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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.…

The Great California Road Trip continues this week, rolling over to the Sierra Nevada’s east side. Wherever you’re ultimately heading, on the eastern side…

Just south of Bodie is Mono Lake. You could mistake this pale gray inland sea and its ghostly tufa towers for an eerie alien swimming pool on some other…

We visit Death Valley this week, the lowest point in North America. Death Valley’s depths are all the more impressive when you consider that the highest…