I have some very fond memories of Alameda, California, since we made frequent visits between 1986 and 2000 — especially around Thanksgiving and Christmas — back when the Big Guy’s parents lived on nearby Bay Farm Island. I also recall scrambling around on the Alameda rock wall at Encinal Beach a few times while the Big Guy would do some […]
I’m posting this a day late, but it’s such a great episode I couldn’t wait to share it. California State Parks come in so many different sizes and shapes and with such diverse back stories. In this episode from 2008, Huell visited two up-and-coming parks in Northern California’s Bay Area that have since been opened to the public. At the […]
A couple of weeks ago I featured an episode focusing on the city of Richmond, which sits on the eastern shore of the San Francisco/San Pablo Bay. This episode of Golden Parks examines a portion of the western shore, just across the bay in San Rafael. Until seeing this segment, I had never heard of China Camp State Park and […]
These days when we head off to spend Christmas with the Big Guy’s family, it means a 3-hour airplane ride to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I do enjoy those trips, but sometimes I miss the days when his folks were living on Bay Farm Island in Alameda, only an hour or so away from our house via the freeway. We’d […]
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the freeway sign pointing towards Mare Island was yet another of the familiar signs I saw along the road to San Francisco’s Bay Area, but I never really thought about what sort of place it was or what went on there until much later. In this episode of California’s Gold Huell tours the naval shipyard […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of August 30, 2017. This week, share with us the structure of something typically overlooked. One of my childhood memories involves driving to the Bay Area to visit relatives; to get there and back we crossed over the Carquinez Strait near Vallejo via a pair of matching cantilever bridges, one for […]