Thursday, September 30, 2010

BACK TO THE PAST: STATE ROUTE 128 – WINTERS TO NAPA VALLEY

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THE OTHER DAY, I found myself on the road to Napa to visit a hospitalized friend. Interstate 80 makes an efficient route just as Burger Kin...
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

THE OLD TIMER

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SOMEWHERE between here and the Owens Valley and home again, I lost a favored tool. I suspect I left it on the dresser at the Mt. Williamson...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

JOURNEY TO THE COMSTOCK -- HENNESS PASS ROAD

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CALIFORNIA’S FIRST RECESSION probably occurred in the 1860s. That’s when the labor force, seeking to line their pockets with gold scooped f...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

THE WILD KINGDOM -- US 395 AT MANZANAR

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THE LATE MARLON PERKINS, once director of the St Louis zoo, visited my next door neighbor a couple of times while I was growing up. Mr. Per...
Monday, September 20, 2010

BAR MATE -- EUREKA, CALIFORNIA

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“IF YOU’VE MET ONE PERSON with Alzheimer’s disease, you’ve met one person with Alzheimer’s disease.” The old man had moved from just aroun...
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

1000 WORDS ABOUT SEPTEMBER MORNINGS IN ELK, CALIFORNIA

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

REMAINING LOST: USAL ROAD TO THE LOST COAST (MENDOCINO COUNTY)

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ONE WOULD HAVE TO KNOW that Usal Road exists in order to be interested in taking it. There is no sign off California State Route 1; just a ...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

THE PILGRIMS OF WHITNEY PORTAL - WHITNEY PORTAL ROAD

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IN THE HIGHEST REACHES of the Sierra, in the region of Whitney Portal and Kearsarge Pass, the human inhabitants are comprised mainly of sine...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

A REQUEST OF TIME

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Please, Time: Pause. Stop, just for a moment or two. Moments, you know, you have plenty of. Allow your precious gift of self, Time. ...
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WHERE TIME PASSES BY - US 395 AT INDEPENDENCE, CA

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“TIME JUST SEEMS to pass some places by.” I agreed. The speaker was a tourist from Santa Monica. “We can’t let a year go by that we d...
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