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Laurel Lakes 4×4 Trail
Looking up the road towards Laurel Lakes At the start of the trail Click here for a downloadable .gpx file to use with your GPS device. Labor Day found us driving a rocky dirt road cut through a...
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Something in the Sky with Diamonds
My artist’s rendering of our night siting. It was around 4am, mid-September at the South Yuba Campground northeast of Nevada City. Natalie and I were sleeping happily. Then nature called (both of us—I...
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Silver City, Idaho
Silver City, Idaho in its heyday in 1892 Click here for a downloadable .gpx file to use with your GPS device. We hadn’t planned on going to Silver City. Heading to Boise up Hwy. 95, the easy way, was...
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Redfish Lake Lodge, Idaho
This is the last post about our trip to Idaho in early October. Pausing by the shores of the Payette River By the time we left Burgdorf Hot Springs we were pretty impressed with Idaho. The place is...
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Bangkok, Thailand!
We just got back from Southeast Asia. Our entry and exit point was Bangkok—what a city. Old, new, fashionable, and traditional, all mix together in this city on the move. Street vendors can be found...
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!
From Bangkok we hopped on a Royal Jordanian flight and about an hour later descended into Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s main airport. Sure, the name’s a mouthful but you do...
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Kota Bharu, Malaysia!
After leaving the Perhentian Islands we found ourselves back in Kuala Besut near what we thought was a bus station. I went to check our options for getting to Kota Bharu, about 30 miles away, from...
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Koh Phi Phi, Thailand!
After a couple of flights and a brief overnight at the very nice Phuket Backpacker Hostel, we boarded a boat for Koh Phi Phi, Thailand’s stunning tropical beauty in the Andaman Sea. Of course, the...
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Koh Lanta, Thailand!
If Koh Phi Phi is a gorgeous, late-night-partying supermodel, Koh Lanta is her cool, super-chill cousin, perhaps not as magazine-cover gorgeous but still quite pretty and charming to boot. Instead of...
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Russian River/West County Gems
View Larger Map Whether you’re coming up to West County for the weekend or moving here for good, here’s a map of some of my favorite spots. Click “View Larger Map” below the map to the left to read all...
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Mendocino Coast: Seafaring. Stylish. Homegrown. Part 2
The first assistant lighthouse keeper’s house at Point Cabrillo Photo: Nik Schulz Another spot we visited for a sense of Mendocino’s seafaring past was Point Cabrillo Lighthouse, which was established...
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Southwest Trip, Part 5: Joshua Tree
Photo: Nik Schulz After leaving the deserts of Arizona we crossed over into the deserts of California. We’d initially planned to camp at Joshua Tree’s south entrance off of the 10 freeway, but we...
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Walking the Nakasendo Way
All photos: Mimi Haddon My friend Mimi, a talented, LA-based photographer, and her husband, Reynald, recently returned from Japan, where they walked the Nakasendo Way, a historic route connecting...
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