A week ago I took part in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge themed Crawling or Flying; so when I noticed that this episode of California’s Gold had to do with things that crawl, I couldn’t resist sharing it! Join Huell and encounter the endangered kangaroo rat at Carrizo Plain Natural Area, considered the best example of the fragile ecosystem in the San […]
June 1978 — We spent a couple of days in the area around Leavenworth, Washington — this was where my mom spent the happiest part of her childhood. This small town is surrounded by towering mountains with alpine forests, close to Lake Wenatchee and the rushing Wenatchee River (Wenatchee means “boiling water”); it’s not surprising she still loves this place. After […]
Trees of Mystery was absolutely one of my family’s favorite attractions when I was growing up, and even before I was born — see my previous posts, Memory Monday, Week 9 and Memory Monday, Week 10. It’s been decades now since I last visited the place, and it’s evolved and only gotten better (I’m seriously craving a ride on the […]
In the summer of 1978, I took a road trip with my parents from Sacramento to British Columbia, Canada. We passed through Oregon and Washington State, making a few stops along the way to see the sites. Sadly, back then I wasn’t much into photography — but I made up for that shortsightedness (slightly) by taking copious notes and keeping […]
This episode is a “California’s Gold Classic,” and it’s one I’ve enjoyed quite a few times already. Even so, in re-watching it today I learned that the Bidwell Bar Bridge, constructed in 1856, was the first suspension bridge built west of the Mississippi River! It’s a great reminder that even though I live quite near the historic gold country there’s […]
Thanks again to everybody for sharing these memories with me. Next week, we’re off on a 1978 road trip to British Columbia via Oregon and Washington State. See you then!
If you’ve ever dreamed of living in a small town in the middle of a breathtaking landscape, you’ll enjoy Huell’s visit to Downieville, where the houses have no addresses and there are no traffic signals. Downieville was named after William Downie, a Scotsman who mined for gold in the area in 1849. And very little has changed in this tiny town, […]
Join Huell and hike to the world’s tallest tree in Redwood National Park with a group of fifth graders from a nearby school; admire fields ablaze with golden color of California’s official state flower, the Golden Poppy, at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve in Lancaster; and climb to the top of magnificent Morro Rock for a beautiful view of […]
Sitting just north of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach is the famous Cliff House Restaurant. It has a complicated and fascinating history and is currently on its fifth incarnation. The first Cliff House was built in 1853 by one of California’s more colorful Gold Rush characters, Sam Brannan. In the 1956 photo below, you can just see the top and rear of […]