Author: Rebecca J Hogue
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Vacation Day 4 – Mono Lake Basin
Read more: Vacation Day 4 – Mono Lake BasinAfter a cold wet night, we awoke to a nice sunny day. Since we both slept in Vance last night neither of us slept particularly well. We each kept waking each other up. Although it was sunny and I had a chance to start enjoying my morning cup of coffee, that was soon disrupted by screaming…
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Vacation Day 3 – Calaveras South Grove Trail
Read more: Vacation Day 3 – Calaveras South Grove TrailMornings at a quiet campground are one of my favorite places. It is just the first week of the “high” season, so really it is a shoulder season here. It isn’t exactly warm, which means my fingers freeze as I write, and my warm coffee tastes just that much better as it warms my whole…
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Vacation Day 2 – Calaveras North Grove Trail
Read more: Vacation Day 2 – Calaveras North Grove TrailSince we awoke to a stove the did not work, and we didn’t want to use our pots on an open fire, I had to get creative with breakfast. Fortunately, I had purchased some fuel tablets to use as fire starter: they could also be used to heat a pot of water. The process was slow, but we…
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Vacation Day 1 – A comedy of errors
Read more: Vacation Day 1 – A comedy of errorsJune 3, 2015 I found myself sitting at the campsite, slightly drunk after enjoying a glass of wine, thinking what else could go wrong? When we were packing, I figured we didn’t need the old matches that were in our camping kit. We had a nice lighter; however, I didn’t realize that the lighter was…
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Sailing
Read more: SailingSailing is something that both Scott and I enjoy. Back in Ottawa, we spent several years racing sailboats. It is in part how we learned to communicate effectively early on in our relationship. It takes a lot to of communication to effectively race together! Last summer, we decided to try out sailing with the America’s…
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Tourist food and ‘fine dining’
Read more: Tourist food and ‘fine dining’We are up in Yosemite for our anniversary and finding ourselves wishing we had booked a condo with a kitchen rather than a hotel room. We tried twice to have a ‘nice’ anniversary meal (first at the Wawona Inn and then at the Ahwahnee Inn) – both times we were thwarted by mediocre food passed…
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Not exactly how we planned it
Read more: Not exactly how we planned itLast month Becky moved to California (yay), but last week everything changed. Last Thursday, Becky was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is blogging about her experience at http://bcbecky.com. This is not exactly the journey we had planned, but we are grateful that we are living in the same city, and that the weather here is…
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Portola Redwoods State Park – California
Read more: Portola Redwoods State Park – CaliforniaWe explored a new State Park today – Portola Redwoods State Park. It is about an hour drive from our place. Unlike the trails we have hiked at Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the trail we hiked here was much less flat. There were not as many big trees. When we looked into the history…