Tag Archives: California

Falling in Love with Big Sur

I haven’t posted anything new for over a week, because I was off to California’s Big Sur area for a writing workshop. While I was busy workshopping and focusing on my next book, a children’s fantasy story, I accidentally fell in love with the area. It’s hard not to, what with the towering redwoods, the […]

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Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed’s Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was at the top of my booklist since reading her Dear Sugar column, Write Like a Motherfucker. It gave me some encouragement I desperately needed. So I read it again. And then I read more of her columns. And still more after that. […]

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Walking Up To The Yosemite Falls

The view while walking up to the Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park.

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The Redwood Trees of John Muir National Monument

One of my favorite places anywhere? Hiking amongst the redwood trees of John Muir National Monument.

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A Las Vegas Trip to Death Valley National Park

It only takes about two hours to get from the hotels on the Las Vegas Strip to Death Valley National Park, a short and easy day trip from the craziness of Sin City. I stood atop Dante’s View with my friend, happy to have made the drive. We got a deal on a car rental […]

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The Rooftop of the Forest

Walking through the John Muir National Monument.

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