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My mother always used to say, if you really want something done, ask a busy person. Well, that reminds me of another maxim: if you want to find people to travel, ask someone who already travels a lot. Somehow, they’ll break down, and against all scheduling logic, will probably be […]
Railroad people have their own vernacular, and a unique set of acronyms that are shared between them. One is Federal Railway Administration, FRA, the new federal agency that is taking care of spending the $8 billion in funds that’s been allocated by the government. The other is ‘service area’ or, […]
Have you ever had a book that kept you reading, late, late late into the night? That was so hard to put down, you risked being super tired in the morning because you had to find out what happens next? I’ve been blessed with such a book, that came to […]
Mendocino has two most excellent events coming up that are worth checking out if you are traveling or live nearby in California. June 4-6 is the Mendocino Film Festival, and their music festival July 10-24 “ón the edge of the world.” My friend Bruce who is a 10-year Mendocino resident, […]
On my last night in Northern California, I stayed in the town of Ukiah, population 14,000. I met a man there who told me he was a retired professional rock and roll guitarist. With that introduction, Hal Wagonet shared what people have been talking about over coffee during the past […]
RD Beacon is known far and wide. When I asked my hosts for my usual request for ‘interesting local people’ with whom I could meet, this name came up and he definitely is an unusual character. RD is the laid back proprietor of RD Beacon Light Bar, perched on the […]
Cherie Soria in person is all the advertising and PR she’ll ever need. Meeting this slender, dynamic owner of four successful businesses and a mini-empire based on raw food, it’s clear that she’s been practicing and honing the science and has become an expert. She looks all of 45 and […]
What a long and twisty road separates this beautiful place from the rest of the world. Maybe that’s why just 1100 people have chosen to live in the artist’s colony of Mendocino. That plus the fact that you can’t have double pane windows, skylights or even solar panels. It’s all […]
I bought coffee in the small town of Boonville, on the Northern California coast. A friendly guy asked me where I was going as he passed me some milk. “Fort Bragg,” I told him. “Is it really another hour?” I had been driving since 10:30, and it was just past […]
For centuries, the Miwok Indians in Northern California used a series of holes in a giant black rock to grind acorns. Right near the 50-foot long slab of rock stands two towering Valley Oak Trees, the source of the hundreds of thousands of acorns which would be ground up, rinsed […]
