Our California Road Trip Adventure started and ended in Los Angeles; specifically, Hollywood. We flew Flair Airlines into Hollywood Burbank Airport. The descent into this airport was one of the most striking I’ve ever seen. The landscape abruptly changed from flat grids of farmland into gorgeous mountains with unbelievable hilltop mansions. The weather was perfect. […]
California Road Trip: Death Valley
The drive to Death Valley National Park is a lot like you might imagine it: long, straight, flat sections of pavement with seemingly no end in sight. Although this description might sound pretty awful, it is actually a spectacular and worthwhile drive. The desert valleys are vast and expansive, there are few signs of industrial […]
California Road Trip: Red Rock Canyon State Park
A lesson for the road: do your research, and if you don’t do research, do flexibility. It was early in the morning and we were packing up our Yosemite campsite when I pulled up the best route to get to Sequoia National Park and Death Valley. I had planned to head East out of the […]
California Road Trip: Yosemite National Park
What better fuel for our adventure into Yosemite National Park? A McBreakfast. That’s how we started our day in Oakdale, California, after rolling out of the Best Western parking lot we had slept in the night before. On our way to one of the most famous US National Parks, we passed through communities such as […]
California Road Trip: San Francisco
Driving into San Francisco was nothing short of chaotic. Admittedly, I was already feeling anxious this afternoon as cities can be pretty overwhelming and we hadn’t nailed down a place to sleep. I had been counting on free parking apps such as iOverlander to show us a reliable and safe place to park the van […]
