One of my friends is enjoying a retirement lifestyle in Arizona, attending multiple spring training baseball games….living the dream. I noticed that my favorite team, the Cleveland Indians, would be playing my next favorite team, the LA Dodgers. We decided to take a road trip to Glendale and enjoy a game. Here are a few photos…. I also had a little...
My sweetheart had once told me a story of a common road trip her family would take every so often. There is a town a few hours north of Los Angeles called Solvang. It is one of the largest Danish-themed towns in the USA. After hearing her stories, I wanted to see it for myself. So we took off one fine Saturday Morning and headed north. After a few hours of...
After 8 days on the road I really started to miss my home and friends(especially my girlfriend) in California. Here is a song I often have stuck in my head anytime I am away. I was hoping to visit Mt. Shasta, but the mountain was covered with rain clouds. This location is about 7 hours from where I live so I will make it back here some day for a little mountaineering...
Once again, I awoke early to continue my drive. My next destination was to visit Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. This involved a long drive across Oregon that took most of the day. Eventually, I started seeing Mt. Rainier and Mt. Jefferson on the horizon. Here was an interesting stop… I arrived at Crater Lake around 5 pm. This natural formation is even...
There was so much “awesome” to be found in Banff, that I decided to split this post into a second part. One of my biggest desires for more than a decade was to see the BLUE–GREEN lakes. These glacier-fed beauties lie right along the continental divide and basically feed all the rivers splitting out from the rocky mountains and head towards the...
I awoke very early in Calgary, prepared to do a 90-minute drive west into the Canadian Rocky Mountains. My destination was Banff National Park. Banff has been a dream destination of mine for nearly 10 years. It all started when I attended a local Cleveland, Ohio showing of the Banff film festival. I remember watching an inspiring film about Old Snow Skiiers. I...
I started out early, enjoying the drive from Salt Lake City into the mountains. My goal was to head up to Jackson, Wyoming to find Grand Teton, National Park. My first rest stop, east of SLC, I found people feeding Cheetos to squirrels and groundhogs. Outside of this distraction, I found the surrounding red rocks to be beautiful. I made my way into Wyoming, then...
This week I started a road trip I have wanted to do for a few years. My goal is to explore the northwestern USA and a bit of Canada. I’ve not done a whole bunch of planning so there are going to be some unplanned expenses as well as some opportunity costs. But I would regret putting this off any longer. My first destination is Great Basin National Park in...
I’ve lived in Californa for almost 3 years and have wanted to visit Joshua Tree National Park ever since I got here. I finally found some time over the weekend to take a fun road trip with the girlfriend. It is about an hour and a half drive from Irvine. The national park pass I purchased last year at the Grand Canyon got us into the park for free. This place...
Imagine the length of a football field. Next, image a tree as long as that field. Stand the tree upright and you’ve got the monster redwood trees of Northern California. I’d been arguing with myself for a few weeks about driving further north from San Francisco. It’s once thing to do a 7 hour drive there and another thing to do 4 more hours north of...