California Dreaming: Northern California
Since we have traveled to so many spots in our great state, we are currently in the process of categorizing them in Southern and Northern California. All of our posts can currently be visited at the regular California Dreaming tab. We arbitrarily chose Fresno as the dividing line between So Cal and No Cal.
March 9, 2022
“The Pride Of The Pacific” Fort Point National Historic Site – San Francisco Visited: February 2022 So you say you didn’t know there was a fortress constructed in the mid-19th century to help defend San Francisco against hostile warships? Well, neither did we until our recent getaway to The City […]
October 5, 2021
A Colorful Step Back Into HistoryFiloli Historic House & Garden • Woodside Visited: May 2021 Following our Oregon/Northern California trip, Tracy and I decided to make one last stop at a gorgeous spot she had been yearning to visit when the flowers bloomed in spring. Located about 25 miles south […]
November 30, 2020
Our Annus Horibilis Mini-Vacation (Part Two) Mendocino To Eureka: Beaches, Redwoods & Mansions Day Two: Don’t Step On The Glass, Motorcycle Down, Oh … DEER!, Watch Out For That Tree, Confusion Reigns, What Info?, Land Of The Giants, Picnicking With A Mass Murderer?, Another Aztec Defeat, Signs Signs Everywhere Are […]
November 12, 2020
Our Annus Horibilis* Mini-Vacation Northern California Coast Road Trip & A Winery For The Ages *In the year Tracy, borrowing a phrase from Queen Elizabeth, calls “Annus horribilis,” we made the decision to join our friends and longtime traveling partners Kim and Mary for a four-day vacation from Covid and […]
June 19, 2019
Three Countries In Three Hours Golden Gate Park – San Francisco June 2019 While visiting San Francisco, my buddy Kim said, “How’d you like to visit three countries in the next few hours?” Not having brought my passport, I didn’t think it would be possible, but Kim told me not […]
May 28, 2019
Bay Area Treasure Grace Cathedral – San Francisco Visited: May 2019 During the April 2019 fire at Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, I learned that San Francisco and Paris are Sister Cities, and that Grace Cathedral was constructed in Notre-Dame’s same French-Gothic style. What I didn’t know was that a section […]
September 14, 2018
Modern Times San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) – San Francisco Visited: August 2018 While not exactly connoisseurs of Modern Art, Kim and I were offered tickets to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from his daughter, who also happens to be a member and big fan […]
March 8, 2018
I Am Woman! Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park – Richmond Visited: February 2018 On a drive from Southern California to Bodega Bay, our route took us over the San Rafael Bridge. We diverted a few exits short of the bridge to check out a museum I had […]
February 28, 2018
Beware The Pear! Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park/Vallejo’s Petaluma Adobe – Petaluma Like so many visits to our friends Kim and Mary in Bodega Bay, the four of us used the weekend to hike along the beautiful Sonoma Coast … […]
June 28, 2016
The Wonderful World of (Walt) Disney Walt Disney Family Museum – San Francisco June 2016 If Walt Disney wasn’t the most innovative and creative person on the planet in the 20th century, he’s certainly close. So when Kim and Mary told us about the Walt Disney Family Museum at the […]
June 2, 2016
“The air is wine…I have everything to make me glad I am alive.” Jack London State Historic Park – Glen Ellen Visited: May 2016 Time for a little Northern California love! In all the times we have traveled in and around the Sonoma County area, there was one place I […]
July 4, 2013
Light At The Bottom Of The Stairs Point Reyes Lighthouse – Point Reyes Station July 2013 The odds of a sunny day at Point Reyes Lighthouse along with me climbing up and down 616 stairs without having to use a defibrillator are just about nil. Yet, on the 4th of […]
May 21, 2012
Air. Sea. Space. California Academy of Sciences – San Francisco May 2012 This was going to be the day that Mary, Kim, Tracy and I were to venture from Bodega Bay into “The City” (also known as San Francisco) to see the Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces From the Musée D’Orsay […]
May 19, 2012
“I Can See Russia From My Car” Fort Ross and The Sonoma Coast MAY 2012 Starting in the 1740s, frontiersmen from Russia left the Siberian wilderness to look for fur-bearing marine mammals to the east. They first formed a colony in Kodiak, which today is Alaska. The organization was known […]