by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 18, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
The day was not hot which was best. We hit the road around 11 and were making for our Northern Most and truly culmination destination, Bainbridge Island, Washington and Michelle’s heart and soul cousins. The first surprise was that the GPS stubbornly wouldn’t direct...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 18, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
This was a 45-mile drive that somehow took 4 hours. We stopped for lunch at a nice outdoor dining restaurant, but Michelle got pretty worked up during the wait and I elected to return to the bus. After waving to the waiter to bring the food to-go and getting the nod,...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 14, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
Mother Earth was at her finest. We departed early, for us, from Ireland’s Rustic Lodges. It was indeed “rustic” and since we stayed here some thirty plus years ago, I don’t see that they have refreshed… anything! Even the carpets look to be about 40 years old. Clean...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 13, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
We leave Howard Creek Ranch a bit after 11:00. If you ever get a chance to go to the coast up there in Nor Cal I cannot recommend this place enough. It is a bit rustic but in all the right ways. Sonny, who runs the place, has been there for fifty years, gradually...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 12, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
California could lift a middle finger to those who put it down but let’s just go with “Hold my beer.” Our casita was truly in the heart of the hood where I grew up. We moved here to the Lake Merritt area from East Oakland where we had lived in the back end of a duplex...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 10, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
The Baskin Robbins is now some kind of photo gallery and Colonial Donuts has been displaced down the block from its prime corner position. 31 flavors of memories. Memories of Patty and the day I got to walk her home, and hot raised-glazed early in the morning, coffee...
