When I made my “hockey bucket list” and decided I had to go to a Stanley Cup Final game in my lifetime, it never occurred to me that I would be seeing my home team in contest for the Cup, but life works in amazing ways and I saw the San Jose Sharks battle the Pittsburg Penguins […]
Category: USA
California’s Gold | Two Places at Once
At long last, our final destination has been met! The idea has been tossed around for years of turning this location into the fifty-first state in America and naming it Jefferson but for now it remains (and probably always will) the state line between California and Oregon. I am a little disappointed in my home […]
California’s Gold | Tall Tales of the PNW
Sticking with the evident theme of “out-of-the-ordinary” attractions along Highway 101, have y’all met my friend Paul? Not sure how common of a story this is for children nowadays, but for me Paul Bunyan and Babe were up there with The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. The gist of the tall tale […]
Stadium Stories | Boston Bruins
This past December I was in Massachusetts for a long weekend and there was no way I was going to travel across the country and not see a Boston Bruins hockey game. Now that I am home, what is there to say about Bostonians and their love affair with ice hockey? It’s intense. Even walking in Boston Commons […]
California’s Gold | Eureka! No Gold Here!
Huell Howser and I were on the same page when we both pinned the town of Eureka as a place to stop along Highway 101. Marked as stop number 15 on the California’s Gold road map, this throwback of a town is not only home to Lost Coast Brewery and the Samoa Cookhouse but is has its own mansion! […]
California’s Gold | Brews
There are two types of brewed drinks that I am a particular fan of– the bean kind and the hops kind– and highway 101 has a fair share of both! So this blog post is going to venture away from Huell Howser’s guide map, as I customize it by adding some of my own stops […]
California’s Gold | Are You Confused Yet?
California is lucky enough to be home to not one but TWO gravity defying attractions; The Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz and Confusion Hill of Mendocino County.Although I live closer to The Mystery Spot, I grew up defying gravity on the side of “Old Highway 101” at Confusion Hill. This was always a prime spot to […]
California’s Gold
As a child, sitting in the car for eight hours on a road trip up Highway 101 was a pretty normal thing. My family made this pilgrimage annually to visit my grandparents that live in the last town before the Oregon state line, so I got pretty familiar with all the different cities and rest […]
Storytellers Cafe
I started my 22nd birthday as most people do at such a mature age– at a character breakfast at the Disneyland Resort! My family and I spent our morning at the Storytellers Cafe in Disneyland’s Grand Californian Hotel; a buffet breakfast accompanied by all your forest friends! Characters like Chip & Dale, Kenai & Koda […]
City Chronicles | The Albany Bulb
Just off of Highway 80 in Albany you can find a retired construction debris landfill that is now a crumbling kingdom of art. Known as the Albany Bulb, this space is now a public park open to dog walkers, runners and those with an artistic soul searching for an fresh canvas. Sitting on the edge of […]
World Watching 