California coast

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

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what a pleasure it was while looking (of course) for something else to run into this wonderful 1911 piece of travel writing.  CALIFORNIA COAST TRAILS: A Horseback Ride from Mexico to Oregon by J. Smeaton Chase, made available online by the editors of The Double Cone Register. 

Comments

[gracegiver]

That is very cool. Kudos to the team that put that together. The format is perfect and easy on the eyes. I wish I were a speed reader, though.

Are you much of a fan of Jack London? Valley of the Moon was such a enticing read for this newcomer to California. I tried to find Jack London park one day, on one of my GTO's and much to my demise, failed. I had a time limitation that day and the maps that were provided never led me to an entrance. I loved my time in Sonoma, but really regret not visiting this very personal place.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

for all the years that I spent living in and traipsing throughout southern California, most of my knowledge drops off pretty sharply N of, say, Paso Robles or Bakersfield.  other than a few overnight trips to the Bay Area and a couple of months at Stanford, I've never spent any significant amount of time there and as a result the upper 2/3 of the state is largely unknown to me (except for going up the Sacramento river delta on the railroad or Interstate 80, I've never been more than 10 miles N of the Golden Gate; many years ago I did ride Amtrak from Oakland to Portland but the train was running behind schedule and sunrise wasn't until well after Dunsmuir, closer to Klamath Falls). 

I'd always promised myself that some day I would live in that part of the world and get to know it.  as a goal it remains in the indeterminate future.