This could be the perfect hike for a four-year-old. In fact, it was the perfect hike for three four-year-olds (friends of our four-year-old, Catherine) and our seven-month-old twins. We left Pasadena at 7am on a recent Saturday and were at the 49 Palms Oasis trailhead by 9:30am. This trailhead is accessed from outside the park […]

We flew into Vienna from Paris on a Saturday morning, early enough to feel like we would have a full day ahead of us. Once we arrived, we agreed that this is the only way to go. For a major city, it isn’t a large airport and we were on the curb with our bags […]

Wanting to get out of London for a day, we booked train tickets from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge for our last full day in the UK. Sunday morning was an easy time to get across London from our hotel on Piccadilly Lane in Mayfair and we were in our comfortable first class seats in […]

In what has to be the greatest stretch of weather for western France in memory, we enjoyed four gorgeous days on the Ilê d’Yeu, a small island off the coast of Vendée, accessible from the port of Fromentine at the causeway for Ilê de Noirmoutier. Our trip started with an hour drive south along the […]

The following is a guest post by Aaron Broberg, winner of the Mountain High season’s pass. A great place to ski is more than just the size of the facilities or the number of runs. For me, a great place has to be one that is close enough to go when I have the time, […]

We love the San Gabriel Mountains that are in our back yard in Pasadena. We spend an enormous amount of time hiking, camping, climbing and skiing in what we consider Southern California’s greatest range. From the Los Angeles side of the San Gabriels, it would be easy to think that the mountains are only dry […]

We’re wrapping up two great weeks in Peru with a flight out tonight at 1:00 am from Lima. During that timespan, we’ve dined above the Pacific Ocean and enjoyed ancient ruins at Pisac, Machu Picchu, and Huaraz. We’ve seen majestic Andes peaks, pastoral landscapes, jungle habitat bursting with vegetation and very, very friendly Peruvians. For […]

Despite our crazy adventures in California, we’ve never ventured into the sparsely populated area north of Los Angeles and between the 101 and 5 Freeways. We are usually in a hurry to get somewhere and that keeps us from taking the scenic byways that are truly remarkable. Carrizo Plain The Carrizo Plain is a broad, […]

If you’ve read our stories over the past year and a half, you know that we don’t sit still very long and that we love travel and adventure. When you’ve been high in the Himalayas, crisscrossed Hawaii, many national parks and other parts of the world, what can do to up the adventure? You can […]

Another weekend and another chance to bag a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains near our home in Pasadena. This is one of the more popular hikes in Los Angeles, as it turns out. San Gabriel Peak was once thought the highest in the area close to Pasadena at 1878 m (6,161 ft) but is […]