Tag: Travel

  • Last of the walk-ins?

    Last of the walk-ins?

    This past week, I went camping in San Rafael at China Camp, our favorite tenting location. The vistas are amazing, it is largely peaceful and our fellow campers and accompanying kids were good to be with.

  • California Academy of Sciences

    California Academy of Sciences

    We trekked last weekend to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, a fun and edifying destination.

  • Men’s Retreat

    Men’s Retreat

    I went on a retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains for the third year in a row, and had a wonderful and miraculous, transformative time.

  • Christmas in the Park

    Christmas in the Park

    Today we went to Christmas in the Park in Downtown San Jose.

  • The Perfect Meal

    The Perfect Meal

    To follow, my wife made a reservation at King’s Fish House, but we thought it was at posh Santana Row, so we drove over there and parked.

  • Travelings

    Travelings

    My mom was traveling out of the country and asked me to drive her to the airport, so I fired up my jalopy, and headed up to her town. The traffic was light, even for a Saturday. Taking the 880 can be a grind as there’s usually many pockets of gridlock, but today, the going…

  • Binging Castle

    Binging Castle

    Lovely Stana Katic plays Beckett, who is as smart and sarcastic as she is lovely and skillful. Nathan Fillion is great as the title character, “ruggedly handsome?” and with a cheesy sense of humor and wild imagination to rival mine.

  • Travels with Shea

    Travels with Shea

    Volume1 Today we headed to Monterey. We’d been credited for a visit to the aquarium we couldn’t complete when I’d been ill, so today, months later, we decided to make use of it. It was nice of the folks at the Monterey Bay Aquarium to let us come back for free; we’d barely started our…