Space is hard to come by in San Francisco. Prices are high. Land is scarce. You make do with what you’ve got. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. So when I heard the newest national park space was being built on top of a busy SF highway tunnel, the...
Houses abandoned overnight, clothes left on hangers, meals interrupted and never finished — no, this isn’t the setting of a post-apocalyptic movie, but the reality of how many of California’s more than 3,800 ghost towns were deserted and left to rot. Creeped...
If you live anywhere that isn’t right next to a national park, then you know it can take hours to reach a nice hiking trail: often deep in the woods, oftener with limited cell reception. When it was just the two of us, no problem. My wife and I don’t mind...
Mount Rainier National Park is the summer trip that finally gets everyone off their devices. Surrounded by small towns that border the park's parameters, Mt. Rainier National Park is located 100-miles south of Seattle and 60 miles east of Tacoma, making for...
Visalia is the best little town you've never heard of. Or at least we hadn't. The city of Visalia, nicknamed "The Gateway To Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks," in the San Joaquin Valley, is the last metropolitan area visitors encounter before they...
Add color and culture into your family’s Cinco de Mayo celebration by visiting historic Olvera Street, the "Birthplace of Los Angeles." Less than a block from Union Station in the heart of Los Angeles, Olvera Street (“La Placita Olvera”) is a conveniently...