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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…

This week we head up the road to appreciate again the California coast in winter. Many of us think of one particular migrant in appreciating the nearshore…

Today we continue up the road on US Route 395 to Mono Lake, 750,000 years old and an ecological marvel in the dramatic eastern shadow of the Sierra…

We head up the road this week in search of natural air conditioning, along the California coast again. The Lost Coast, this time, that unruly stretch…

“Lonely as God and white as a winter moon.” That’s how 19th-century writer Joaquin Miller described Mount Shasta, California’s most majestic mountain. So…

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,…

Need a spa vacation but can barely make the rent?I say: Head for Grover Hot Springs mid-week to grab one of those 20 first-come winter campsites near the…

This week I’d planned to head out on the first leg of our Great California Road Trip. But listener feedback convinced me that we need to talk more, first,…

“Lonely as God and white as a winter moon.” That’s how 19th-century poet and Pony Express rider Joaquin Miller described Mount Shasta, California’s most…

The Great California Road Trip has rolled straight down from High Sierra summits to the edge of the Great Basin—a surprising transition, ecologically and…