We should be counting our blessings that here we are in California on a seventy three degree February day. We should be hiking in snow shoes instead of shorts. I really, really wish we had some snow Usually February is a time when few people go hiking at San Gorgonio and the ones that …
In December of 1952 a air force plane, a DC 3 left Omaha Nebraska headed towards March Air Force Base in Riverside, California. By the time the plane reached Southern California there was a brutal snow storm in the area. This plane would never reach March AFB and instead crash landed some where in the …
I feel like we are in the wild, wild west, yet some how I am still technically in Southern California just a few hours south of Los Angeles. We drove two hours south east of the sprawling suburbia and consumerism that engulfs Southern California. No joke; I have not seen a Target or a Bed …
It’s a beautiful day to drive to Mammoth. Southern California reminds me more of Connecticut today as we drive through the blink and you will miss them towns of Lone Pine, Big Pine and Independence, California. The leafless trees are so spooky looking against the harse blue sky. They remind me of …
I never saw the champion race mare Ruffian run, unless you count old videos form the seventies of the day she broke down in a match race with the Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure. I have to imagine the Unite States Champion mare, okay California’s darling, Zenyatta,would be a Ruffian type mare. I mean a …