Conditions Change

BEWARE THE ACCURACY OF ALL WALKS. Conditions Change Hi All, Thank you for your support. Your visits. And more. I have downgraded the site visually, but it’s still there for a resource. A year ago April, we moved to Salem, Oregon. It suits our love of nature and culture. After two knee replacement surgeries and

Year End in Review Part I

Since I never got to sharing many of our walks and probably won’t get around to it now – I thought, I could show you my best pictures. You can find more trail details on my site or on the famous Google. In February, we walked to the north end of the trail along the

Season’s Greetings

I wish to all of you the best of the season and good cheer in the new year. Best intentions have not meant I actually posted all our walks in Sonoma County, Marin County, Morro Bay, East Bay and a fine trip to Nevada and southwest Utah. But hey they were great. You would have

Not Walking

Some of you may have wondered where have I been. Certainly not on my blog. Apparently when I had my knee replaced last July, the doctor also removed my interest in writing. With little walking there wasn’t much to write about. The recovery was slow. I had too much pain. But we were going places

Looking for Little Free Libraries

We were in Rogue River, Oregon (a small town between Medford and Grants Pass) on Memorial Day weekend. This little Free Library and home were well decorated. Do you have a little free library near you? The following was originally,  posted in November 2015 In my travels and in walking around town, I have found

Need a Sunny Movie?

If your days are full of rain, maybe you could use a “Sunny” movie. Any surfing movie or a National Lampoon Vacation movie could work. I thought I had watched all surfer movies – fiction and non-fiction, but SurferToday has a list with movies I haven’t seen. Some of them do look like the darker

Sunday’s Revisit: Introduction to Walking

Today marks my 6th anniversary with Walking in Sonoma County… mostly. After 500 posts, I can say I still feel the same way about walking and I’m happy to share. Hope you find the blog useful to finding your place in nature. I will continue to find new trails, revisit old ones and have fun with

Now for Something Completely Different

The older I get the less I think I know. Perhaps because the problems and therefore the solutions are more complicated than I can reason out. But it doesn’t stop me from having opinions and sometimes I’m compelled to share them. In the early 1970s, I read some of Anaïs Nin’s diaries. I was confounded that she never

Walking the Parks à la Google

The Press Democrat recently announced the Sonoma County Regional Parks launch of a “street view” of 15 of parks. So far I have tried Sonoma Valley Regional – I found it stopped and I wouldn’t go farther, I needed to relaunch or choose a new starting point. I also tried Pinnacles Gulch (Bodega Bay) since

Weekend Fun: Rocky & Dracula

This was not a good week personally, so here’s my dark side. And it is almost Halloween, where we get in touch with our dark side. Catch a couple of local productions. Maybe it’s time I actually see the Rocky Horror Show, because it’s been like ‘ yeah I saw it in Berkeley in 1973’