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It’s always worthwhile to consider why we should travel, and then how to travel responsibly. Very short answer: We should travel because it makes us…

We head Up the Road this week to the Nord Country School in tiny Nord, California. This spot in the road just northwest of Chico, central to cattle, fruit…

We head up the road this week to the Salton Sea in Southern California’s Coachella Valley. Most people don’t make it much beyond the population…

We continue visiting gold-rush-era California this week, primarily because that historic earthquake shaped or reshaped almost every aspect of California…

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.…