If you are up for going underground, there are plenty of large caves worth exploring in the gold country. Murphys can be a great central location for exploring one or all of them. Here is a little about the differences between them, in order of furthest from Murphys to closest. Most tours begin at 10am in the summer and the last tour leaves at 5pm. Tours generally last about an hour.           Black Chasm...

This weekend we are heading for Yosemite. Yosemite is one of most popular national parks in California, and for good reason. The beauty there is incredible. If you can overlook that you will be sharing the area with thousands of other tourists (not as bad as it sounds, it’s plenty spacious) then you may find many advantages to being in a well-traveled park. The one I most look forward to is the wide...

If California knows how to do something well, it is how to go big. Big state, big deficit, (oh wait, did I say that out loud?) and really big trees. You may say, “don’t most trees look big?” But we are talking Jack-and-the-beanstalk-could-have-lived-here type of big. If anything could touch the sky, it would be these redwoods. Visiting Calaveras Big Trees was a day trip during our trek through...

I received some great responses from folks about more local and national summer camps. I thought it worth updating the post. Check here for the extended version. And if you have more favorites, let me know! Share / Save / Send

During the month of May, I am holding a Geocache Blogging Event. Geocaching is where you hunt for caches that have previously been hidden, using GPS coordinates and occasionally some hints. (The coordinates and hints are listed at www.geocaching.com.)  I hope you will join me in geocaching sometime in May, then post your experience about it. If you are unsure about how to geocache, you can read more about...