How do you plan your trips, or do you plan them at all? My approach is: find a beautiful photo and plan the day around the location of it. I used the same approach when planned a Hawaiian trip. The only problem is that the whole of Kauai looks like a paradise. So the following…
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Northern Sierra Nevada Fall Road Trip
I am continuing to rebuke the myth that there is no Fall in California. The itinerary below was done as two weekend trips in the middle of October. It’s needed to say that the Fall season in that year started a bit later but still on the third weekend of October, some higher elevation groves…
Active Napa Fall Trip
What do you think about Napa? Fancy tastings? Picnics near the vines? Accidental peddling between wineries and tasty dinner? It could be, but don’t allow those thoughts to trick you. Napa could be full of active adventures (mixed with all things from above)! Early Morning Drive Silverado Trail Nothing could bit early morning fall drive….
US Canada Rocky Mountains National Parks Trip
oIf to think, there are only a few road trips that I would repeat without any changes a few more times. And this Canada-US Rocky Mountains road trip is one of them. What I will describe further is our July trip. Except for Glacier, we spent the only day in each region. However, it could…
Winter adventures in Jemez National Forest
It happened that on Christmas vacations, we spent three days in Albuquerque. The shutdown closed the parks and monuments, winter storm threatened to close roads in the mountain, and Albuquerque wasn’t the worst place. These three days were the test of my planning skills. I rebooked the hotel, changed routes, and planned stops on a…
Fall Road trip to Hope Valley
When I first googled “Fall Colors in California,” among all the Eastern Sierra locations, I saw Hope Valley. The place was somehow totally unknown to me. Then I started my research, and the trip idea appeared. Hope Valley rests at 7,000 feet south of Lake Tahoe on the eastern side of Carson Pass. The drive,…
Great Basin National Park
It was September 2016 when we headed to Utah through Nevada. Before this trip, I thought that Nevada is limited with Tahoe, Las Vegas and some red rocks on the south. That it’s only a big, hot, and dusty desert. Truth to be told I planned to stop at Great Basin NP for this trip….