by Lorna Harris on October 26, 2010
Most people check into a Las Vegas hotel with sequins, high heels and bling. We arrived in Vegas last weekend with four mountain bikes. Our objective was to ride the Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail, an eight mile round trip ride from Lake Mead to Hoover Dam.
Driving through the area last August, we stopped to do [...]
by Lorna Harris on May 4, 2010
I think you could spend your whole life exploring California and never quite see it all. I have many favourite areas, the Sierras, Sequoia National Park, Joshua Tree but Big Sur has captured my heart the most. As a vast generalisation, for those of you who don’t know California very well, it’s north along the [...]
by Lorna Harris on August 25, 2009
During our recent trip to Mammoth Lakes, we took a trip out to Bodie State Historic Park. It’s an old gold mining ghost town and I was expecting a one street town with a saloon, jail and places to tie up horses, just like an old cowboy film. But Bodie is so much bigger than [...]
by Lorna Harris on July 28, 2009
We toured Hearst Castle last week during a drive up the coast. It sits up in the hills above San Simeon, near Cambria. It’s a fascinating place to stop and a good place to break your journey as you travel along Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Monterey.
William Randolph Hearst created the estate during [...]