FOUR ON THE ROAD

A Journey for a Lifetime

May 23, 2022
13 min

Northern California: From San Francisco to Tahoe - Part III

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow” – Anita Desai Thursday, March 24, 2022 There are lots of things you can count on and...

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May 9, 2022
11 min

Northern California: From San Francisco to Tahoe - Part II

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us." - Anonymous Monday, March 21, 2022 -- Leaving San Francisco Though our...

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Apr 26, 2022
13 min

Northern California: From San Francisco to Tahoe - Part I

"It doesn't matter where you are going, it matters who is beside you." - Anonymous Last December, my partner Matthew's sister-in-law...

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Jan 31, 2022
16 min

The Upper Midwest: A Road Trip for 2021 - Part II

"Travel leaves you speechless; then turns you into a storyteller." - Ibn Battuta Now just five days into my two-week Upper Midwest road...

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Jan 18, 2022
11 min

The Upper Midwest: A Road Trip for 2021 - Part I

"Not all who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien Each year I try to make two or three road trips, even if they are limited to a few days....

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Jul 21, 2021
9 min

Washington State: Best Places to Visit by County (Skagit - Yakima)

This article is part of a four-part series. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE START OF THE SERIES. Skagit County La Conner -- The city of La...

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Jul 21, 2021
11 min

Washington State: Best Places to Visit by County (Lewis - San Juan)

This article is part of a four-part series. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE START OF THE SERIES. Lewis County Claquato -- The small community of...

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Jul 21, 2021
11 min

Washington State: Best Places to Visit by County (Garfield - Klickitat)

This article is part of a four-part series. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE START OF THE SERIES. Garfield County Lower Granite Dam -- To get...

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Jul 21, 2021
10 min

Washington State: Best Places to Visit by County (Adams - Franklin)

“Here in the corner attic of America, two hours’ drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord,...

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Jul 16, 2021
7 min

Carolina on My Mind (Part IV) - From Chesapeake Bay to the Blue Ridge Parkway

Now in the final few days of my 15-day East Coast road trip, the bitter reality that it would soon come to end -- that the unchecked...

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Jul 8, 2021
9 min

Carolina On My Mind (Part III) - From Boone to Colonial Virginia

October 3, 2020 Dawn in Charlottesville, Virginia marked the end of Week 1 of my autumn road trip through the Carolinas, and beyond. My...

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Jul 6, 2021
11 min

Carolina On My Mind (Part II) - Appalachia

For the next few days of my East Coast road trip, I wandered through Appalachia, starting in South Carolina and working my way northward....

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Jul 3, 2021
12 min

Carolina On My Mind (Part I) - The Outer Banks

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I...

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Jun 9, 2021
14 min

Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York - Part V

June 17, 2013 - Kansas City Here I Come By the time we crossed the Mississippi River the night before, Lola and I had logged 4,837 miles...

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Jun 3, 2021
11 min

Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York - Part IV

June 13, 2013 - Leaving New York Lola and I had been on the road officially for two weeks when we packed our suitcases in our New York...

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May 29, 2021
11 min

Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York - Part III

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” —Simone de Beauvoir I have a crush on New York, and it’s been going on...

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May 27, 2021
12 min

Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York - Part II

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans...

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May 21, 2021
16 min

Road Trip 2013: Seattle to New York

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac Starting with the first road trip I made in 1987...

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May 9, 2021
12 min

Magnetic North: Canada's Northwest Territories

"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." -- Gustave Flaubert In the late 1980s, I was obsessed with...

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Apr 27, 2021
12 min

Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe?

(Apologies to Dionne Warwick for altering her song title, just a little...) Situated high in the northern Rio Grande Valley, in the...

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