Prior to seeing the Blazers play the Kings on New Years Day, I took a slight detour to the northern California coast to get a therapeutic dose of nature. The state may have its share of problems, but it’s got some things, such as the tallest trees on earth and ocean sunsets to die for, …
Last July, the Carr Fire burned almost 400 square miles and forced nearly forty thousand residents of Redding, CA, including myself, to evacuate. The center of it was Whiskeytown Lake, about ten miles from my abode, and five months later there are wide swathes of landscape that look as if World War I passed over …
Not having planned an extended vacation this year, I’ve taken a few day trips to assuage the restlessness that hits me around July. Fortunately, I have a national park an hour’s drive from my house: Lassen Volcanic. The park consists of the usual wooded trails and streams, but also a 10,463 foot volcano that can …
Full story is here. (Thanks to Jim Pethokoukis’ Twitter feed.)
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It’s been a while since I first posted in EPB about this website, Project Space Planes, and their delightfully Anglocomic Youtube video below which shows a group of British engineers launching paper airplanes into space on behalf of the Samsung Corp. to see where the planes, and their sturdy microchip cargo, would land. Most of …