We drove out to visit the house I lived in when I graduated from high school. From there, we went out to Point Reyes National Seashore. I had been there once when I lived in California. I don’t think my family did anything that time except drive out there as a day trip. This time …
Daily Archives: September 7, 2006
Aug 31 – Panaca Jane
We saw several guys dressed similarly at breakfast in the lobby of our motel in Winnemucca, Nevada, wearing T-shirts with a skull-and-crossbones logo with tommy guns for the crossbones, and the words “Panaca Jane”. When we got home I tracked down Adventures of Panaca Jane with Google and found that the polite young man who …
Aug. 26, Sausalito
Two towns south of Mill Valley, if you count Marin City which I do, is Sausalito. It’s partly an expensive residential community and partly a tourist place, the first stop off the Golden Gate bridge. The hills rise up off San Francisco Bay, with houses clinging to them along roads you couldn’t have in New …
Aug 26, tour of Tamalpais High
Our motel in Mill Valley was on the service road (but they call it something else in California, I forget right now) along highway 101. There was no view out the front of the motel except cars and trucks speeding past, towards or from the Golden Gate Bridge, but our room was in the back …
Aug 25, Livermore to Marin
We stayed overnight at Hank and Ernie’s house in Livermore. Hank cooked omelets for everyone for breakfast. He makes them thin, maybe just one egg each, in a big pan with lots of filling. I need to modify my omelet technique, because that works better than what I’ve done. They took us for a walk …