Hostelling
Not just for youths Lately, when talking to friends about the hostels I’ve stayed in during my recent travels, they seem to have the idea that hostels are some sort of homeless shelters in the bad part...
View ArticleMichelin Man
Woke up at 7:30 here in the Olympic Hostel and looked outside and discovered an absolutely beautiful day, blue sky, no clouds and the sun was just coming up over the Cascade Mountains. I slept like a...
View Articlefour hours and four hundred dollars later…
Got up at 6:45 to shower and dress and catch the 8:00 ferry back to Coupeville. I was greeted with fresh snow on the ground. I made the 30 minute ferry crossing just fine followed by a 90 minute...
View Articlethe back end of the car wanted to take the lead
I slept in a little here at the Olympic Hostel and so did Joy. We finally awoke and looked outside and discovered another two or three inches of snow and it was still coming down. This ought to be...
View ArticleSnowy beach
In the morning Lloyd took me into town to show me around Westport. He has big plans for the place. I love his house, it’s right on the beach and the view from his living room windows is awesome. We...
View ArticleThe tropics of Oregon
Around 6:00am, an alarm went off. Viola turned it off and I went back to sleep. At 6:30, it went off again and she turned it off again. I asked her if she was getting up or what and she said she...
View ArticleDamnation Creek trail head
I had the room all to myself and I slept pretty well. The sound of the water rushing in against the rocks was quite nice. I talked with Kaci, the hostel manager, last night to get hiking...
View Articlewatch out for all the elk poo
Kristen got up early and left and I noticed I had another room mate here at the hostel. Virginia was in another room next to the room where someone was snoring unbelievably loud, so she moved into my...
View Articleit will only be worth about $800,000
After showering and getting dressed I headed to the kitchen here at the Redwood Hostel and oh my, there’s more people here than I thought. It’s a big kitchen, two stoves and fridges and and three big...
View ArticleI got what I asked for
I got up early, packed, checked out of the Redwood Hostel and was on the road by 8:00am heading south. It was a beautiful day. My destination – the Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel near Pescadero, CA....
View Articlemy car would have been totaled
I left the Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel Saturday morning, the 27th, and drove south along the California coast through Monterrey, Big Sur, San Simeon, Santa Barbara and arrived in LA at the Santa...
View ArticleMy 2008 Winter U.S. west coast road trip
In mid December 2008, I took off on a road trip of the west coast of the U.S. from top to bottom. Starting in Lynden Washington, just south of the Canadian border, I headed to the Olympic peninsula of...
View ArticleSpring Road Trip, Days 5 & 6 – SF to home
Day 5 – The weather in San Francisco had been cold and rainy and I was anxious to get on the road again. I headed out, thinking the rest of California would be OK, weather wise. I thought wrong. I...
View ArticleBC, Yukon, Alaska Road Trip – Photo Journal
(There are about 200 pictures in the gallery attached to this post) In the fall of 2007, my friend Terry and I took a two week road trip from the lower BC mainland north to Williams Lake, Prince...
View ArticleFrom Here To Uncertainty – Bob & Brenna Redpath
I posted a short article a couple of days ago about Bob and Brenna Redpath of Los Angeles who are chucking it all and hitting the road with their two kids. I had an opportunity to talk with Bob and...
View Article"Maggie's awesome mid life, up and quit her job, went to Europe for two...
A book version of my awesome mid-life, up and quit my job and went to Europe for two months European road trip journal and pictures is now available in hard copy or as a pdf file. The book is 168...
View ArticleR & R in DC
04/27/2010 One of the cool things about my job is that I get to take “home time” pretty much wherever I want. This time, I chose Washington DC in the springtime. I had been planning this trip for...
View ArticleR & R in DC, day 2
04/28/2010 After a fairly good night sleep here at the Washington DC HI Hostel, I got up and went exploring. The first order of business was breaky and I found the dinning room that was pretty much...
View ArticleR & R in DC, day 3
04/29/2010 Didn’t get much sleep last night, having gone to bed at 2:00am and all. Oh well. Met a new roommate this morning. As I was laying in bed I heard her talking with someone and it sounded...
View ArticleR & R in DC, day 4
4/30/10 I had been planning on taking the guided walk through Georgetown and George Washington University last night but wimped out. Well, I wish I had gone. This morning during a nice long leisurely...
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