I was charmed by this VW bug when I spotted it in Newport Beach, California, a few years ago. It’s definitely not Herbie and frankly has more character than that VW bug. How can you not like a car constructed to mimic Shamu, the famous…
My favorite stretch of lonely road in the world is the 200 miles of Highway 395 south from Topaz Lake, where it enters California from Nevada, where these pictures were taken, south through Bridgeport and the turnoff to Bodie , past Mono…
“Going to the river” is a thing both locals and visitors to Gold Country seem to do a lot. My son, having lived here for a time, often heads straight up Highway 49 to the South Fork as soon as he gets to town, but I’ve…
Hydraulic mining in action. Note the size of the miner, lower left. It’s hard to believe one could find a place that’s 45 minutes drive up a mountain on a very bad road by accident, but that’s how it…
“Cannery Row…is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” — John Steinbeck, from his novel ‘ Cannery Row’ Wow! With a beautifully written introduction like that,…
Officially called the Pigeon Point Light Station, it’s been my sentinel, standing at the edge of my personal territory, telling me I’m nearing, or leaving, my family on the coastside of the Bay Area, south of San Francisco. I…
Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not really a believer in “things happen for a reason”, more a believer in “things happen”. But I will say I was lucky, one day last month, to be waiting at a stop sign…
On the outskirts of Pescadero, at the end of North Street, where it converges with Pescadero Creek Road and the back way to La Honda, is Harley Farms Goat Dairy. My granddaughters know the place because it’s a favorite destination…
I was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area, mostly in Redwood City on the Peninsula, 25 miles south of the City, on the east side of the mountains that separate the bay from the ocean. During my teens, on warm weekends and hot…
This puzzle had a rather short shelf life. Congratulations to Lynn Millar who quickly recognized the fountain in front of the historic Wawona hotel in Yosemite National Park. You can see the relationship of the fountain to the Wawona in…
I was charmed by this VW bug when I spotted it in Newport Beach, California, a few years ago. It’s definitely not Herbie and frankly has more character than that VW bug. How can you not like a car constructed to mimic Shamu, the famous…
My favorite stretch of lonely road in the world is the 200 miles of Highway 395 south from Topaz Lake, where it enters California from Nevada, where these pictures were taken, south through Bridgeport and the turnoff to Bodie , past Mono…
“Going to the river” is a thing both locals and visitors to Gold Country seem to do a lot. My son, having lived here for a time, often heads straight up Highway 49 to the South Fork as soon as he gets to town, but I’ve…
Hydraulic mining in action. Note the size of the miner, lower left. It’s hard to believe one could find a place that’s 45 minutes drive up a mountain on a very bad road by accident, but that’s how it…
“Cannery Row…is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” — John Steinbeck, from his novel ‘ Cannery Row’ Wow! With a beautifully written introduction like that,…
Officially called the Pigeon Point Light Station, it’s been my sentinel, standing at the edge of my personal territory, telling me I’m nearing, or leaving, my family on the coastside of the Bay Area, south of San Francisco. I…
Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not really a believer in “things happen for a reason”, more a believer in “things happen”. But I will say I was lucky, one day last month, to be waiting at a stop sign…
On the outskirts of Pescadero, at the end of North Street, where it converges with Pescadero Creek Road and the back way to La Honda, is Harley Farms Goat Dairy. My granddaughters know the place because it’s a favorite destination…
I was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area, mostly in Redwood City on the Peninsula, 25 miles south of the City, on the east side of the mountains that separate the bay from the ocean. During my teens, on warm weekends and hot…
This puzzle had a rather short shelf life. Congratulations to Lynn Millar who quickly recognized the fountain in front of the historic Wawona hotel in Yosemite National Park. You can see the relationship of the fountain to the Wawona in…
