Road Trips, Parks and Places to See, Making a Living Remotely, Van/RV Life, and How Wealth is Built – and Lost
By Rachel Puryear You’ve probably heard of Stonehenge in the English countryside – but have you also heard of the Bay Area’s “Stonehenge by the Bay”? Bedwell Bayfront Park features the Great Spirit Path, also known as Stonehenge by the Bay, where you can get a great hike with amazing views, while also seeing stone…
Read more Bedwell Bayfront Park’s Great Spirit Path in Menlo Park, California
By Rachel Puryear In the world’s tropical regions, year-round heat and abundant rainfall makes for many lush, gorgeous tropical rainforests teeming with diverse, amazing life forms. These pictures will help showcase that natural beauty – but you’ll have to visit there yourself in order to also experience the awesome sounds, smells, and humidity of these…
By Rachel Puryear California’s Sonoma County offers a famously diverse array of beautiful landscapes. Within one set of county lines, you can visit beaches, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, and more. The area also offers plenty of wonderful parks to explore. One lovely such mountainous park is Taylor Mountain. If you’re ever in the area, be…
Read more Taylor Mountain Regional Park in Santa Rosa, California
By Rachel Puryear In the chilly depths of Winter, there is a quiet beauty – snow blankets much of the world, and wraps many forests in an icy splendor. Thank you, dear readers, for reading, following, and sharing. Here’s to awesome Winter wonderlands. If you enjoyed this post, please “like” and subscribe, if you have…
By Rachel Puryear About fifteen minutes south of San Francisco is the small coastal town of Pacifica, California. The name comes from the Spanish word for “peaceful”, and the town does live up to that name. It’s a quiet, peaceful, unpretentious town with a relaxed vibe. Even though it’s right near several busy and crowded…
By Rachel Puryear Among the great many horrors and looming threats to democracy unfolding in the USA these days, are painful cuts to funding many programs and entities beneficial to the public, including our treasured and amazing national parks. If you love these parks, you may be wondering how you can help them, and desire…
Read more Ways to Support National Parks (Amid Funding Cuts)
By Rachel Puryear Urban parks make for very special places within a city, whereby residents can get out and enjoy nature, right in (or near) their own neighborhoods. San Mateo, a small city about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose, boasts its own big urban park. There’s lots to do here for the whole…
By Rachel Puryear Hi folks, your Free Range Life host has some big personal life events going on. Accordingly, I am unable to put forth the usual kind of content for a short while. However, here are some pictures of road trippers with their pets along for the ride for you to enjoy, and hopefully…
By Rachel Puryear San Francisco, California, the City by the Bay, is a major city known for many things – arts and sciences, diversity, great food, culture and progressive attitudes, and it also features lots of stunning natural beauty. Even within this major urban city, there are plenty of places to enjoy the great outdoors,…
By Rachel Puryear As you’ve driven along highways, you’ve probably noticed that each highway is known by a unique number – you can cruise I-5 near the West Coast between the Mexican and Canadian borders, ride I-80 from the San Francisco Bay Area to New Jersey, drive I-95 between northern Maine and southern Florida, and…
Free Range Life 