Mystery Spot Santa Cruz

Christmas was spent with friends in Menlo Park surrounded by Laura's 'angel' paintings. Great wine tasting sessions around Los Gatos on a very wet day were followed by a very competitive session of Monopoly (New York version).

Over 30% of the US welfare recipients live in California, which is quite evident is parts of San Francisco. We …

Michael and Sarah decided to pull Ethan from school today so we could have a family outing and also we had more time out if we didn't have to rush home for school bells. After the mandatory Starbucks stop we were on the road again to Santa Cruz. We couldn’t resist going to the famous 'Mystery Spot’ we had checked out their website and …

On my birthday Winny took us for a day trip to the Santa Cruz hills, which was a pleasant drive from Fremont into beautiful green hills with giant Redwood trees close to the coast.

We stopped off for some entertainment at the famous mystery spot where we were in for some mysterious events. Magnetic fields, underground minerals or maybe …

... west to the coast and to Santa Cruz.  On the way to Santa Cruz we stopped off at the strangest little place called 'The Mystery Spot’.  The sort of thing you might see on a TV show, The Mystery Spot is an old-fashioned tourist- trappy ...

... a golf club :-) And we walked around Carmel-by-the-Sea, after all it's named after Sean's mam ;-) Back in Santa Cruz we went to the Mystery Spot where gravity doesn't seem to work. We decided that a lot can be explained by optical illusions but some ...

... 's really just a bunch of optical illusions.  But I happen to love optical illusion. :D The Mystery Spot is a location in the hills above Santa Cruz that is theoretically one of the "anomaly" places, where something like gravity or ...

This weekend, we decided to head to Santa Cruz. Started off early from Folsom and headed straight to Mystery Spot. The drive was around 2-3 hours. Had a quick tour and went to Mission Park. Next up was Lunch at Santa Cruz Wharf. Good view of the cliffs ...

... seeing little bits of the country... On Friday after packing for the 15th time we decided to see if we could find the Mystery Spot, a tourist trap described as kitsch on the hills outside Santa Cruz said to have some kind of special gravity force.  ...

... to rush home for school bells. After the mandatory Starbucks stop we were on the road again to Santa Cruz. We couldn’t resist going to the famous 'Mystery Spot’ we had checked out their website and it all looked a bit freaky. Basically they ...

... or maybe even aliens are responsible for the weird happenings in the wooden cabin built at the mystery spot. After this we drove to Santa Cruz beach where we built sandcastles with Andrea, avoided the food-grabbing seagulls and walked around the ...