Today we’re on the road back to LA. I was disappointed yesterday to not go north, not camp in the old growth redwoods, and not visit Marne and John in Mendocino. Oh and being sick! What a bummer. But today on the road feels nice, with Sofia behind the wheel. And waking up cozy at Kaytee’s house while frost covered… Read more →
Today I (Sammy) woke up sick with a chest cold, so we reconfigured our “spontaneous” plan to camp and head further north and decided we would head back down to LA tomorrow. We ended us spending another night in Fairfax with Kaytee, walked in the woods behind her house, got massages and hot tub time at her spa workplace and… Read more →
We spent a lovely rainy night in Fairfax, at the end of a road beginning of a trailhead beside a roaring creek. After dropping Kaytee off at work in Mill Valley this morning we had delicious coffees at Equator Coffee and then took a spontaneous trip over the Golden Gate Bridge to Shanghai Dumpling King. After filling our bellies we… Read more →
Picking up Kaytee in Pasadena and off we go! We’re such sustainable coffee-goers! Read more →
For Sofia’s birthday we chose to go to Death Valley and spend time in nature. It’s healing. We meant to see the “super bloom,” but it had mostly passed. We went up to Thorndike campground in the Panamint Mountains at 8,500, and hiked almost halfway up to Telescope Peak, which is at about 11,300 feet altitude. We heard there were more… Read more →
A 3-day weekend in Joshua Tree. We missed the turnoff for the West entrance so entered the park from the South entrance for the first time ever. We camped at Black Rock campground and took an 11 mile out and back hike to Lost Palms Oasis. Read more →
On our way up to Sofia’s uncle’s retirement party in San Jose, we stopped in Big Sur and camped at Limekiln State Park for a night. We had a lovely campsite (#23) near the river and the redwoods trail to the old kilns used to extract limestone in the 1800’s. A lovely night under the stars! At the lime kilns… Read more →
