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Category: Stories

Backpacking Dad’s Southwest Road Trip (Part 1): The Calico Ghost Town

Posted on 04/18/201304/22/2013 by Backpacking Dad

This is Part 1 in a series of stories (and tips) from our most recent road trip. Read Part 2, on Las Vegas, here, and Part 3, on the road to Flagstaff, here. We began our Spring Break Road Trip Extravaganza late on a Friday afternoon. The first leg of our trip was through California’s…

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Rez Stories: Grandfather’s Arrest

Posted on 04/02/201304/02/2013 by Backpacking Dad

I prefer stories over theories. Stories help you experience and remember; theories help you explain and predict. Neither endeavour is flawless. Stories change over time, and in some ways, this is the point of stories, since we only need to remember what is important to us, and that changes over time too. Theories change over…

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Erin and Adrian Go to the Bay Area Discovery Museum

Posted on 02/18/201302/18/2013 by Backpacking Dad

Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco sits Fort Baker. Fort Baker is an old army installation, and future site of the Starfleet Academy, but in the interim some of the old buildings have been put to other uses. One of those uses is a children’s museum, the Bay Area Discovery Museum. We…

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