Public transportation
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Marina Drive to the Roundhouse Cafe
It’s not very far from Fort Point to the Golden Gate Bridge Welcoming Center, but if you’re on foot or riding a bike, you must be prepared for a climb! I took these steps up the side of the hill, and it’s a very good workout. Although I paused about halfway up, it wasn’t to catch my breath — I […]
The Adventure Continues… Shasta Dam
In this adventure, Huell and Luis get a behind the scenes look at this engineering marvel. Miles of tunnels and millions of gallons of water make for an exciting day, but there is another aspect to the Shasta Dam – the human element. It is the people who built the dam, the people that poured concrete 24 hours a day […]
Single father
We don’t normally find buskers in the parking lot of our local Trader Joe’s. I don’t know if he was truly a single father , but he could definitely play that accordian!
Smoky skies
I guess I’m very lucky I finally made it to Fort Point last weekend. Although there was plenty of smoke in the air and we should have probably been wearing filtering masks, the conditions are even worse right now — to the point that many tourist spots have been closed until further notice. Fort Point Closed Through Sunday, November 18 […]
Waiting
The Adventure Continues… Paradise
I chose this episode of California’s Gold in honor of the people of Paradise and Magalia, towns which have been devastated by a fast-moving wildfire that started near Camp Creek Road last Thursday. The town of Paradise is said to be 80% destroyed, and many people lost their lives in the first few chaotic hours of evacuation. I wanted to […]
Golden Gate garden
Last Friday, after spending about an hour wandering from the top to the bottom of Fort Point, I was happily surprised to discover all kinds of colorful flowers near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center. Even though I can’t identify them, they were just what I needed to see on this day when the sun was obscured not by […]
The Adventure Continues… Tales from the Golden Empire
The blog archive has no “blurb” to go along with this week’s episode of California’s Gold, so I really had no idea what to expect when I started watching it. I’ll admit I know very little about Kern County and have only passed through on my way to and from Los Angeles — but I guess I should have known […]