Pinnacles National Park (Tom’s Retirement Party)
Trip Date: November 7, 2018
This was another in a series of retirement party trips; this one being for Tommy Two Tone. Tom was already back in his home town of San Luis Obispo so we wanted to camp somewhere sort of in between us and him. It was fun to search for options, although there were not that many…
Blue Lake, Modoc National Forest
Trip Date: November 1, 2018
My brother Mike and I have been dreaming of buying property (and a boat for that matter) for decades now. We came close to buying a very nice small, but modern, cabin outside Taylorsville off North Arm Road. It was a lot of money in about 2006 when we sat in the hot tub in…
Island Park, Idaho, Family Trip
Forest, Hot Springs, Lake/Reservoir, Mountains, National Park, River, Star Gazing, Wild Flowers, Wildlife
Trip Date: June 9, 2018
This is another trip that I didn’t write the story for until some 4 years later. That’s how it goes. Sometimes we travel a lot, or the trips are somewhat close together and I don’t get to the story writing right away and then a couple more trips happen, and then they just get left…
Black Butte Reservoir, US Army Corps of Engineers
Trip Date: March 17, 2017
This was going to be different from the get go. We had just lost our friend Bob from cancer on Monday, and as it turned out we had this trip planned, which lined up to be a great memorial for him and for us. The timing was perfect and the trip attracted quite a crew. …
Keir’s Place in Loyalton
Trip Date: October 28, 2016
This trip did sneak up on me pretty good. I hadn’t been out for what seemed to be months. We were at Sonora Pass in late July. Kristen and I went up to Point Arena for our anniversary in late August. September was busy with parties and gatherings and other good things, but left no…
Indian Valley Reservoir with Jordan, Bureau of Land Management
Trip Date: March 18, 2016
This was a Christmas present from Jordan – he said he would go camping with me to help me collect rocks for the garden. We had discussed this date a while back and fortunately it held – both of us had stuff that could have crept into the weekend if we had let them, but…