Mayacama Mountaintop Retreat / Clair de Lune Cottage
Travel Blogs from Santa Rosa
River deep , mountain high
... to come gets him off the hook.
It’s a ying and yang world of course and the trip's most amazing scenery yet sees our nights spent in the worst accommodation. We vent our spleen on Trip Advisor and get on with gasping, again both OMG style and literally, as we crane our necks to see towering granite mountain faces of primeval splendor. Looking up at the 3000ft El Capitan we see about half way up some climbers on a ‘porta-ledge’ where they have apparently ...
Coast and river, the final official tour day
... Jenner, where the Russian River meets the Pacific Ocean. We stopped at a couple of beaches and of course I had to go in the ocean - but not for long. It is cold!
We decided to head east along the Russian River, where I learned to swim as a child. Mom loved to swim in the river and I have many happy memories of times there with her and my sister and brother. Houses along the river are mostly old and weathered, ...
Day 20: park, cake and where the hell is napa?
... Then she had another couple of bites and it was too much. Too creamy, too buttery, too sweet, too stuffing... she won't be eating cheesecake for a while.
Thinking that driving through the Golden Gate Park on our way out of this town, was a good option we got the car, but all we saw were walls and bushes. Crossed the Golden Gate Bridge following a car through a line where we weren't stopped to pay... probably ...
Wine, Music, Shops
... br>
We couldn't find a spot on the lawn because everyone took this seriously and showed up two hours before with tables, chairs etc and had their onw picnics. Finally we found a spot and sat on our jackets and began drinking and eating. Everyone looked like they were having a good time and while the music itself wasn't our cup of tea (country, americana, roots), the musicians were talented. We really treasured the time ...
Days 35-38: Crozier-Stephens Wedding Week
... great line-up: Colbie Caillat, the Bangles, Miranda Lambert, Heart, and of course my fave, Sarah McLachlan. The day was highlighted with great people watching, best of all the older, yellow-singlet guy who was dancing his heart out... oblivious to the hoardes of people behind him that started to catch on to his particular style of 'dancing’ – it was a flash mob at its finest! After the concert we made a quick stop to see my sis Lisa & Brian (and ...