LIVING

A lot of the coastline in Northern California is pretty rough. There are beautiful views of the ocean crashing violently into cliffs in many spots but for a non local it’s hard to find beaches to hang out on. Surprisingly, our kids are not as much about the vistas, and more about the action. They want to feel the sand beneath there feet and experience the cold salty water. We found a good beach in Crescent City appropriately named Crescent Beach. The temperature was in the si

We spent some time in some old growth redwood forests while we were in Crescent City but we wanted more so we moved on to campground in Fortuna, Ca where we could be close to the Avenue of the Giants. This is a 30 plus mile stretch along an old part of highway 101 that winds through redwood trees. There are a lot of places to stop along the side of the road and nice small hikes through the trees for little ones. IF your are in Northern California, I highly recommend that you

As we prepared for our trip on the road we got rid of most of our STUFF. We sold some of it, we gave away some of it, we put a little in storage. We threw away more than we thought we would. It turns out that a lot of our stuff that we thought was worth keeping was worthless to everyone else. Go figure. We had a room in our house called the crap room for crying out loud. A room full of stuff that we acknowledged was crap. Not a storage room, a crap room. Why do we need so muc

Our next stop after Mt Ashton was Ashland, Oregon. So far, this has been our favorite town to visit. This small town has a lot going on. We are quite a bit behind on our posts so I am going to force feed Ashland to you all in one post. Here is what we found there. Art Galore The first Friday of every month there is an art walk downtown. We were lucky enough to attend October’s art walk. There are a plethora of art galleries in Ashland so you just walk from gallery to gallery

I was led to believe that the end of the world was going to occur on September 27th, 2015 after the fourth blood moon. On the potential last day on earth, we ended up in Mt. Shasta California, which was a great place to welcome in Armageddon. There is a nice end of the world vibe in the town that has the awe inspiring Mt Shasta looming over it. According to the The United States Geological Survey, Mount Shasta is a dormant volcano that will likely erupt in the future and rate

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In a previous article I described the requirements for what a butt trip is and how they are scored. I am a little worried about the butt trip to Unionville, Nevada, as it might be the highest scoring butt trip we go on this year and all of our future butt trips will be less butty than this one. We will have to see. When I was reading about things to do in Winnemucca I found out that there were a lot of ghost towns around that area from old silver strikes. I found out that in

While we were in Winnemucca we read some great reviews of the Humboldt museum. Our children have requested that we not go to museums. We decided to go regardless of their feelings. We are, after all, parents. The Humboldt museum was interesting. When you go to museums on a slow Thursday afternoon in a small town, you are often the only ones there. This was the case for our visit. The curator was extremely nice and he gave us what I would call the red carpet treatment. He took

One of the goals we have as we travel is to eat some foods that are original to certain cultures and have our family try some new things that we haven’t had in the past. While we were in Winnemucca we found out that the Basque culture is very prominent in parts of Nevada. I didn’t know a lot about the Basque culture but here is a little history from Winnemucca’s own official site. “People of Basque heritage originate from four provinces in Northern Spain and three adjacent re

Today’s lesson is on not judging a book by its cover. The new saying we have in our family to replace is it is don’t judge a city from how it looks from the freeway. At the risk of offending the multitude of Winnemuccans (or is it Winnemuccaites) that follow our blog, I want to tell you about why I now heed that saying. We have lived in the Salt Lake, City area for 18 years and so we have had a lot of opportunities to travel through Nevada on I-80 on our way to California. We