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Europeans generally get credit for having “discovered” America, including the mythic land of California, though of course the people already here didn’t…

We visit the Carmel Mission this week or, more properly, Mission Basilica San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo, the second Spanish mission established in…

Tell someone you’re going hiking, they usually assume you’re heading to the mountains, maybe the coast. But California’s deserts offer sublime hikes. Just…

This week we continue exploring how and why to travel after disaster. Why we’d want to? We may not be able to help ourselves, being curious,…

We’re strolling California beaches this week, to appreciate the northern elephant seal, another seasonal migrant.Once you’ve seen a two- to three-ton male…

Historian Carey McWilliams wrote California: The Great Exception, first published in 1949, to commemorate the Golden State’s first 100 years of statehood.…

We’ve been talking about doing something different this summer, something meaningful, personal, local. Tracing old highway routes with help from the 1939…

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…

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…

This week Up the Road heads up the trail—for solitude and some inspiration on short trips along the Pacific Crest Trail, in the shadow of the Cascades.…