Day trips

Day Trip: Kayaking on North Lake Tahoe

It was a beautifully warm day in Lake Tahoe. A perfect day to kayak for the first time. We contacted Tahoe City Kayaks to see if they could set our […]

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Day Trip: Santa Teresa County Park, CA

It was a beautiful Sunday. The perfect day to be unplugged and be outside. Where to go? We packed a picnic lunch and decided on a hike somewhere out in […]

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Day Trip: Uvas Canyon County Park, CA

It was a four day weekend but we weren’t able to get away due to the children’s busy schedules. Each one had something to do that was important to them […]

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Pinnacles National Park, CA

Have you ever had one of those gloriously perfect weekends where every moment just falls wonderfully into place and you are left breathlessly wondering how the next moment will go? […]

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Day trip: Apple Hill, CA

We spent the day on Apple Hill visiting local farms to apple pick, peruse crafty fairs and partake in devouring tasty treats. Apple Hill covers the towns of Camino, Cedar […]

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Day trip: Oregon Coast Aquarium, OR

The boys and I rode our bikes from South Beach SP where we were camping to the Oregon Coast Aquarium one afternoon. The ride was very easy and fairly short, […]

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Day trip: Battle Rock City Park, OR

We left Mills Creek Campground and made our way North up the coast into Oregon. We had reservations for Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park in Florence for the next […]

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Day trip: Prairie Creek Redwoods SP

I have been wanting to visit Prairie Creek for a long time now, so you can imagine how excited I was to finally be in the park!! We saw Elk feeding […]

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Day trip: Hiking Del Norte Redwoods SP

The kids and I took a trail walk on a few connecting loops that departed from the campground and ended up at the entrance gates to the park. Since dogs are […]

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Day Trip: Avenue of the Giants

“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they […]

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Day Trip: Walking the Founder’s Trail in the Redwoods

This afternoon we hiked the Founder’s Trail, and completed our […]

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Day trip: The Visitor’s Center in Humboldt Redwoods SP

Today we stopped in at the Visitor’s center in Humboldt […]

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Day trip: Dyerville River Access

Running along the Avenue of the Giants is the Eel River. Its lovely waters snaking in and out of the cover of the forest seduced us to find access to […]

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Day trip: Point Reyes Station and Limantour Beach, CA

We woke up to a beautiful day on the coast […]

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Day trip: Big River Beach at Mendocino Headlands SP

We were driving back towards Casini Ranch on Hwy 1 […]

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Day trip: MacKerricher State Park

We headed south on 128 from Hendy Woods. The drive is lovely, through forests and the vineyards of Anderson Valley. Would have loved to have stopped for a little wine […]

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