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Book Review: Day Trips, Roaming the Backroads of Northern California
Number of Comments » 1(I’m finally getting back to adding to my reviews of books on Northern California’s backroads and off-roads. The next one may have to wait until after the holidays though.) By Peter Browning. 198 pages, about 6 x 8 3/4”. This is often one of my “go-to” books when I’m looking for someplace to drive to […]
Point Bonita
Number of Comments » 1Quick post…. A few pics from our visit to Point Bonita two weeks ago are up. We were lucky and had wonderfully good, warm weather. It was a little windy, but not bad at all, and definitely nothing you could complain about for mid-November on the Bay. It’s a wonderful area, and we got to […]
Tunnels, Caves, Trails and Caches
Number of Comments » 0On Sunday, August 10th, I met up with Steve (Workerofwood) and Dave (Fizzymagic) for a day of targeted geocaching. We’d identified several geocaches in the Santa Cruz area that looked to be much more fun than the average, generic geocache – to us, anyway. We’d stop for some of the normal, everyday caches when one […]
N37° 25.706′ W121° 58.810′
Number of Comments » 0“Here, kitty kitty….” Yesterday, this little fellow cut across the trail just ahead of us while on a family walk in Alviso. We hit the brakes and gave him all the room he wanted. While he put his tail up in warning, happily that was as far as he took it. This was only about […]