I’ve had a couple of nights at a campground on the beach, just 40 miles from Los Angeles, getting some of the road stress eased out. For the next few days I’ll be at a hotel, being a writer with a bunch of other writers, so it is an entirely different environment than driving hundreds… Continue reading Thornhill-Broome Beach
Hearst and Denali
One of the reasons I began this trip so many days in advance of the conference was that, in addition to the novel research, I wanted to do a few things in California that I might not be able to schedule, now that Debra has returned to Texas. While she was in Malibu, we made… Continue reading Hearst and Denali
San Andreas Lake
For many years, on our family trips, I would drive and Mary Ann would navigate. Or vise, versa. Especially in cities, I like to have a navigator. The turns and the traffic happen too quickly to be bothered by a map. The past few years I’ve had a GPS unit mounted on my dash, just… Continue reading San Andreas Lake