Back in the days when divorces were a little more difficult to get, Reno was the divorce capital of the world (very convenient since the quickie wedding capital of the world, Las Vegas, was just down the road). You might think that after a few years of non-stop, close-quarters travel, I would be a little worried that, largely at DH's insistence, we were heading for a town with a reputation for offering up quick solutions to nagging marital problems. Not only ...

We were well and truly on the ocean road that would take us on a scenic drive all the way north to Canada so the first thing we did was… get off the road and head back into the heart of California to take in a number of well known sites including Yosemite, Sequoia National Park and Death Valley (with DH at the wheel driving in a straight line is just not going to happen). It was a great plan but nobody told us about the snow in California might impact your ...

Heading north from Death Valley presented us with two options. We could stay in California and head along Hwy 395 which would deliver a wonderfully scenic drive, and we might even be able to duck into Yosemite (although the excess snow is not being cooperative). The second option would see us cross into Nevada for a less spectacular drive, but one that seems loaded with the wild, wacky, and weird stops that I love (and as much as she grumbles, even DH is getting ...

After our brief stay in Perry Mason's town, we were firmly on the Pacific Coast Hwy (Hwy 1) that would take us most of the way north (with 1 major detour to Death Valley). An early stop was going to be Santa Barbara but we weren’t going there for the surfing. Some years ago we had met Rami and his wife, Cindy, on an Antarctic exploration boat and we had stayed in touch ever since. Rami has been struggling with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and we...

The reason we had a meandering slow-motion drive to close out our Route 66 experience was in the hope that we'd be able to hook up with a friend we had met in a Costa Rican pool some years ago. Having spent time within the U.S. political system on the Democratic side of the fence, when we first met him, Lance S seemed slightly left of Fidel Castro, but he seems to have mellowed with time. Instead of "capitalist pigs" he was now referring to the 1% as “f...