Blogs from California, United States, North America - page 1139

I'm On The Drug That Killed River Phoenix..... .......but more on that later! Sorry to all for the lack of updates, It has been crazy busy around here the last few days, so let me fill you in. Like i mentioned in the last update, we arrived on the 3rd and from there.....pretty much fell straight to sleep. Being on the go for upwards of 24 hours, sitting in one spot, really takes it out of you. I dunno how I let myself forget that every time i travel. But, moving on, sporting nothing more than a numb arse, on the 4th we checked out Vans, making a few appointments to see some for sale. The first one apparently didn't exist, he told us he was at #600, but the street numbers went 599, 601, 603...etc ... read more

late morning coffee (our last good one before roadside coffee again!) with sean and lisa. took a walk around santa clara uni and then to st clare's school to check out sean's mural that he did with the kids when he taught there. spent past hour now putting up our travel blog, so we hope that you all are enjoying checking it out even though our writing skills are most likely not as humorous or interesting as we would like. nudge nudge wink wink we also have a new member, lisa! horay! she is coming back with us. ... read more

Everything is pulled together. Paul, my son called from Berlin very early this AM wondering if we'd left for London and informed me there had been a t. bombing in Central London! I've gotten this far, so how can I let this incident stop us? Today, I set about copying documents I've been collecting over the years. Our time in Paris and french countryside seems almost Da Vinci code-ish! Before we trek into the french countryside to explore an ancestoral village/s and possibly see if there is a shrine been built for a recently canonized family member (Augustus Schoeffler) I want to track down two paintings supposedly housed in an obscure museum in Paris of Augustus S-- "The Seminary Museum." There's even a Society involved....."Society Of Foreign Missions of Paris." We'll see.... (at least we aren't ... read more

we arrived in Truth or Consequences or TORC, as the locals call it, at 3 in the morning.... and were met by a sweet hippie lady and her dog bruno. we crashed and woke to the heat, as per usual. we spent the morning lounging in mineral baths and went swimming in the rio grande... it was amazing! the afternoon we seemed to linger, unable to get out of TORC... first it was the yummy smoothies and then it was a cool thrift store called the Old Rose... and then about an hour in a health food store with an old lady who apparently loves us.... eventually we got out of there and headed through the hill country. we arrived in arizona at our campsite quite late... we wanted to stay there because it is in ... read more

Just minutes from our home in Cool, in the heart of the gold country, the Auburn State Recreation Area (Auburn SRA) covers over 35,000 acres along 40-miles of the North and Middle Forks of the American River. Once teeming with thousands of gold miners, the area is now a natural area offering a wide variety of recreation opportunities to over 500,000 visitors a year. Major recreational uses include hiking, swimming, boating, fishing, camping, mountain biking, gold panning, equestrian riding trails and off-highway motorcycle riding. Whitewater recreation is also very popular on both forks of the river. Auburn SRA is made up of the lands set aside for the Auburn Dam. California State Parks administers the area under a contract with the US Bureau of Reclamation. ... read more