If you want to do San Francisco in one day...you gotta know people. People who know just what to do, how to get there, and with a place to stay with the most beautiful view of the city but away from the crowds to just chill after a full day of sightseeing. Fortunately, we know people. Christina and Gregg are our people. Best tour guides and the bay area. As we entered the bay area from the north to meet them in their home in Tiburon, chic little village acro...

Sorry for the radio silence. Our three days in Yosemite was back to nature in many ways...one of them was no access to wi-fi or cell service. Crossing the barren desert of Death Valley and crossing the Tioga Pass into Yosemite National Park made it clear we were no longer in Kansas. Well, we actually never were in Kansas, that's just a classic movie reference, but we were truly a long way from our first night in the Walmart parking lot in Fishkill, NY. Walkin...

No, this is not CJ in New York City! We did not make a u-turn in Albuquerque and head back east. This is the New York, New York Casino in Vegas, where CJ went for a wild taxi ride on the casino coaster. It is crazy how you can go from Venice to Egypt within a couple of blocks and see a volcano erupt along the side of Las Vegas Blvd. We didn't gamble, but we did pick up a couple of decks of casino cards which came in handy for the many card games we've been pl...

What can you really say to describe the Grand Canyon? You really just have to see it to feel the "grandness" of the place. So, I'll keep this blog short and just ask you to check out the photos and the video of CJ and I flying over the edge to the canyon floor in a helicopter. Anna was still getting over altitude sickness so she and Julie stayed back at camp. The five minute trip in the helicopter was much more appealing to CJ than the 9 hour hike down the Br...

Ace is our oasis! See what I did there. Say it out loud. I don't know what it is called in English, but in Spanish poetry it is called "calambur." It's like a play on words where you repeat two phrases that share the same sound but mean different things. Anyway, that is not the point. The point is that in our long trek across the nation in our rather small trailer, finding a day or two where we get out of the trailer is like finding an oasis in the desert. ...