We’ve happened to take our longest road trip ever during the most expensive gas prices ever. We’ve been hitting gas in the mid $4 range for a while now, but today as we were nearing the Nevada border we set a new high.
$5.499 for a gallon of gas. Ouch.
After days of beautiful scenery and amazing vistas our view today is all blacktop. We are on our way to Las Vegas for the next stop on the Summer of Love. We’ll be driving through the scorching Mojave Desert on our way. We are just getting close, and it’s already 103 °F out.
11:11 am: Heading to Carmel this morning. 1:48 pm: Amazed with Carmel. Blue Dog gallery is dangerous. 4:34 pm: Left Tammy in Carmel for the afternoon. At house with Mazie for nap time. 4:55 pm: Ugh - carpenter starts drilling in room right underneath where Mazie is napping! 4:58 …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Summer of Love Day 25 LogDriving down CA-1 to Big Sur. Listening to Jack Johnson. (12:29 pm) Feet have sand on them (12:41 pm) Amazing morning going down the coast. Early lunch stop at Nepenthe. (1:19 pm) Amazing lunch with unbelievable view. Wow. (2:38 pm) Possibly the best day of our trip yet. Big Sur …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Summer of Love Day 24 LogThe traveling family is taking the 4th week of the road trip to eschew a restaurant, and I’m making pasta! Yeah!
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Our Summer of Love trip was never intended to be a camping or hiking trip. We booked all of our visits in hotels and motels and have stuck to restaurants. We have had three stops in national parks on the trip and they made a big impact on me. Each one of them represented another …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Expansive, Powerful and MajesticIn line at Tartine Bakery.
While we were walking with the big Redwoods I stopped for a moment to do a quick field recording. This isn’t pristine. You’ll catch a moment of wind noise, and if you listen really, really close you may hear a truck in the distance very faintly. Mainly though, you hear the birds …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Sounds of the Redwoods9:13 am: Anybody know the best, sourest, densest sourdough bakery in San Francisco? 11:19 am: Really good breakfast at Savor in San Francisco. 4:42 pm: Never realized before how impossible it is to park in San Francisco. 6:02 pm: After bricking my Linksys WTR-54GS travel router, …
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