Pacific Coast Highway Pumpkin Patches
Aside from being the salad basket of the US, and with cities as the the artichoke capital and the garlic capital, PCH highway is alive with pumpkins. It draws the…
The Birds
What a fool I am – here a block away from the mighty Pacific Ocean, and only rarely walking down to the beach to experience the daily sunset. The abundance…
T-Bird Show on the Santa Cruz Wharf
The best of summer as arrived in Santa Cruz. Kids are back in school and the weekend tourist invasion is tolerable (hint: run your errands early). The surf has been…
Café Zoetrope II
I approached Café Zoetrope from the financial district after hiking down from Coit Tower – mind you, I hiked up to the tower from my hotel at Fisherman’s Wharf first.…
Café Zoetrope
For more times than I can recall, I would walk down Columbus Avenue in San Francisco approaching the Trans America Building wanting to stop for lunch at Francis Coppola’s famed…
Local Santa Clara Cuisine
I needed some heat this weekend, knowing when Silicon Valley heads to the beach, there’s stress-free exploring of the Valley. Santa Clara is San Jose’s little elite sister, but home…
New Toy
Me, perfectly content to stay in on a wild & crazy tourist invasion of Santa Cruz – thinking I wish I had a toy like this when I was sixteen.…