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Road Trip, Day 4: Fort Mason, San Francisco

    March 12, 2015   I drove south through Sonoma and Marin Counties, past the houseboats on the bay at Sausalito, across the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco, and arrived earlier than the hostel’s official 3:00 check-in…

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Death Valley National Park

Death Valley is one of the most desolate place I have been. Others include central Greenland and the Dead Sea. Death Valley is the lowest place in the western hemisphere at 282 feet (86 metres) below sea level. The Dead Sea in Israel is 1,370…

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Road Trip, Day 3: A Sunny Day in Sonoma

  March 11, 2015    The drive down California Highway 1, along the Mendocino and Sonoma County coast, was a bit of a bust.  It started to rain as I arrived at Point Arena and Fort Ross was closed, it turned out, on weekdays, so I…

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What happens to water parks in a drought?

California’s drought and water restrictions are very much in the news these days—and as a prime travel area, that affects tourists as well as locals. And for some attractions, basic questions of survival and sustainability jump out: How can the…

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Monterey’s Fish House, California

Most of us would agree that one of the greatest pleasures of traveling is discovering new and terrific places to eat.  I often research a few possibilities in advance of a trip but while visiting Monterey recently had not done so.  Traveling…

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Road Trip, Day 4: Fort Mason, San Francisco

    March 12, 2015   I drove south through Sonoma and Marin Counties, past the houseboats on the bay at Sausalito, across the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco, and arrived earlier than the hostel’s official 3:00 check-in…

Read More

Death Valley National Park

Death Valley is one of the most desolate place I have been. Others include central Greenland and the Dead Sea. Death Valley is the lowest place in the western hemisphere at 282 feet (86 metres) below sea level. The Dead Sea in Israel is 1,370…

Read More

Road Trip, Day 3: A Sunny Day in Sonoma

  March 11, 2015    The drive down California Highway 1, along the Mendocino and Sonoma County coast, was a bit of a bust.  It started to rain as I arrived at Point Arena and Fort Ross was closed, it turned out, on weekdays, so I…

Read More

What happens to water parks in a drought?

California’s drought and water restrictions are very much in the news these days—and as a prime travel area, that affects tourists as well as locals. And for some attractions, basic questions of survival and sustainability jump out: How can the…

Read More

Monterey’s Fish House, California

Most of us would agree that one of the greatest pleasures of traveling is discovering new and terrific places to eat.  I often research a few possibilities in advance of a trip but while visiting Monterey recently had not done so.  Traveling…

Read More