Jane and Paddys Grande Adventure

Traveling cross-country via Amtrak

When a bicycle ride is too slow and an airplane is too fast, the next best option from California to DC is an Amtrak train. Before we secured tickets we […]

The sheer awe of Yosemite

After a marathon-recovery breakfast of avocado toast and fruit, we repacked our luggage and said goodbye to the Pacific Coast Mountains and headed east to Mariposa. As our drive took us […]

Jane and Paddys Grande Adventure

Big Sur: Discovering Pacific Gold

It took all of 1 day to fall in love with San Francisco, but our schedule insisted we move along. After scoring an airplane bypass — i.e. 2 tickets for […]

Jane and Paddys Grande Adventure

Hello San Francisco

The California clock shows 5:30AM and coffee shops in our Russian Hill vicinity don’t wake until 7:30am so we tapped our watches as if speeding time along, wondering how we […]

Flying

First flight

By 5am the alarms were off. Slamming down a quick cup of coffee we were en route to meet with family, who would valet service us to the BWI airport […]

Plain Jane Plain Talk

Journals from the road, trails and at sea

Jane and Paddys Grande Adventure

Traveling cross-country via Amtrak

The sheer awe of Yosemite

Big Sur: Discovering Pacific Gold

Hello San Francisco

First flight