Travel

Three skydivers performed a parachute jump from a helicopter, near the shores of Lake Tahoe today.  One jumper landed safely on the beach and two landed in the water.  One of the jumpers successfully made it back to shore, but the other did ...

The America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride rolls around Lake Tahoe on Saturday, June 2.  This noncompetitive event, for a sold out crowd of 3,500 cyclists, begins and ends at the Horizon Casino Resort at Stateline.  Riders will begin the ride f...

Continuing on the food theme, here is one of the meals I whipped up over the holiday weekend.  I got the idea of homemade pizzas from my good friends Lish and Josh.  When I was living in Los Angeles, Lish was a longtime college friend and one...

I almost titled this post 21 Days in the Big Ditch.  Many boaters refer to the Grand Canyon as such, but I have such a reverence for the place that I couldn't do it.  Everyone who has been down in the GC tells me it is a life changing experie...

Sacramento County Fair By Elena M. Macaluso It’s time for the fair! No, not that fair. That’s in July. I’m talking about the Sacramento County Fair, which starts Thursday, May 24 and runs through Memorial Day, May 28. Like the California State Fair, the Sacramento County Fair is held at Cal Expo. The theme:...

Sundial Bridge at Redding's Turtle Bay Exploration Park(To see the previous post on the Sundial Bridge, click here.)Okay, I admit it, I’m repeating myself. I’ve written about the Sundial Bridge before on this blog. And now I'm back.On this trip I w...

One thing that we did a lot of during our staycation was indulge in some really fantastic meals.  We cooked long dinners, drank bottles of bubbly prosecco and enjoyed the fact that the weather was finally turning.  It had been a while since w...

Lance Armstrong won the Florida 70.3 Ironman Triathlon today.  Armstrong swam a fast 1.2 mile swim, the fastest 56 mile bike split and the fastest 13.1 mile run split.  His overall time was 3:45:38, more than 11 minutes faster than second p...