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A mile or two from the first of the Natural Bridges, is the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse and Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. It’s here that you’ll find surfers leaping off the cliffs and vying for prime spots on each wave (though in reality, I think they can simply slide into the water).
The water is rough and some cliffs...
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It wasn’t the nicest of days, which meant it was easy to find parking and few people on the beach. In the distance I could see rain blowing in… perhaps this is normal in Santa Cruz… but it was beautiful and strangely captivating.
There’s more to Santa Cruz than a gaudy, unpleasant, carnival-like...
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Mission San Diego de Alcalá was the first Mission built in 1769; and, Mission Carmel came second in 1770… presumably aligned with the founding of the Monterey Presidio and discovery of the San Francisco Bay in that same year.
The original Mission was close to the Presidio but almost immediately, Junípero Serra petitioned...
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We had no plans to go to Carmel. In fact, we whittled down a long list of day trip destinations to Santa Cruz and San Francisco and threw the two back and forth like a beach-ball until the question-mark hanging over us became so large that we couldn’t stand it any more. And, as we sat in a San Jose Patxi’s devouring...
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Donato is a rather odd little restaurant on the main strip of Redwood City. It’s one of those places that looks expensive, feels expensive, is expensive, but is missing something that you can never quite put your finger on.
It’s listed as a Michelin recommended destination, but for me it was a comedy of errors.
The first...
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“Climate Best By Government Test”
This little ditty of a saying is easily viewable from the Caltrain on a large Redwood City sign. I have to admit, it haunted me for almost a month. What the hell does it mean? What is a government test? Who determines what makes the best climate? And, it’s a phrase that keeps...
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On the Stanford side of the tracks in Palo Alto… at the junction of El Camino and Embarcadero Road, there’s a grouping of little restaurants that are gluten free / sustainable / vegan hot spots. Calafia is one of these restaurants. It has all the hallmarks of a foodie paradise: delicious, pretty food… an affordable...
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The Dish is two things. For runners, it’s a 3.5 mile (roughly 5.6km) run through quiet and amidst beautiful rolling hills. The run would be pretty easy if not for the hills. No wheels are allowed in the park — you have to make your way using good ‘ole fashioned people power.
For science geeks, these hills are home...
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