The Travel Notes

We're working our means through the American Southwest. This week, it's Yuma equally nosotros run our means over into Arizona. Yuma is at the convergence of California, Arizona, too Mexico... Watch the Video! In the old days, cowboys would come upwardly hither looking for a skillful saloon, a bath, too mayhap somebody to pass the black with.  Today, we’re looking for a total breakfast, a large room with a comfortable bed, too a skillful wifi connection. Near the western cease of town, reminders of the old days sit down across the state highway from each other. The Territorial Prison on a bluff looking over the Colorado River held the area's ne'er produce wells inside its thick, stone walls.  Those who were to a greater extent than upstanding…or mayhap simply lucky at non beingness caught…would guide maintain a mutual frigidity beer land playing cards across the means at Lute's Casino . For this trip, our hotel would hold out the Springhil...

Some days, I get got to a greater extent than ideas inwards my caput than I get got fourth dimension to write. Today is non i of those days. Writer's block is no fun when you've dedicated to writing a novel even out or ii each week.  So what produce I write about? How nigh non beingness able to? It's Wednesday, in addition to hence I'd commonly get got i of our in-between stories...travel tips, adventures unopen to home, or other non-travelogue features that tally inwards the middle of a locomote story. Maybe I tin produce an a accessible attractions even out but yesteryear similar a shot I don't get got fourth dimension to driblet dead through my notes, pictures, in addition to inquiry to come upwards up amongst i (yes, it takes me to a greater extent than than a few minutes to whip i of those up). Same amongst a transit report. Travel tip? Don't driblet dead a locomote blogger.  Kidding...it's great, when yous tin mean value of something to writ...

Borregos Against the Setting Sun While Tim in addition to I are writing, editing, in addition to polishing upwards our newest report, let's revisit the beautiful in addition to remote Anza Borrego State Park alongside side trips to Julian in addition to the Salton Sea... Two to 3 hours exterior of Los Angeles, depending on your route, is the desert of Anza Borrego. We opt for the northern route of driving yesteryear Palm Springs, turning southward at the Salton Sea, in addition to and hence dorsum westward into Anza Borrego Desert State Park in addition to the town of Borrego Springs. Watch the Video (Part 1)! We drive over to the unique cloak-and-dagger visitor’s center, exactly abide by that it is closed. We brand it on a Wed exactly it’s alone opened upwards Th through Sunday. I suppose the state’s massive budget cuts mightiness guide maintain something to practise alongside that. The accessible restrooms are open, though, in addition to are welcom...

Our ratings are... Fully Accessible - You tin access all of the attraction, amongst no problem, inwards whatever type of wheelchair. Mostly Accessible - You tin access almost of the attraction, in addition to all of the of import parts of it, amongst your wheelchair. Partially Accessible - You tin access a proficient bargain of the attraction only some parts are inaccessible in addition to some of import parts you'll miss. Inaccessible - Kind of speaks for itself, avoid if you're inwards a wheelchair. Here's Monaco... The Casino - Fully accessible. Accessible entrance it to the side of the primary entrance. Long pants, clothes shirt, in addition to jacket required to enter. Entrance fee charged. Royal Palace Square - Fully accessible. Get to the exceed from the Place 'd Arms past times taking the accessible bus. Get in that place earlier 11am if you lot desire to run into the changing of the guard. Royal Neighborhood - Mostly accessible. T...

It's chop-chop becoming extinct hither inwards California and, equally California goes hence does the residuum of the country, await for a plastic pocketbook ban inwards your roughly future, too. While I empathize the reasonings behind the bans together with the environmental ramifications of keeping them around, I volition immature adult woman their extreme utility. I produce induce got to tell that I never mail a plastic pocketbook to a landfill or litter the roadside alongside it. It's also valuable.  Instead, I role it until at that spot is no longer whatever life left to it, hence mail it off to recycle. Far from but beingness the pocketbook the groceries come upward domicile in, that is but the get-go of the uses this pocketbook volition endure. Leftovers inwards Glad bowls instruct taken to function inwards them for lunch.  I business our hanging institute baskets alongside them to conserved water. Shipping boxes instruct lined alongside wadded upw...

There’s equally good many to count, really. Maybe millions. Whenever I convey it up, I’m met amongst either shuddering disgust or local pride. Here inwards this narrow alley, in that place is non ane iota of wall infinite that is non covered upwardly amongst a used wad of gum. This colorful fiesta of chicle in addition to spit is Bubblegum Alley, where locals conduct maintain been sticking their paste on the wall since World War II. Welcome to San Luis Obispo. Watch the Video! The alley tin serve equally a metaphor. Halfway betwixt Los Angeles in addition to San Francisco simply doing its ain thing, this pretty college town lives inwards some other California…the ane non defined yesteryear large cities. Rather, it’s coastal, green, in addition to laid-back. While many people coming from L.A. conduct maintain the coastal road upwardly Highway 101 through Ventura, Santa Barbara, in addition to Santa Maria; our road takes us over the hills from t...

  While nosotros had fun inward Baja, the bumpy dirt roads to the beach weren't to variety to our wheelchair lift.  Not long afterward nosotros returned home, it began to brand all sorts of awful noises before quitting altogether.  The local mobility dealer said they could gear upwards it merely they had to lodge parts as well as nosotros had to aspect (it would eventually accept over iii weeks). Being stuck inward the trouble solid is no adventure, fifty-fifty for a homebody similar Tim.  The entirely decent eatery inside walking distance to our trouble solid is a pizza parlor (which nosotros walked to the get-go week) merely afterward two weeks, amongst cabin fever setting inward as well as our anniversary appointment arriving, nosotros had to create something. Consulting our local motorcoach company's spider web page, nosotros found that the draw past times our trouble solid would easily accept us to Pasadena or Claremont, both fun places to kill time...