Tent by Bishop Lake
Hiking

Backpack to Bishop Pass, California

Backpacking is HARD. And it doesn’t get easier as you get older, even if you have acquired an ultralight sleeping bag. Plus, in many areas of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, […]

Family and Kids

August days in Death Valley

During the summer months at Death Valley, birds sometimes drop out of the sky, killed by the extreme heat. Would our car die as well? As the car slid down […]

Family and Kids

Hello to Manzanar

Back in 7th grade, when I read Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s memoir, Farewell to Manzanar, the wind and sand had buried most remains of the Japanese internment camp that Houston described […]