For the past eight years it has been our tradition to visit Danielle sometime in September, on or near her birthday. This year we managed to unite our French family for a birthday celebration; there were a couple of milestone birthdays…
Contemplating the Coast
Highway 101 winds down the entire Oregon Coast from the Columbia River to the California border. We followed the 363 mile coastline, passing (and often visiting) a plethora of lighthouses, amazing beaches and feasting on glorious fresh seafood. There were…
Zigzagging Our Way Home
One thing that can be said about the way we travel is that we usually don’t take the most direct route. In fact, we often find ourselves backtracking to visit a wonderful place that we wanted to see but had…
Only a Week in British Columbia?
I had never considered how vast the province of British Columbia actually is, until we started planning this trip. According to a map I looked at, the entire state of California, half of Nevada, and one third of Oregon will…
Heading North
The Pacific Northwest is closer to where we live than most of the other places we have visited, yet we had not seen most of it. We were to have gone there on our 2012 cross-country journey but had run…
Anniversary Weekend
We recently celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary! Hard to believe but nonetheless true. It was time to return to romantic Carmel-by-the-Sea, the first stop on our 1969 honeymoon. Back then, we had stayed at the same hotel where my parents…