This was our first quick visit to Frank Raines OHV area. We’d been out past the park on Del Puerto Canyon Road a few times in the past, but this was my first time inside to look around. I found a geocache (FTF!) and we poked around some of the trails, but there was a […]

A short trip and an equally short gallery of photos. Love those mountain drives…

Since we had time to kill before a BBQ party at his place, my friend Andy and I made a trip into the Santa Cruz mountains for three hours on Independence Day morning. We were pleasantly surprised by the fun dirt trails we found, as there are few that are open to the public in […]

I’d been looking forward to driving Old Coast Road since I’d picked up a copy of California Coastal Byways (book review here). It made for a fun day trip, but with a lot of driving to get there and back from San Jose. This was an early outing for Andy’s newly upgraded Land Rover Discovery […]