Has your home been invaded by the children of Beelzebub? Let’s discuss. I don’t really mean “children of Beelzebub,” except that I sort of do. Colloquially, you probably know them as deer mice. Admittedly, they are adorable. They have large ears, lovely big eyes, and long, fuzzy tails. They are also harbingers of death. I […]
My kids hate hiking. Because I am a mean mom, I often take them hiking anyway. Over the years, I have become an expert at diverting all of their questions about where we’re going and what we’re doing and for some reason they haven’t caught on enough to just put their feet down and refuse […]
The travel season is over and I am sad. I know California really, really needs the rain and I’m grateful for it, but I’m also allowed to hate it. I hate the mud and I hate wet shopping carts. I hate being stuck indoors because it’s too wet to go exploring. Now that I have […]
You may have noticed I did not post anything last week. That is because I was off having a magical experience with my family. And I know it was magical, just based on the fact that I am now imagining that any of my three readers noticed I did not post anything last week. I […]
One of California’s lesser-known lighthouses sits on a tiny islet on Battery Point, just south of Crescent City. To get there, you have to wait for low tide. At high tide, the islet is surrounded by water. We’re almost always in the Crescent City/Eureka area on Labor Day weekend and this place has been on […]
Today I’d like to share some photos I shot over the weekend. To get these shots, I bought a $500 bird blind, sat in it all day, and shot three million photos. Hahaha just kidding. I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and shot them all in about five minutes with my superzoom camera. Cheating. […]
A few years ago, I read a story about this guy who was unwinding at home one evening when a sinkhole suddenly opened up under his living room and swallowed up half his house. And him. Ever since then, I have had an irrational fear of sinkholes. The house in the story was probably built […]
Unless a bag of money falls on my head, I’m probably never going to see the Valley of the Kings. So I’ll just tell myself it’s overrated, even though it’s obviously not. Meanwhile, if you are feeling the same way and are a resident of Northern California, you can simulate the experience of visiting Egypt. […]
Yesterday, my neighbor told me there’s a rampaging mountain lion in our area. Well, not rampaging exactly, just causing some trouble for a few of the neighbors, but he likes us to be cautious. Mountain lions aren’t really a danger to people, especially when there are so many deer around. Because they do occasionally take […]
If you’re traveling through the vast, boring — I mean unspoiled — desert of Nevada and you need somewhere to stop, Tonopah is an oasis amongst tumbleweeds. Actually it’s not, it’s a slightly larger spec of a town between the last spec of a town and the next spec of a town on a very […]
