An Oregon Coast Adventure There is a moment on a road trip when you feel the landscape changing and something inside you changes with it. Leaving Amity, Karen and Jeff’s vineyard estate, and the quaint town of McMinnville behind, I…
Karen, Jeff and me. 38 years after I was Jeff’s best man in their wedding. I’m honored to see them after 28 years.
I left the orthopedic clinic with a brace on my left wrist, the same ointments I had already been using on my right foot, and a destination programmed into the Hemi: Mount Hood. The plan was simple enough. Drive west.…
After lunch and another stretch of blogging at City Beach Organics, it was time to point the Hemi west again. Spokane was only about a 70-minute drive away. I was meeting my new friends Andy and Brianna for dinner that…
The drive from McGillivray Campground to Sandpoint, Idaho, took just over two hours. I arrived in town around 1:00 in the afternoon, and my first priority was finding a coffee shop where I could settle in, enjoy a good cup…
After my delicious breakfast in Apgar Village, I climbed back into the Hemi, pointed the truck west, and entered my next destination into the GPS: Kootenai National Forest. I was leaving Glacier National Park behind and heading into an entirely…
There are moments on a long road trip when the plan quietly disappears. Not dramatically. There is no announcement. No alarm goes off. Nothing flashes across the dashboard. You simply arrive at the place where you thought you were going…
Leaving Baker’s Hole Campground on the morning of Thursday, September 3rd, I broke down my campsite as usual. I collapsed my rooftop tent, loaded everything back into the truck bed, recharged the battery that powers my refrigerator/freezer and other electronics,…
Bozeman to Yellowstone: Three Days of Geysers, Wildlife, Waterfalls and Big-Sky Country There was something almost magical about waking up in Bozeman, Montana. After so many weeks on the road, Bozeman felt like a place where two very different Montana’s…
This is a terrific section of the journey because it has almost everything: exercise, history, spectacular scenery, mechanical problems, an increasingly unhappy foot, an emergency change of plans, camping adventures, Annie heading home, and finally the preparation for Yellowstone. It…