Road Trip

Road Trip, Day 5: My Birthday in Chinatown

  March 13, 2015    I was born in San Francisco and it was the only place I wanted to be on this ending-in-zero birthday.  More specifically, in Chinatown, like China, but better in some ways.  I’ve loved it for as long…

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A man, a dog, and 300,000 miles by motorcyle

Remember Travels with Charley? Move over, John Steinbeck. Here’s another story of a man on a mission, traveling America’s roads with his dog—and this time it’s by motorcycle.   The journey began several years ago, when Ara Gureghian’s son…

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Travelocity survey: What bugs you on road trips?

This may be one of the best road trip years ever, with much lower gas prices than over the past few…and Travelocity’s new survey of 1000 potential vacationers says that 65% more are considering a road trip than were thinking about it last year….

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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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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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Road Trip, Day 5: My Birthday in Chinatown

  March 13, 2015    I was born in San Francisco and it was the only place I wanted to be on this ending-in-zero birthday.  More specifically, in Chinatown, like China, but better in some ways.  I’ve loved it for as long…

Read More

A man, a dog, and 300,000 miles by motorcyle

Remember Travels with Charley? Move over, John Steinbeck. Here’s another story of a man on a mission, traveling America’s roads with his dog—and this time it’s by motorcycle.   The journey began several years ago, when Ara Gureghian’s son…

Read More

Travelocity survey: What bugs you on road trips?

This may be one of the best road trip years ever, with much lower gas prices than over the past few…and Travelocity’s new survey of 1000 potential vacationers says that 65% more are considering a road trip than were thinking about it last year….

Read More

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

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