San Pedro Ports O’ Call Village is a cute fifteen acre water front New England fishing village, filled with gift shops, restaurant, sweetshops and fish markets, and on the verge of being redeveloped. Reading about the redevelopment, we headed out for one last look, and we found most shops were already empty, cracked and settled […]
For years we have enjoyed exploring lighthouses in Maine, Oregon and Washington. Last weekend we decided it was time to check lighthouses in our own backyard, so we headed to Palos Verdes and San Padro in Southern California. Our first stop was Point Vicente Lighthouse. Unfortunately we quickly discovered Point Vicente Lighthouse is only opened […]
While visiting Emily we took a road trip to Flagstaff to explore and discovered a cute town. The city is named after a ponderosa pine flagpole made by a scouting party from Boston to celebrate the United States Centennial on July 4, 1876. The flagpole was a trail marker for wagon trains bound for California […]
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, east of Owens Valley, located in White Mountains part of Inyo County at an elevation of approximately 10,000 feet. This was well worth the long drive, the place had beautiful views and a quiet walk on a well posted trail.
Using our Eastern High Sierra Fall Color Guide we headed out to see what California had to offer by way of fall colors. We started out early Saturday morning, made a stop in Bishop, before heading to June Lake. We stayed overnight in Mammoth Lake before our return trip through Convict Lake, McGee Creek, and […]
In February 19, 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Manzana, located in teh […]
Devils Postpile National Monument is an unusual rock formation of columnar basalt, located near Mammoth Mountain.