Oregon is a hard place to visit. Living there you’d have time to go to all the places to raft or hike or walk the beach, but failing that, any visit of only a week or two has to pass up so many opportunities for fun, there’s always a tinge of regret left with the … Continue reading A Difficult Place →

Bothe-Napa State Park has an umbrella of trees like the live oaks at Hunting island or Edisto Island. The sites are lush, private, and relaxing. Its a great place to hide for a few days, and it’s also an excellent base to explore the north valley. This visit we discovered much more about the smaller … Continue reading Napa Valley to the Coastal Redwoods →

I went looking and decided it was T. S. Elliott I referred to in my last post, and not D. H. Lawrence. I found another one also from him. “Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life’s supreme complications”. I’ll admit that living the simple life is not exactly simple, but … Continue reading T. S. and not D.H. …on the simple life →

I think it was DH Lawrence who wrote a passage about just being on the road is enough. It’s not so much the destination that leads us on but rather the act of moving on to somewhere new. A new beginning each time we pack up and hitch up and check everything twice and drive … Continue reading Yosemite →

You gotta hand it to Tonopah, NV, they do try. Here, where Wyatt Earp and his wife opened a saloon to take advantage of a mining strike, they’re remodeling historical parts of town and spiffing up downtown as if Tonopah might have a bright future in tourism. It doesn’t. A sign on the east side … Continue reading Next gas 167 miles →

Another name for Great Basin might as well be Nevada. In almost the entire state no rivers flow out of the basin, they just dry up in the desert. Great Basin national park is made up of 13,000’ Wheeler Peak and its environs, where water is abundant this time of year. Access to the peak … Continue reading Great Basin National Park →