Still Thinking Roadtrips

My Skywatch post. See more skies from around the world at the Skywatch site: http://skyley.blogspot.com/ Once I get behind the wheel of Old Paint, it seems it’s hard for me to take my foot off the gas. So I’m already thinking about what my next roadtrip will be. Several things are going to govern the choice of my next destination: 1) The economy. After the blow-out at the...

The Good, The Bad and Richard Nixon

Day Two of our roadtrip was a day of wild extremes, one near disaster, a fast save and a quick sidetrip down a different historical path than the one we’d planned. But that’s the thing about roadtrips. You better plan that something will not go according to plan. We started the day surrounded with the trappings of wealth. First at the Hotel Bel-Air, then at the Getty,...

Day One: Stolen Water and the Flowers of...

The first leg on our roadtrip to see the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano involved driving down the length of California’s Central Valley. You probably don’t know the Central Valley, even if you’ve travelled to California. Maybe not even if you live in California. The Central Valley is the Rodney Dangerfield of California. People sight-see down the Pacific...