In Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck wrote of the Redwoods, “No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe.” It’s impossible to fully appreciate how accurate Steinbeck’s words are until you walk in the Tall Trees and Ladybird Johnson groves…
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San Francisco – An Accidental Pilgrimage
San Francisco wasn’t a place I had ever thought about visiting before this trip, and in some ways we only planned to stay there because it was on the way to the Pacific Northwest. All I really knew about San Francisco was that it’s extremely expensive to live there, and it’s foggy and hilly. I…
California’s Central Coast
We were in for a rude awakening when we hit the central coast of California. After a few weeks in the Southwest where it was at times too hot to move and several hikers actually died from the heat, we had gotten used to having our choice of campsites. After lunch at In-N-Out in Santa…
New Orleans
We spent a week in Florida recovering from and digesting Bolivia with various family and friends – Orlando, Neptune Beach, Destin, and Pensacola. We swam in two oceans, ate local seafood, drank local beer, and enjoyed the company. Many thanks to everyone who gave us a place to crash! From Pensacola we headed west along…
Bolivia – Planes, Trains, and Teleférico
Hold onto your butts, this is going to be a long post. We’ve been back from Bolivia for two weeks and we’re just starting to wrap our heads around it. When Victor asked his friend Brian if we could crash his family vacation and he said yes, we honestly had no idea what to expect….
Asheville, Savannah, and Neptune Beach
(Apologies for the lack of pictures in this post! We are in Bolivia and the wifi is touch and go. I will add some photos when we are stateside.) This leg of the trip was made up mostly of excellent food and places we wished we could have spent more time exploring. Thursday morning we…
The Indigents Abroad 