Visalia Travel Blogs

As with most trips I have ever taken, the planning stage is extensive and way overblown.  This one is no different, except that the whole thing began more than six months ago, which makes it even worse than the others.  I've had all that time to get things ready, check out all of the poss…

If you know me at all, you know that I am a super fan of anything medieval.  But I don’t live in a place where you will find that kind of thing.  The center of the state of California wasn’t even more than a total wasteland back when knights and armor and that type of thing were aroun…

Home at last! Just can’t wait to get back home again. Back in my own bed, Eating my wife’s good home cooking. Shucks even she made the comment that she was getting tired of having to eat out every meal. After being on the road for 37 days, it feels so good to get back home. Now we have to go th…

I don’t know how many meet-ups you have been to and as a matter of fact I’m not sure how many I have been to either.  But the one I attended today was one of the best so far. Now this one wasn’t advertised much on TravBuddy because work schedules and availability had a big hand in this…

Unlike the last escape this one really did last more than one day.  And because of that we found it necessary to do a little planning.  But again it had to be very quiet and discretionary. No one should know about these voyages into the other realms.  From outside our living structur…

The recent full moon gave me another opportunity to get out and try my camera at night.  This time I went to my back yard and waited until the moon came up over a tree that was between me and a full view.  I thought it might add to the shot, worth a try anyway.  Again, using the diff…

Friday, May 22nd was a pretty good day for us.  Not only did two cousins arrive from Seattle, Washington for a large family gather coming up this weekend in the foothills nearby, but we had the honor of having two of our good TravBuddy friends stop by for a quick visit on their way from Tucson…

It was hot today, but not hot enough to stay home, so the girls and I decided to head to Plaza Park. Maybe we could play on the swings, roll around in the grass, or feed the ducks. We knew it would be fun no matter what, so we headed over and played around like young children without a care in the …

This really doesn’t fall into a "trip" or "travel" but what the heck.  It happened. I know I have mentioned in the past that I have I seem to have a connection with animals.  And most of the time when I try to connect, if I get a response, it is favorable.  Oh, they don’t speak …

For our big trip this year we decided to take a cruise.  Something we had never done before.  We got a very good deal on the cruise part of the trip and figured we have to suffer anyway on the flights to and from no matter where we decided to go.  Well, we picked Alaska for a few rea…

Prologue In the fiction novel "Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, the word "plankton" does not appear.  In this blog, entitled "Escape from Reality" the words "giraffe", "turtle","internet", and "schematic", and the term "we’re not in Kansas any more" appear once, and very early at that.  In…

Recently I was looking through Jan’s (JP-NED) special photos, the ones he has done at one of the on-line sites, and spotted one that I thought I might change to make it even a little different.  So I wrote and asked his permission and went to work on it.  The first resulting picture too…

  Every trip turns up something that is not planned, or unusual, or just plain weird.  Well our summer vacation trip this year included a few things that fit into that category.  This year we had seven such things.       1. Game Crossing   Being out in midd…

That last drive for us is about 350 miles. It’s that long one that we have done over and over and over again.  And every time we do it we dislike it just the way we disliked it last time and time before that.  I doesn’t seem to matter whether you start early to get home earlier or put…

Every woodie wagon is or was at one time a "surfer" machine.  And almost every one of the entries in the show had at least one decal to prove it. Some had entire windows nearly covered in them. I got several pictures of the ones I saw. Also, I had to get a few shots of the various interesting…