Danielle’s spring break snuck up on us, so we didn’t plan anything until 3
weeks before it happened. We wanted to use my frequent flyer miles plus free
ticket to go somewhere, and North Carolina sounded nice. Unfortunately the
cheap (25k miles) frequent flyer seats to there were full. After trying a
number of destinations it seemed Seattle was [...]

A long time ago, Tone and I met WLD at Joshua Tree. He told us about a Yahoo group of hikers who do trips. Once I got home I signed up, but didn’t do anything besides occasionally read trip reports. Tone took to it much more and went on a lot of trips. He organized [...]

Since Danielle and I spent Christmas apart, we felt the need to do something
together before the end of her Christmas break. So on Thursday, January 1,
2004 we drove out to Mojave National
Preserve.

On the way there, we stopped at Danielle’s dad to drop off the rats so they
would get adequately spoiled over the weekend. We made [...]

For Danielle’s fall break we wanted to explore the northwest. After a little research we found out that plane tickets to Seattle are expensive. But we could drive. But if we’re driving anyway, we might as well go slow and enjoy it. So we decided upon a leisurely road trip up the Pacific Coast, going [...]

Friday July 11, I drove straight from work to Tone’s house. We had a tasty
dinner of egg burritos and started driving north on the 101 at around 5:20.
Pretty soon we encountered some very slow traffic, which lasted until we
finally passed an accident a little north of the tunnel. We arrived at
Millerton recreational area a little [...]

To celebrate the end of the school year, Danielle organised a weekend trip to Catalina Island. The plan called for leaving Santa Barbara at 4:15pm, Friday June 13. Morgan and Shane picked us up in Shane’s van, and at about 4:20 we were on the road to LA. We hoped to get to San [...]

For her birthday, Danielle asked me to take her camping the following weekend. Pretty much at random I picked a campground from ReserveUSA.com: Chilkoot (also spelled Chilcoot and Chilikoot) near Bass Lake.
MapQuest told us it was a little over 300 miles, and we’d get to the 5 by way of the 126. That takes us [...]

Last Christmas Danielle and I took a bump to get free plane tickets. Not too long after that we turned them into round trip tickets to Denver for the duration of Danielle’s spring break. Since it was spring break, we wanted to sort of stay away from the standard drunk college student destinations. We had [...]