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We’re celebrating more “good migrations” this week, this time in California’s heartland. As if in Kansas, early immigrants to California's great valley…

Today we head up the road to Lake Tahoe in the Roaring Twenties, when the rich were very rich and no one else counted for much. Sound familiar?A century…

We head up the road this week to Big Sur.The poet Robinson Jeffers described this redwood and rock coast as “that jagged country which nothing but a…

Think July 4, 1776, Independence Day for the United States, and sights and sounds crowd the imagination—the Liberty Bell, American flag, George…

Many of us desperately need a change of scene, all at the same time, some sort of post-Camp Fire paradigm shift. You know someone needs to get away when…

We head up the road into the Sierra Nevada again, this fine snowy week—to Tahoe, again, more specifically, in search of the perfect winter timeout in…

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 add another woman’s perspective to the story of life in California’s gold camps. An everyday perspective. Of the very few women who made up…

When people ask me where to go or what’s worth doing, I never know what to say. What makes a memorable trip depends on who you are, and what interests…

Summer’s here, road trip time. Whether you plan to head north or south, find a way to go via US Route 395 on the Sierra Nevada’s east side. Route 395 was…