How rough was the road out to the Lost Coast? Rough enough to shake a hubcap off. These decorative covers are held on by plastic caps that l...

Yesterday marked eleven years of radically changing my life by doing the van life thing. I still love it! And I’ve really enjoyed hanging ou...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by A friend had been researching possible quiet and uncrowded woodland hik...

The past couple of days the Pacific Northwest has been very Pacific Northwestish. The weather has been alternating between drizzle, heavier ...

Eureka and Arcata California are situated along Humboldt Bay and Arcata Bay which are separated from the Pacific by narrow peninsulas. I dro...

Spend a while in the desert and you realize nearly every plant wants to stab you. But, of course, that’s not the only home of vicious vegeta...

I had spent the day at Clam Beach and was returning to Arcata when a patch of heavy rain hit. Rain is good, but not the best thing when driv...

Summer temperatures along the northern Pacific Coast have been fairly even. Upper 60s in the day, upper 40s at night. An easy, predictable, ...

Greetings from Trinidad, California

When I was a kid a news man reported on an incident involving a transient. “Mom, what’s a transient?” “A bum,” she said with a combination o...

It felt like it was time to move along. Things had been fine in Crescent City, but a week there was enough for now. Arcata was calling. Arca...

That small island is Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge. I couldn’t see the sea lions but I could hear them.

Crescent Beach, just south of Crescent City CA, is a long, wide sandy stretch. It’s known as a place to find sand dollars. The trouble with ...

I’ve been in every state except Rhode Island, Alaska and Hawaii. As much as I can remember, in most states, when a U-turn is allowed on a di...