Two years ago Kerri and I planned to spend a serious amount of time exploring the state we both grew up in – California. For me, even though I spent 37 years here, I rarely got out and explore the state. Sure, I drove the Reno or L.A., and I...
It has been a while since I made one of these posts. Funny enough, the few posts I have done in the past on this subject (Washington, Oregon, & Alaska/Canada) have great view numbers. Lots of people read them, van-dwellers and not, so I decided some time back to get...
Redwoods National Park, I’ve been here before, a few times in fact. The problem is that in previous years coming through this area I have been unable to stop and do anything of significance within the park. My work at the time, and the lack of cell signal anywhere nearby,...
Since we had a half day to go do something before arriving at Aunt Claudia’s, Kerri set us out to hike another trail – the third in two days – at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. I will admit that none were long or difficult, but I have been feeling...
Knowing we would be in the area a day earlier than our scheduled arrival at Kerri’s Aunt’s place, Kerri reserved a spot at her childhood favorite place to camp in California; Patrick’s Point State Park. I’m usually not the biggest fan of State Parks, but will make an exception for...
Arriving in the Shasta area, Kerri had planned for us to explore a particular area that she found some interesting things on her map. Since we had a few days before the work week began we were without the constraints of needing a cell signal. That meant exploring a ton...
We left Lassen National Forest after two weeks of roaming around the back roads surrounding the national park. We chose to spend one more week up in the mountains to avoid the heat of the valley. It was the Shasta area that we wanted to see next, so Northward we...
The primary reason we came to this part of California was to see the wonder that is Lassen Volcanic National Park. Though we had distracted ourselves with other adventures for two weeks, we finally got into the park-proper at the very end of our stay in the area. Sadly, the...
With plans to finally go into Lassen Volcanic National Park the following weekend, we backtracked a half hour’s drive to position ourselves not far out of the North entrance. There are so many forest roads all over the place up here, all mostly in fantastic condition too, we would have...
