Archive for 'Travel' Category
Alamogordo
8 March 2010On Sunday (3/7) we visited Alamogordo, NM, home of the New Mexico Museum of Space History. It took a bit over an hour to drive from Las Cruces to Alamogordo, via Hwy 70. US-70 passes through the White Sands Missile Range and the White Sands National Monument. Like most of the Desert Southwest, the scenery [...]
Deming, NM to Las Cruces, NM (3/4/10)
4 March 2010Moving briskly along the State of New Mexico brings us to Las Cruces.
The ride along I-10 for the past day or so has been pretty dreary. Lots of open space, very little development between towns. Occasionally there is a store for tourists, usually preceded by 20 miles of billboards. New Mexico allows the sale of [...]
By the time we get to Phoenix (2/25/2010)
25 February 2010We took quite a nice ride to day from Quartzsite to Phoenix (and on to Mesa) by way of US Hwy 60. Rather than staying on I-10, we performed what my parents taught me was “shunpiking“. We took Hwy 60 since we had better expectations of breakfast.
Tweeting
25 February 2010I sent out a few tweets this morning while traveling, though not while driving :) Follow me at KM6CG if you like.
Arizona, take off your rainbow shades (2/24/2010)
24 February 2010Well, we made Arizona today. After a home-cooked breakfast in the trailer, we left Rialto at about 8:30 AM.
We traveled east through San Bernadino all the way to Indio, where we stopped for fuel, a grocery store run, and then lunch at Panda Express — Roseann’s favorite. Then back on the road bound for Quartzsite, [...]
Leaving L.A. (2/23/10)
23 February 2010This is the first blog post from the road!
Staging is complete. All the storage things are in the storage, and all the traveling things are in the trailer! The cable modem is returned, the post office is notified, and were ready to go by 1 pm. Of course, we realized that if we left, we’d [...]
Birchas Ha Chamah — The Blessing of the Sun
9 April 2009If you haven’t had your head under a religious rock these past few months, you’ve encountered the buzz about the Blessing of the Sun, which takes place every 28 years. A good explanation of this can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkat_Hachama
We went to Birchat HaChama on the beach in Boca Raton, FL.  The event was co-organized [...]
Do I Know The Way To San Jose?
16 March 2009The life of a workingman is not necessarily the stuff of which blogs are made, thus I can go from January to March with no blog entries, and nothing has been missed. We had an election in Los Angeles, but it was boring. I voted, but did so without much enthusiasm.
Some readers may know that [...]
San Diego Part II
30 October 2008Never having returned to blog the San Diego trip, it’s clear that a followup is required.
The train trip was excellent, the bicycle riding was, as well. We rode the “Bayshore Bikeway“adjacent to Silver Strand Blvd. We rode it south-to-north, and I highly recommend the other direction. The prevailing wind was in our faces all the [...]
De Train, Boss, De Train
12 October 2008Here I sit on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner, in business class (cool!), on my way to San Diego. Down in the baggage car is my bicycle. The plan was to take the bus to the Van Nuys Amtrak station, take the Surfliner to San Diego, meet my friend Larry, visit, bicycle about, and take the [...]