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 …
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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 …
from Pocatello
We’re at my mom’s house in Pocatello, Idaho. I’m writing from her computer running an old Netscape under Windows 98, where the editing looks unfamiliar and clunky, and my style is definitely cramped! We flew out to San Francisco for my 45th high school reunion. We stayed overnight with my college roommate in Livermore. The …
Caning progress
I did a little more on the chair caning. I’ve started the first slow step of the process, really weaving cane through previous strands. It’s taking many times as long per hole as the earlier steps — I think six or ten times as long. I’m beginning to appreciate why getting chairs caned is expensive. …
Fishbones
As luck would have it, right between where we parked for the balloon festival and Railroad Park was an unpreposessing door in the Bates Mill Complex renovated part of the huge mill with a sign “Fishbones” over it. It looked like a restaurant.It was!. Now, that link is a press release, so you don’t have …
Balloon Festival – II
After we walked through the carnival area of the festival (close to the bridge back from Auburn) we thought we would look for something to eat and come back when the balloons were getting ready to take off. Oops! They were going to start getting set up in another fifteen minutes, so we went back …
Lewiston Balloon Festival – I
We were in LA, or really L/A, which in central Maine is Lewiston/Auburn, the twin cities of Androscoggin County, on Saturday for a balloon festival. Hot air balloons are like fireworks. You have to be there to appreciate the scale. But of course I have pictures. Lewiston is the second biggest city in Maine, with …
SWOAM
There was a meeting of the Small Woodlot Owners Association of Maine in Otisfield, the next town over. Off Powhatan road, near the Otisfield school. It sounded as though it was too close for people who are in charge of ten or eleven acres of Maine woodland not to check out. It turned out to …
Sweater progress
Here’s the state of Matt’s sweater as of Aug 11. By now I’ve done another inch of navy and a few rows of a simple fair isle band above that.