Author: Erica | November 9th, 2009 PICKS: Limantour Beach
Admittedly, driving to Point Reyes on a Saturday afternoon was a bad idea and I should have mentally prepared myself for driving amongst the leapfrogging line of aggressive wannabe sports car drivers that surrounded us the entire way there. Lacking such mental preparation, I began to envision a weekend filled with crowds […]
Author: Erica | November 7th, 2009 PICKS: SFMOMA
The first Tuesday of every month is the free day at most San Francisco museums and, being that we are enthusiasts of both free things and museums, we were pretty happy to partake in the November day of gratis museum going. Being at a museum on the free day is especially pleasurable because […]
Author: Erica | November 2nd, 2009 PICKS: Sufficient Grounds in Berkeley
A GPS is a useful gadget, but its utility is greatly limited by the fact that the world (and especially infrastructure) is continually changing, while the GPS’s maps are not. Let’s say, for example, the Bay Bridge is closed, but your GPS doesn’t know about this and is assuredly leading […]
Author: Erica | October 29th, 2009 PICKS: Mono Vista RV Park showers in Lee Vining
Very clean, pretty cheap and about as close as you can get to Tioga Pass without going over, these showers were just what we were looking for.
Saddlebag Lake
Unfortunately for us, the parking lot at Saddlebag Lake was so snow-filled we couldn’t maneuver Arvin into […]
Author: Erica | October 26th, 2009 PICKS: Stellar Brew
Mammoth Lakes is a serious ski town, really an all around mountain sports town, and there is no greater evidence of this than the morning conversations at Stellar Brew. Locals gussied up in their down and fleece come by for their morning caffeine fix and stop to discuss climbing/hiking/mountain biking plans for […]
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