We worked our way up the coast through the Los Gatos area (beautiful)towards the East Bay. Lea Ann’s cousins Liz and Ron Cooper have a beautiful home in the Blackhawk section of Danville. Easter was a blast! Lea Ann’s Aunt Lou came up from San Jose, and her cousin Greg and his wife Ann came […]
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March 20-28 2026 So, after a couple of false starts due to generator issues, we finally headed north to the Monterey Peninsula area. The drive took us up the spectacular California highway 1, past San Simeon and Big Sur and into Carmel. This is where artichokes farms and strawberry fields line one side of the
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March 13-18, 2026. Slowly moving north from SoCal, our first stop was in San Luis Obispo (SLO). This is a very cute college town – Cal Poly is located here. We went for a breakfast stroll on Saturday in the town center. The St Patrick’s Day activities had already begun. The bars traditionally open at
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February 25-March 13, 2026. So, when we last posted, we had just made our way through the mountains to the shore of the Pacific. It was a little surreal for us. After DRIVING cross country through unusually cold weather, we had at last arrived. Big exhale and high fives all around! Lea Ann had originally
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February 25-March 13, 2026. We have traded the desert for the beach. Our base will be at the northern end of Malibu, which will put us between Santa Barbara where my brother Jon lives, and LA where we have many old friends to catch up with. The weather has been fantastic…70’s during the day and
February 23-25 2026. What a great drive down the mountain from Ramona to the shores of the Pacific! Lots of high-fiving as we got our first glimpse of the “other” ocean. We walked around the harbor at Dana Point, and had a great dinner on the water at Wind & Sea. Our first campsite in
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February 22-2026. Sad to leave Borrega Springs, but the drive to our next stop was spectacular! 50 miles of switchbacks to get up and over the Volcan Mountain range, through the super cute town of Julian (no..we didn’t stop for a pie) to Ramona…home to Hatfield Creek Vineyards. Very relieved not to have driven off
February 20-22, 2026. We took an amazing drive through Joshua Tree NP heading southeast through Box Canyon, past the Salton Sea to the town of Borrega Springs. We had booked a lovely campsite at Anzo-Borrega State Park, which is the 2nd largest state park in the US (after Adirondack). It’s 600,000 acres of the most
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February 16-20, 2026. We left Bob and Roz’s house and headed for the high desert. Lea Ann was very smart, and rented us a wonderful AirBNB for a week in Joshua Tree. WOW! Now we know why U2 recorded an album here. It is truly an amazing place…you can feel the spirit of the land…and
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February 10-16, 2026. A short 2 hour drive on I-10 west from Blythe took us over the mountains and down into the Coachella Valley. Palm Springs, baby! Streets in Palm Springs are named for Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Gene Autrey and Dinah Shore. Entire neighborhoods reflect the mid-century style that made the Rat Pack famous.