One of California’s lesser-known lighthouses sits on a tiny islet on Battery Point, just south of Crescent City. To get there, you have to wait for low tide. At high tide, the islet is surrounded by water. We’re almost always in the Crescent City/Eureka area on Labor Day weekend and this place has been on […]
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Today I’d like to share some photos I shot over the weekend. To get these shots, I bought a $500 bird blind, sat in it all day, and shot three million photos. Hahaha just kidding. I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and shot them all in about five minutes with my superzoom camera. Cheating. […]
A few years ago, I read a story about this guy who was unwinding at home one evening when a sinkhole suddenly opened up under his living room and swallowed up half his house. And him. Ever since then, I have had an irrational fear of sinkholes. The house in the story was probably built […]
Unless a bag of money falls on my head, I’m probably never going to see the Valley of the Kings. So I’ll just tell myself it’s overrated, even though it’s obviously not. Meanwhile, if you are feeling the same way and are a resident of Northern California, you can simulate the experience of visiting Egypt. […]
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 […]
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 […]
