Tehachapi, United States

Had another not so great night's sleep at a hostel.  I totally embrace the ideology that hostels are built upon and the culture it creates, but am afraid I have outgrown the actual involvement.  I have become a very ...

... map in the hotel other plans take shape and the day takes unexpected twists and turns into one of the best days ever. Tehachapi it turns out is famous for the "Tehachapi Loop", a 4km railroad loop that allows trains to climb through the mountains. The ...

I let the girls sleep a little late today and then we headed towards San Francisco. Our one stop for the day was Muir Woods National Park. This is a beautiful forest of old growth redwoods, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. We had a nice ...

... ;the Tehachapi shop a few times and sometimes got to connect with our cousin Suzi, who lives in a sort of suburb of Tehachapi called Bear Valley Springs. Unfortunately, not as much as I would have liked, partly because we  enjoy Suzi a lot ...