It was a typical early summer day in Oregon, warm and sunny when we left Portland, cool and foggy when we arrived at the Oregon Coast. Eventually, the fog burned off and the day was intermittently cloudy and sunny. Our route took us through the small town of Tillamook, but our visit to the town’s [...]
Lance humored me, his rock geek wife. The idea of spending the day poking around the famous fossil-bearing layers of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument certainly didn’t thrill him. But the lure of a drive through beautiful country to a sparsely settled region which we’ve never visited before, worked. Little did we know that [...]
Our next two weeks in the Beaver State were spent in the Bend area of Central Oregon. While in Bend we learned why Oregon is called the Beaver State, and why the Beaver is also the state animal. The fur of the busy rodent was the area’s first lucrative export long before Oregon even became [...]
It wasn’t entirely intentional but our adventures in the Klamath Basin were easily split into two distinct geographic categories, north and south. Last time we discussed our northern travels, so it is now time to talk about the southern end of the Basin. In order to do so we have to leave the state of [...]
We picked our new location of Klamath Falls somewhat randomly, but there were several factors we considered. First, it was just about the right distance for us to travel—we like to keep our mileage around 200 miles if we can. Second, Lance had read that there was pretty good birding in the area, and finally, [...]
Last time we stayed in the Healdsburg area (2006) we were intrigued by the names of two nearby state parks that Lance noticed on a map of the region. (Lance pores over maps the way some people peruse a good book.) Since we are both avid readers, the names caught our attention: Robert Louis Stevenson [...]
For our maiden voyage towing our car behind our new-to-us RV we opted to travel at night. Leaving Tucson for San Diego meant that we had to traverse the hot desert and over several mountain passes. Since Yuma was already in the 90s we left Tucson in the evening to avoid the heat. Another [...]
I would be remiss to focus so much on Tucson without discussing the city’s long aviation history. Sixteen years after the Wright brothers successfully achieved lighter-than-air flight in 1903, land was set aside in Tucson for the creation of a civil airfield. The Tucson field was the first municipally-owned airfield in the country; it really [...]
Occasionally circumstances bring together people from opposite walks of life who join forces and create a masterpiece. Such was the case when Arthur Newton Pack met William H. Carr in 1951.
But first some background. William H. Carr was born in New York in 1902. His was a modest family headed by his father who [...]It was a beautiful sunny morning as we drove south through the Santa Cruz Valley towards Tumacacori National Historic Park, just about twenty miles north of Nogales on the Mexican border. This scenic valley has a long history of human occupation; the earliest evidence stretches back into the last Ice Age over 12,000 years ago, [...]
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