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 …                     […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]