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It turns out that this week includes the Pebble Beach Tour d' Elegance car event in Carmel. That's why there have been so many fan...

I get the feeling that Carmel is quite well-heeled. After we'd found our Inn, which looked out onto the Pacific, we made our way along ...

Sonoma is a quaint little town, mainly comprising a square which includes cafes and wine tasting stores. It is also the far northern end of...

Welcome to another Hotel California. This one is even an ex Mission, although as a difference from the song lyrics, I can't hear the mi...

We decided to head away from the main 101 to look at the Redwood forest more closely. The main road skates across the top of the forest on ...

A couple of weeks ago, blogger Nikki-ann asked me if I'd try a meme about things I wanted to do. I didn't get around to completi...

The 101 might be over 1500 miles long, but it's not all serious driving. There's plenty of quirky points along the way. Whole towns...

Our car here is a four-wheel-drive sports utility vehicle, but despite others doing it, I couldn't bring myself to drive it along the b...

We arrived at the old schoolhouse around dusk. This would be our last evening in Washington. Our base was almost a gateway to an area cal...

When they said, "Check out the driftwood," I had in my mind some twigs and maybe a few branches along the shoreline. This is th...

The inside of the Consulate was delightful, as were the hosts. We had a good look around at the predominantly Victorian inspired interior...

The old German Consulate made an excellent and friendly evening stopover. By now we were in Port Townsend, an area which seems to have se...