Picks and Pans – Around Mono Lake

PICKS:

Mono Lake County Park

Our first stop at Mono Lake was actually on Los Angeles city property that is being leased to Mono County for use as a park. For those of you not acquainted with the decades long controversy surrounding Mono Lake, that may be confusing, so let me explain. L.A. has long […]

Picks and Pans – In and around Bridgeport, CA

PICKS:

Bridgeport Inn

Walking in to the Bridgeport Inn was a little bit like stepping back into roadtrip times of yore. The owner’s young son seated us in the small hotel dining room as Frank Sinatra played softly on the radio. We sipped our coffee and watched the locals go about their daily business in […]

Picks and Pans – From Portland to Crater Lake

Western Cascade Scenic Byway

It would be a simple matter to convince yourself that anything of importance in Oregon is along I-5, and many people do just that, which makes all the other amazing byways through the state that much better by mere fact that they’re almost unpopulated. Thanks to Sean’s penchant for studying the […]