restaurant to meet our friend, Abditus, for lunch. (I'm marking him here as a user even though I don't think he's touched this platform for several years. We'll see if he even gets the ping anymore ( Read more... )

Sunday, 28 Jan 2018, 11pm.

As the second half of our half-day trip to Sonoma Valley today (the first half was wine tasting, natch) we attended a live show of Whose Live Anyway? in Santa Rosa. The show is similar to the TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? Four comedians perform improvisational humor based on audience suggestions ( Read more... )

Sunday, 28 Jan 2018, 6pm.

Today we've taken a day trip to Sonoma County. ...Okay, more of a half-day trip as we didn't leave home until after lunch. Our main reason for the trip is attending a live show of Whose Live Anyway? in Santa Rosa later tonight ( Read more... )

Pacific Northwest Travelog 2
Ashland, OR. Saturday, 1 July 2017. 1:30pm.

We rolled out of the parking lot of our hotel in Corning, CA this morning shortly after 9am. We only stayed for " 8 hours and a shower" as I noted in my previous journal. Take a look at this view from our hotel room window....


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First, a bit of good news. After public safety officials ordered 188,000 people to evacuate communities downstream from Lake Oroville Dam on Sunday evening (see my blog from yesterday) they announced just a few hours ago that it is safe for residents to return. Example news coverage: Sacramento Bee article, Feb 14Perhaps because I wanted to be a ( Read more... )

The heavy winter precipitation California has received recently is both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing, as it refills reservoirs and aquifers dangerously depleted by several consecutive years of drought. It's a curse, when the rain comes so hard and so fast that it leads to disaster. Several cities in Northern California are now on brink ( Read more... )

Sunday, 6 Nov 2016. 6pm.

After visiting the beautiful and delicious Nelson Family Vineyards outside of Ukiah (see Ukiah Wine Tasting) we headed back into town in search of lunch. Merhawk was interested in slumming it with a burger and fries. I was okay with slumming it, but her Yelp search led us to a place that was a little too slummy for me, a food ( Read more... )

Sunday, 6 Nov 2016. 10am.

Yes, we're in Ukiah again. Ukiah. It rhymes with You-pie-uh. Yes, we were here just recently, about 6 weeks ago; see 11 Hours in Ukiah. No, we don't have some crazy attraction to this town of fewer than 20,000 people in rural Mendocino County about 110 miles north of San Francisco. It's just a place that's convenient to ( Read more... )

Saturday, 5 Nov 2016. 11pm.

By the time I finished visiting four wineries Saturday it was just past 5 o'clock. Time to get on with our other plans for the day. Plus, all the wineries close by 5pm ( Read more... )

Saturday, 5 Nov 2016. 5pm.

As I wrapped up my visit at Alexander Valley Vineyards (see previous blog) I texted Hawk about the Hawkes winery I'd seen a few miles down the road. ...That's right, Hawk wasn't with me on this part of the trip. We split off when we arrived in Healdsburg earlier in the day. She went to troll shops in the artsy downtown ( Read more... )