Hippocleides Doesn't Care

In years past I’ve gone to Silverfork off highway 50 for Memorial Day weekend. That was back when I was younger and didn’t care about sitting in stop-and-go traffic for 8 hours to get home. These days I’m much more likely to stay home on holiday weekends. But Sonora Pass called to me… Sonora Pass [...]

Tags: California, central valley, eastern Sierras, highway 108, highway 120, highway 4, highway 50, highway 70, highway 80, highway 88, kennedy meadow, Sierra Nevada, sonora pass, yum

Four days in Truckee was good for the soul. We sat near the fireplace and watched the snow fall quietly. Yum fed all our food to the neighborhood doggies. I took Yum for a nice long walk in a snowstorm. Tuesday night was our last night and I wanted a nice dinner. Well, and I [...]

Tags: Basque, Boomtown, Cabela's, craps, dinner, Donner Summit, gambling, highway 80, lamb, Louis' Basque Corner, Marriott, Reno, Sierras, Silver Legacy, slots, snow, Truckee, Vacaville, Verdi, wind, yum

People in the Bay Area drive like idiots. Today on highway 80 traffic was backed up for miles. Why? Because there were two deer on the side of the hill next to the highway. What. The. Fuck. This would never happen in SoCal. In SoCal there could be blood on the asphalt and an overturned [...]

Tags: cruise control, highway 80, NorCal, socal, SUV

Yum does this funny thing with her fingers, “air quotes”, every time the subject of “camping” comes up. She doesn’t think that I camp. Or rather, she doesn’t think that I’ll ever take her camping. So I decided to fix that. Last Wednesday morning we loaded up the Yaris and left Vacaville along the road [...]

Tags: camping, Chester, Chico, coffee, Deer Creek, Deer Creek Falls, fishing, fly fishing, highway 147, highway 32, highway 36, highway 70, highway 80, highway 89, highway 99, Indian Falls, Indian Valley, Kopper Kettle, Lake Almanor, Pine Shack Frosty, wifi, yaris, yum