Kim Weir
Host, Up The RoadKim Weir is the founder of Up the Road, a nonprofit public-interest journalism project. She researches, writes, and hosts Up the Road, a radio show and mini-podcast about California co-produced by North State Public Radio. Kim got her start as a travel journalist in 1990 with the publication of the first and original Moon Handbooks Northern California, a surprise best-seller. Six other Moon books on California soon followed. She is a member, by invitation, of the venerable Society of American Travel Writers (SATW). Kim earned a BA in environmental studies and analysis, with an emphasis on botany and ecology, and also holds an MFA in creative writing. She lives in Paradise.
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Some work to restore and rebuild after the Camp Fire is easy to see: Full-on debris cleanup. Cutting down dead and dying trees, to make room for returning… -
We continue exploring unique state parks—this week, Fort Ross. How many states can boast of Russian settlement? Just California, Alaska, of course, and… -
Hearst San Simeon State Historic Monument on the Central California coast is one of those places you just have to see, no matter what you think of the man… -
The Hearst San Simeon State Historic Monument on the coast just south of Big Sur ranks right up there with Disneyland as one of California’s premier… -
We continue exploring Southern California’s Channel Islands this week, this time the five islands that make up Channel Islands National Park.The discovery… -
We continue visiting Southern California’s Channel Islands this week. Privately owned Santa Catalina Island, once owned by William Wrigley, of chewing gum… -
This week we head up the road to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, unofficially known as The Rock, where countless bad guys did their time in the… -
We continue touring California’s islands with a visit to Angel Island, a state park that’s also part of the Bay Area’s Golden Gate National Recreation… -
To kick off our California island tour, this week we head up the road to visit the Farallon Islands some 30 miles west of San Francisco’s Golden Gate.… -
This a perfect time for heading up the road, what with fewer fellow travelers, fall colors, and cool weather that’s not yet wet.For autumn road trips,…
