To kick off the summer of 2024, I jumped in the car with my parents for my first ever, legitimate road trip. I was intent on driving from Southern California up to Fort Rock, Oregon where my great grandparents, George and Myrtle Foltz, had homesteaded, and then taking the original Highway 1 all the way back down the Pacific Coast, meandering through all the majestic redwoods. The excursion was many years in the making, and so, too, is this travelogue documenting every stop! My parents had both previously visited Fort Rock, but I needed to see it for myself after all the research I had done on the property. Plus, after watching the BBC series Detectorists and countless episodes of The Curse of Oak Island , I was convinced that waving a metal detector over the property would unlock further clues to my family's presence there. I plotted out a 10-day trip, and off we went! DAY 1 My NorCal friends were more than familiar with making a stop at Bravoland in Kettleman City, CA off the 5 ...