Most words tend to do that depending on how you use them and where they are located
I live in Puerto Rico so i should know this! Martinez convinced Clemente to manage Puerto Rico's amateur baseball team .<span />
This is a compound sentence, because there are two independent clauses here: 1. On our vacation we are flying to California + and + 2. then we will drive up the coastline.
We always drove around the cabin!
"every winter" points to the past, but also it's a habitual activity in the past, which is also completed in the past- so we need simple past.