Yesterday, my neighbor told me there’s a rampaging mountain lion in our area. Well, not rampaging exactly, just causing some trouble for a few of the neighbors, but he likes us to be cautious. Mountain lions aren’t really a danger to people, especially when there are so many deer around. Because they do occasionally take […]
Category: California
On our way to the coast on Friday we passed through Lake County and drove around the eastern shore of Clear Lake. I do want to say up front that I managed to drive all the way through the town of Nice without making even one stupid joke about the very Nice Motel or the […]
If you’ve ever driven through the Auburn State Recreation Area, which is really all you can do because there’s never anywhere to park, you’ve probably noticed a super scary and almost precarious-looking bridge looming over the landscape. That’s Foresthill Bridge, and it’s the tallest structure of its kind in the state of California, much taller, […]
Over the weekend, I took my kids down to the waterfront at Old Town Sacramento. And it wasn’t to watch the boats or for a river cruise or anything, it was to see the sea lions. Wait, what? Sea lions in Sacramento? Yeah, it’s kind of weird. Sacramento is like 100 miles inland, and if […]
I learned two things this weekend: One: Mountain biking is mostly just about saying to yourself, “I can’t believe I didn’t wipe out just then.” Two: You can’t trust the trail reviews on mountain biking sites. Because no serious mountain biker would ever use words like “challenging,” “narrow,” “dangerous in places,” or “sheer drop-off” when […]
