Once upon a time my little home town was put on the map by the national news and it was not for a good thing. In 2013 we had a crazy and cold blooded cop killer on the loose in Southern California. In the few weeks that Chris Dorner was on the run he eventually …
Month: June 2015
14,505 feet. I never imagined that I would ever stand atop a mountain top that high. I never in my life could imagine how spectacular the views of Sequoia National Park could be from that elevation. I never knew how physically tough ninety nine switchbacks could be as my legs powered through them. I never …
Today I sat in my small town library and tried to work on my blog in relative silence. Libraries are supposed to be a quiet place to get work done and concentrate, right? Some one needs to tell meth mouth sitting next to me this. …
If there was lesson to be learned from today’s adventure in the forest it was always get a wilderness pass even if you’re taking a familiar trail and you think that you know the wilderness well. This morning’s plan with the pups was to do a simple loop of Lost Creek Trail. It should have …
Our vacation began with me almost getting in a fight over an ewok in the lobby. I seriously did not mean to insult Chewbacca’s service dog when we were trying, in a very long process, to check into the Best Western Hotel in Los Alamitos. Seriously; I have been to Vegas more times than I …