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This week, Road Trips with Tom heads north across two borders to Quebec. Two borders? The first is the U.S.-Canadian border. The second border is an abrupt culture and language change, similar to what you might experience traveling from California into Mexico. Quebec may officially be part of Canada, but you’d hardly know it. It’s really […]
This article is different from our regular weekly posts, which highlight destinations that road trippers might want to visit. It’s an essay addressing a serious issue: Too many visitors in our national park system. Just about everyone loves our national parks. Unfortunately, we may be loving them to death. This is a longer post than […]
This week, Road Trips with Tom is in Oregon to visit beautiful Crater Lake National Park. This blog post was originally scheduled to appear a few weeks ago, but it was postponed because a wildfire had closed the park’s busiest road and forced the evaluation of the rim village. In this post, you’ll find just […]
This week Road Trips with Tom heads to California’s capital city to visit Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Old Sacramento is wedged into a 296-acre site between Interstate 5 and the Sacramento River. At first glance, you might conclude it’s just another tourist trap with a historic theme. After all, what meets your eye are dozens of old […]
This week, Road Trips with Tom visits California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park. Mt. Lassen is the southernmost end of the Cascade Range – a chain of volcanoes extending 700 miles into British Columbia. Until Mt. St. Helens literally blew its top in 1980, Mt. Lassen was the last Cascade volcano to erupt. That was in […]
Welcome to the 2016 Road Trips with Tom fall foliage guide. This post is designed as a planning aide for road-trippers who want to take a fall foliage adventure this year. I’m not going to do the planning for you, but I’ll guide you to some helpful tools. Why start planning now? Three reasons: It’s […]
This week Road Trips with Tom visits northern California’s iconic mountain – Mt. Shasta. It’s a relatively short article on a tall mountain. I’d originally intended to focus this week’s post on Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon, but a wildfire near Crater Lake has caused road closures and smoky air. It’s still burning […]