Pizza is a food group. Wood-fired ovens are cathedrals that produce the most divine of offerings. We often make our own pizza dough, though the tossing of it still evades me. But… what to do when you need more instant gratification? Enter the Indian gift of naan. I have used both pita bread and naan…
This week in The Pearl – October 8, 2026
We started the week by getting jabbed, both flu and COVID. I don’t get anti-vaxers, we have been in a lot of groups of people around the world and vaccines have kept us from catching COVID, I know some who were vaccinated did catch it, nothing is 100%, but we always get our shots. With…
Thoughts from theTravelsketcher – Our national treasure
Many have correctly called our National Parks a national treasure, I could not agree more. We were in Lassen Volcanic National Park a couple of weeks ago – our parks are amazing. It is such a tragedy that funding has been cut for them, we need to defend our National Parks. Here are few photos…
This week in The Pearl – back home
We are back in The Pearl, we drove home Tuesday from Florence – it was such a peaceful and enjoyable trip. Last Friday we started the day with breakfast at The Blue Ox Cafe in the Redwood National Park. I was fancying pancakes, a once a year or so desire, and remembered that when we…
Thoughts from theTravelsketcher- How to sketch sea stacks
For the last week we have been driving along the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast, which is famous for sea stacks. As a sketcher they just call out to be sketched, so I have answered the call – check my upcoming Thursday blog for more of them. Without a bit of good technique the…
