Category: National Parks
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If you are driving from the San Francisco Bay Area toward the towering granite of Yosemite, Highway 120 is your primary artery. And right when you hit Manteca, at the intersection of Highway 120 and Jack Tone Road, you’ll find a mandatory pitstop: Ramos Country Corner. It is one of my absolutely favorite finds in…
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How can you not love a good road trip? From San Francisco to Yosemite Valley, I’m convinced there is no journey in which you experience so much beauty compacted into so little time. Yes, it is about 4 hours from San Francisco to Yosemite, and your arrival will be every bit as stunning as you expect,…
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If you have never fallen in love with trees or ever wondered why JRR Tolkien created Treebeard and the Ents, then you have never been to Muir Woods. “It is not wizardry, but a power far older. A power that walked the earth, ere elf sang or hammer rang.“ — Gandalf to Théoden in The Two Towers, “The Road to…
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Primer Journeys by nature are not efficient. And yet I spend so much of my day-to-day striving for efficiency. Maybe that’s why I love travel. It is a true respite from my daily routine. When I plan a trip – and I even plan free time – I like to allow of inefficiency. Road trips…