We crossed our first real mountain pass and made our way to the Interstate. There are way too many people in Silicon Valley.

We stopped in Camping World, then tried to camp at Uvas Canyon campground. It’s supposed to be open year-round, but they lie.

27/28 August 2007 Normally, the only total eclipses I see are those that occur when a cat passes between me and my reading lamp. Unlike Mother Nature, these can typically be hurried along with a little shove. However, when I heard that there’d be a total eclipse of the moon early on Tuesday morning, I [...]

19 June 2007 I went there looking for one particular historical marker. I’d ridden past it on two separate occasions, each time when it was closed. I knew there was some kind of a local park here, but had somehow failed to realize that it was a heritage park. Even though I’d learned of the [...]

Barb, Don and I set out to nearby Uvas Reservoir to look at something quite unusual. There has been so little precipitation this winter that the water level is at its lowest for fifty years, and in fact if we don’t get any significant rain soon it will be completely dry by mid-February. The problem [...]