In these days of COVID, we had a rare occasion to get all dressed up: out to dinner in Healdsburg for Wild Man’s seventh birthday! […]
Generation Z
Week at the Cabin
A ripper week at the cabin: a ride every day, swimming in Lake Alpine (twice), fishing in Beaver Creek, campfires out the back and plenty […]
Annadel
A quick jaunt through Annadel on our way home from the coast…
A Day in Mendocino
An awesome day exploring JDSF following by some beach time and dinner at Patterson’s
Independence Day 2020
The annual bike ride, crabbing, and a night on the dairy!
The Southern Cascades
From Willakenzie we headed south along the Willamette Valley into Linn County and stopped for the night at Waterloo County Park just outside of Lebanon. […]
Northern Oregon
From Bend we shot north on Highway 97 headed for our next mountain biking stop: Hood River’s Post Canyon. Unless one heads west into the […]
Bend
It’s a roughly eight hour drive from our home in Geyserville to Bend, a little too much for a single day with the kids in […]
Shell Beach
A bit of a last minute sojourn to the Central Coast to join the McGarrys at a palatial abode they rented with Michele’s family for […]
Family JDSF MTB
A nice break from the heat out on the coast for a big day of riding in Jackson Demonstration State Forest. With all the riding […]
School’s Out for Summer!
It’s certainly been a strange school year, but fortunately the weather cooperated yesterday before the rain today to treat the kiddos to a ski after […]
River Days
A hot Memorial Day long weekend to welcome summer!
First River Day of 2020
Could always be worse!
Pine Flat Easter Camping
Who says we can’t have a fun easter camping trip close to home in the midst of COVID-19 isolation! The Munselles took us up to […]
Birthday Horses
No birthday party with everyone in self-isolation, but our self-isolation buddies the Munselles were able to join us for a birthday ride out by the […]
Happy Birthday Lilia!
Made a big day of it, even though we’re not allowed to go anywhere. Her requests were: crepes for breakfast, tuna melts for lunch, burgers […]
Utah Ski (?) Week
We planned this spring break back in November with our neighbors, the Munselles: buy Ikon ski passes for the season, ski Tahoe all winter and […]
Steamboat Springs
When I was 13 (or maybe it was 12…) my parents took me to Steamboat Springs in Colorado for a ski trip over my summer […]
Point Reyes Birthday Hike
A hike and bike out to the coast for Lisa’s birthday
Fort Bragg and Albion
With nothing but sunny skies and spring-like weather for the past few weeks, we didn’t think it was worth making the trip to Tahoe for […]