If you have a kid who has a fascination for machines that fly, Future of Flight Aviation Center in Mukilteo (a few miles north of Seattle – Washington ) will…
Category: Kid-Friendly Trips
Our World: Folsom Lake
The weekend before last we drove through Patterson Pass Road and saw what the rains had done to the Diablo Range this winter. Then last weekend we went east to see…
Pixar Play parade: Faces and Floats
We had heard about Mickey’s Soundsational Parade in Disneyland but didn’t get to watch properly. What we didn’t know while were were at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA was…
DCA: A California in California
If I were to put it straight out there, Disney California Adventure Park is rightly ‘California in a nutshell,’ with a Disney touch, of course. Built on what used to…
Things-to-do in Disneyland — Toddler edition
Disneyland was the place our sonny boy had had on the top of his travel wishlist for a long time. Even though it had been in the cards for over…
Glimpses of the ‘Happiest Place On Earth’
There’s Mickey Mouse there. And Minnie and Donald and Daisy and Goofy. Then there’s Winnie the Pooh and friends and of course Sleeping Beauty, Ariel and the curious creatures of…
A dark sand beach tucked away in the hills
Muir Beach is 15 miles north of SF. This beach is surrounded by the hills of the Northern Coast Ranges and blessed with dark sands and remnants of a lagoon.
The Cheesiest Place I have ever been to!
Did you know you could tour the Tillamook Cheese Factory? This factory in Oregon also offers cheese tastings. There’s an on-site store, too.
Utah’s rocky deserts – II
The Lights and Shades-of-Grey edition: As I went through my travel albums I found that I had more photographs from that morning’s (read post- Utah’s Rocky Deserts -I) Amtrak journey…
World’s tallest free-standing totem pole!
A few miles north of the Drive Thru Chandlier Tree is another tourist attraction literally nestled among Redwood Trees of North California — a place called Confusion Hill (in Piercy,…