Los Angeles, CA - Beverly Hills is a wealthy community much loved by locals and visitors. Drive around some of the local neighborhoods and into Bel Air. Whoooee. Fancy. You can see the homes in the flats, and each one has a clearly showing security sign on a stake driven into the ground somewhere in their front yard. Drive up into the hills and you are lucky if you can even see the homes - as often they are gated or protected in front by large … [Read more...]
Los Angeles, CA – Irvine
Irvine (current population over 230,000) takes its namesake from James Irvine, the founder of Irvine Ranch (along with two partners). This huge ranch was originally 185 square miles of land (about a 1/4 of the entire present day Orange County). Irvine's son, also named James - inherited the ranch and then founded The Irvine Company in 1894. After his death in 1947 the company was controlled by his Foundation and stock holders. Eventually it was … [Read more...]
Los Angeles, CA – Santa Monica
Santa Monica is a fairly wealthy community located along the Pacific Ocean west of Los Angeles. The 10 freeway ends in Santa Monica and is the main freeway leading to this city from Los Angeles. PCH or Highway 1 runs along the western part of Santa Monica bordering the ocean. The famous Santa Monica Pier is located near the end of the 10 freeway in Santa Monica (with good traffic this is about 20-30 minutes from downtown LA. You can … [Read more...]
Los Angeles, CA – Comedy Clubs
Los Angeles is home to a number of creative comedy clubs and other "laugh" outlets. We continue to update and add new comedy clubs to this page over time - here are just a few in the Los Angeles area. Comedy & Magic Club is located at 1018 Hermosa Ave in Hermosa Beach. Parking is either on side streets or in a open-air parking lot almost across the street (3 parking meters are available and accept credit cards - you can check how … [Read more...]
Bicycling Baja California
La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico January 06, 2003 Baja 1000 and more Finally!! The Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north latitude, the start of the tropics) is almost upon us after a twelve hundred mile chase down the spine of Baja California, Mexico. From Orange County, California I joined my German pal Bernhard Koch, whom I had met while cycling in Alaska in 2001, to ride our bicycles down the 'Carreterra Transpeninsular', the Mexican … [Read more...]
Las Vegas, NV – Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam - is one of America's national treasures and is a must visit for anyone who is staying in the Las Vegas area. It is located about 35 minutes outside of Las Vegas off of US Highway 93 heading towards Phoenix, Arizona. There is a security checkpoint on the road several miles from the actual Dam itself. Random checks are conducted but chances are you will be waived through. Parking is in the recently constructed parking garage built … [Read more...]
Biosphere, AZ – July 2002
Near Tucson, Arizona is the Biosphere II, a modern-day $200 million dollar tightly sealed ecosystem. It was originally constructed to determine if people could live for a particular length of time in a sealed environment. Now its used for research, education and public outreach activities. General tours are given daily except on Christmas Day - Reservations are recommended for the "Under the Glass Tour." The general tours take about 2.5 hours … [Read more...]
Gus’s Fresh Jerky, Olancha CA – March 2002
Gus's Fresh Jerky Olancha - When in Olancha, CA be sure to stop by Gus's Fresh Jerky shop located at 580 S Highway 395. Phone (760) 764-2822. The Olancha store is Gus's flagship store and was started in 1996. He also runs stores in Needles, Ca and in Golden Valley, Arizona. Besides their normal jerky, they also have elk, buffalo and venison jerky. Their selection is fantastic with many different types of flavors. People come from miles around … [Read more...]
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania – Route Itinerary
The following is a list of camps and descriptions that we stayed at while hiking up the Shira route. Base Camp is located at 6500 feet among lush vegetation. During certain times of the year elephants and herds of animals can be seen in this area. During clear days, there are stunning views of Mt. Meru and Mt. Kilimanjaro. Several small roads and trails are in this area - some of the trails lead up to small mountains from which there are … [Read more...]
Bishop, CA – Bristlecone Forest
Bristlecone pine trees are the oldest continuously standing living trees on the planet. With that said, clonal systems of trees date back further but are not the original specimen like with the Bristlecone pines. Other ancient clonal systems include 80,000-year-old Quaking Aspen grove in Utah, 11,000 plus year old Creosote Bush stands in California's Mojave Desert and a root system of a Norway Spruce tree in Sweden found to to be almost 10,000 … [Read more...]
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