Category Archives: California

Road II

The Road Goes Ever On and On Embarking on my first travel adventure since the Before Times.  (Other than my Excruciating Neck Pain Christmas in Portland & Road Trip Home™, of course.)

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Galaxy

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Hip

For my trip to California, I continued my trend of staying at dive motels converted to boutique motels: Beck’s Motor Lodge in San Francisco and (once again) the Safari Inn in Burbank.

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Shame

Driving south through California, east of of the Sierra Nevadas, I visited Manzanar.  This was one of the camps where over a hundred thousand Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II.  Only stone outlines remain where the buildings once … Continue reading

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Border

I took a quiet route back through western Nevada.  Nevada State 359 took me to a quiet crossing into California where California State 167 brought me north around Mono Lake. I took a moment and enjoyed the stillness, pondering the … Continue reading

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