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Time for one of my favorite summer outings, a combination biking/birding adventure. The winds were calm, the tide was low, and many shoreb...

This is gold country, and my friends encouraged me to visit the nearby Empire Mine (now a California State Historic Park). Standing at th...

The route for today would be shorter and less strenuous, but my friends humored me with an earlier start. We meandered through rural res...

In Nevada City, we were staying in cottages that are part of a vintage motor lodge (dating back to 1933). The place is quaint and funky; my ...

My friends had mapped out an 80-mile route for the first day of our biking vacation. After plotting the course on a map, I saw a straightfor...

With most people celebrating Independence Day, traffic was light and I made it to Auburn yesterday without growing exhausted in the process....

I learned my lesson from past Fourths of July : Don't sleep in. To the early arrivals go the pancakes. My post-pancake aspirations we...