Finding Your Way in a Hostile World

Finding Your Way in a Hostile World

April 17-18: Death Valley and the Amargosa Opera House As we drove south on Rte 395 and east on 190 through the menacing landscape called Death Valley, we imagined the extraordinary hardships that pioneers, explorers, Mormons and gold rushers endured as they tried to...
Bears and Bowling Balls

Bears and Bowling Balls

April 15-16 We packed up Easy Rider in the 65-degree sunshine at Sanchez St. in the Castro, and savored a final cup of tea, overlooking the hidden garden of our neighbor. We bid goodbye to this fragrant bower with two resident turtle doves, a little green humming...
Heading Home to Boston

Heading Home to Boston

We’ve had an amazing three months in San Francisco and Berkeley, but now that the snows are melting back East, and the boys are swinging their bats, it’s time to head home. Easy Rider is tanned, rested and ready. We the drivers, not so much, thanks to a...
And So It Ends…

And So It Ends…

Jan. 15 Salinas to San Francisco We surprised ourselves by skipping our beloved Monterey aquarium, and setting off instead to see something new: the John Steinbeck center in Salinas. Here on display was Rocinante–his Travels With Charley camper–and other...