Most recent first | Chronological order
August 2021 - Escape the Wildfire Smoke on the Cali Coast
October 2019 - Idaho and Utah
- Hard to get started during a cold snap
- Weather was nice while it lasted
- Don't go to Lava Hot Springs on the weekend
- Maybe Utah will be warmer
- Good Weather and Bad Chicken
- Food poisoning got better, weather got worse
- Very, very, very cold weather sends me south
- Up 395 and over Yosemite to Family Time
August 2019 - Family Fun in the Redwoods
- Family Fun in Petaluma
- Fun-filled Labor Day Weekend in the Redwoods
- Nostalgic Eureka Visit
- Beautiful Streams of the Northern Sierra
June 2019 – The 395-95 Loop
March 2019 - Spring Break
August 2018 Lewis & Clark
- One small step ...
- Up the Pacific Coast
- Get my business done, follow Lewis & Clark up the Columbia
- Glacial Lake Missoula and the Cataclysmic Floods
- Glacier National Park and Northwest Montana
- Great Falls and Fort Benton
- Every Place Is A Fort - Peck, Buford, Mandan ...
- The Missouri River turns south, so did Lewis, Clark, and I
- The Missouri has a lot of dams on it
- I've hit the humidity wall. Already can't wait till it's over.
- Kansas City then Missouri, the State
- Here I am in the Ozarks again
- When does the South get Deep?
- Missouri calls it a Spring, Florida calls it a Springs
- Heading north two days ahead of Hurricane Michael
- The visiting part of the trip
- Life at a higher level than I'm used to
- Washington DC and the Potomac
- Appalachians in the Fall
- The Cumberland Plateau
- Natchez Trace and the Delta
- Arkansas
- A cold snap in Oklahoma changes my thinking
- Van trouble changes my thinking even more
- As long as we wake up in a warm place, we're good
- Familiar Las Vegas to Lone Pine run
- Closing stanza of the trip
October 2017 - 395 and Utah
- Fall Colors are Really Happenin'
- Gotta cross Nevada to get to Utah
- Utah 12 Run - Bryce, Escalante, Boulder
- Utah 24 to 95 - Fruita, Hanksville to Blanding
- A couple of days around Moab
- Utah west of I-15 is basically Nevada
- Crossing Nevada on US 50 one more time
September 2017 - 395 to the North Bay
August 2017 - Return to Eureka
July 2016 Nostalgia Tour
- Finally starting
- Making decisions, Spending money
- Eastern Oregon to Boise
- Idaho
- Wyoming
- Hey, I'm in the Midwest!
- Nostalgia Week, where I become America's Guest
- No more deadlines, back in the groove
- Missouri has many beautiful springs
- Even more Missouri springs
- Still Hot, Still Humid
- Van maintenance and more Oklahoma
- Less hot and not humid, almost to the mountains
- Life at 7,000 feet: the Colorado Plateau
- The Rockies are busy in the summer
- Making my slow way to Aspen
- After Aspen
- Colorado Plateau is hot ... but it's a Dry Heat
- A little more Utah than I'd planned
- Everybody's out for Labor Day Weekend
- Southern Idaho has Hot Springs
- Boise again, then Bend ... and a detour
- Treat myself to some beach days
- Birthday with the Family
- One last bit down 395 before wrapping up my Big Adventure
April 2016 Baby and Oregon
March 2016 Hot Springs
August 2015, Eureka, Oregon and Butt Lake
Hickeyfest
February 2015 - Eureka
- Two nights for the price of one
- Northeast Cali is really empty
- Oregon in February
- Eureka and fishing creeks
October 2014 - Aspens and Desert
- Misdirection trip - Fall Colors
- Misdirection Trip - Desert
- Misdirection trip - lower Nevada
- Misdirection trip - upper Nevada
- Misdirection trip - Family Part
August 2014 - Family twice
May 2014 - 395 and Eureka
October 2013 - Idaho
- October 2013 Government Shutdown
- The Snake
- The Salmon
- Snake again, the Columbia
- Pacific Coast and the family
short trips
Southwest Spring 2013
- I should get out in the spring more often
- It's already summer in Death Valley
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Utah
- Nevada
So Cal Spring 2013
- Three generations, family fun!
- Really starting. day 5 for me, day 1 for them
- So Cal
- Southern Desert
- Nevada in February
October 2012 - Istanbul
August 2012 - too darned hot
May 2012 - Springtime in Nevada
September 2011 Northwest Tour
- Fall 11, get myself going…
- now for the vacation part of the trip
- Idahohoho
- Montana
- Yellowstone
- post-parkganza
- mouse in the house!
- end game
March 2011 - Spring Break
Fall 2010 East Coast
- 100926 – Big Trip
- 100928 – Star Valley, WY
- 100929 – Wyoming is very wide
- 100930 – Casper to Nebraska
- 101001 – west midwest
- 101005 - east midwest
- 101007 - Reunion vortex
- 101013 - New England
- 101016 - off the grid in Vermont
- 101021 - back on the road
- 101022 - weekend with Dylan and the fall-seeking New Yorkers
- 101024 - I'm moving, but I ain't relaxing!
- 101026 - ahhh, the Eastern Shore
- 101028 - DC
- 101101 - Deliverance country
- 101103 - Chapel Hill
- 101107 - back to the coast
- 101109 - ferry to the other side
- 101110 - the coast
- 101112 – South Carolina
- 101113 – Charleston
- 101114 - Lowlands to Midlands
- 101117 - Savannah
- 101119 - Florida
- 101128 - starting back
- 101130 - Florida Panhandle
- 101201 - Gulfport
- 101203 - Louisiana, home of the drive-thru daiquiri stand
- 101205 - East Texas
- 101210 - West Texas
- 101212 - Mountain Time
- 101215 - weather comin'
June 2010 Oregon
- Heading to Lake Oswego ... Again ...
- 100617 – gettin’ my stuff done
- 100618 Edgefield
- 100619 Herman's Creek CG
- 100620 - Edgefield ... again ...
- 100621 – Elkhorn Valley CG (BLM)
- 100622 - Lookout CG, Blue Lake OR
- 100623 - Summer Lake Hot Springs
- 100624 - meadow, Modoc NF
August 2009 Oregon
April 2008 - Irvine Trip
(short trips with only one story)
Nor Cal
- 100831 – Sardine Lake
- 100901 – the Lake Country
- June 2012 - Sardine Lake again
- On the road, with appreciation
- Car fixin, Move helpin, Bird watchin, Parking lot sleepin
- Birthday in Chico
- Frigid family trip
- Christmas Trip
- February Family
- Post-election visit to the family
- Dec 2016 Christmas Visit
- Feb 2017 - Floods and Family
- April 2017, Family and Basketball
- May 2017, Penultimate Eureka Visit
- June 2017 End of an Era
- NorCal quickie before Artown