Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn some ways it seems a lifetime ago since I sat in our garden in California and wrote a post about packing up and leaving. In other ways the memory of that day and the emotions are as vivid as if it were only a few days ago. Since moving back to the UK in…
Author: Toni
We’re not in California anymore
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve been back in the UK for 4 months now. I like to think I’m fairly well balanced emotionally yet I am only recently at the point where my heart doesn’t do a little flip and my eyes don’t well up every time I think of a California friend, place or memory. I’ve been working on…
Leaving a little bit of my heart in San Francisco
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was 27 when we left England for California. The plan had been to stay for a year or two but it’s now been a little over 23 years, so you could say we fell in love with the Golden State. As I write this, I’m sitting in my garden while the packers box up all…
John Muir Trail – Section 4
Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes39 miles over 4 days from Tuolumne Meadow to Happy Isles
John Muir Trail – Section 3
Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes54 miles over 5 days from Muir Trail Ranch to Red’s Meadow.
John Muir Trail – Section 2
Estimated Reading Time: 15 minutes87 miles over 8 days from Independence to Muir Trail Ranch
The John Muir Trail – Section 1
Estimated Reading Time: 15 minutesSection 1 of 4:
75 miles over 7 days from Cottonwood Lakes Trailhead to Independence
South Lake > North Lake
Estimated Reading Time: 12 minutesA 63 mile one way hike in the Eastern Sierras completed over 6 days and 5 nights.
Benson Loop
Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutesA 60 mile loop through Hoover Wilderness and northeast Yosemite National Park over 7 days and 6 nights.
Desolation Wilderness, Tahoe
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutesA 32 mile loop in Desolation Wilderness over 4 days and 3 nights.