12/25/16 • Written by Nancy Does Wanderlust End When You Come Home? Nancy says: Oh dear friends, we are back in Seattle. We arrived March 20, after a winter’s worth of ambling across the South, Southwest, and West Coast. Julianne says: OK, maybe ambivalent about being back. Dreary weather. Different city now. Will our friends […]

We drove up the levee along the Sacramento River, not realizing until later that it had been built by Chinese laborers around the turn of the 20th century. Why didn’t we know? We were going to a Chinese-built hamlet, Locke, a near-ghost town on the National Register of Historic Places. There’s a pretty good article […]

2/14/16 • Written by Julianne What a glorious year to visit Death Valley. This photo is of Desert Gold carpeting the gravely ground in the lowest elevation of the valley near Badwater. SuperbloomThis is the beginning of a Superbloom, something that happens every 10 years or so. As we visit, the blooms are just starting […]

2/9/16 • Written by Julianne Who goes to the Grand Canyon and writes a blog about the design of the dining room? Well it is winter: dark, cold. But pretty wonderful here nevertheless. Stunning scenery, clear days. Grand Canyon is more beautiful than the many well-published photos. The photo above is our view from the […]

Do you remember Biosphere 2? It started out in the late 1980’s and continued into the 1990’s as a project to demonstrate how humans could migrate to alien worlds and create their own livable environment. An interesting idea. NASA was among the hopeful sponsors. Or was that Biosphere 1? What’s the difference between 1 and […]