Smoked out! My hiking and stargazing ambitions were thwarted. That’s OK, time with the parents is always the main thing – and I got to...

A very nice father-daughter visit.  We snow-shoed, ate, did a bunch of NYT crosswords in record time, ate, hiked, admired the full moon ,...

We hiked behind the house at dawn , then took refuge from the wildfire smoke and daytime heat. Drove with Dad to his favorite day-hiking...