by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 13, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
We leave Howard Creek Ranch a bit after 11:00. If you ever get a chance to go to the coast up there in Nor Cal I cannot recommend this place enough. It is a bit rustic but in all the right ways. Sonny, who runs the place, has been there for fifty years, gradually...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 12, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
California could lift a middle finger to those who put it down but let’s just go with “Hold my beer.” Our casita was truly in the heart of the hood where I grew up. We moved here to the Lake Merritt area from East Oakland where we had lived in the back end of a duplex...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 11, 2022 | Locations and Destinations
We took a day off and Michelle took a nap on her right side. That is the big news for the day. Around 11 in the morning I asked her if she wanted to take a ride. She shook her head vigorously in the negative. She wanted to stay put and was pretty happy for most of the...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 10, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
The Baskin Robbins is now some kind of photo gallery and Colonial Donuts has been displaced down the block from its prime corner position. 31 flavors of memories. Memories of Patty and the day I got to walk her home, and hot raised-glazed early in the morning, coffee...
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 9, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
Whenever I hear the word Aroma, I imagine Johnny Carson saying it in an opening monologue, meaning, of course, baaad arooooma. But Aromas, plural, is a gem. And we got there entirely by accident. The day began in Watsonville after a sleep-in, which for me was 8:30....
by Peter Kjenaas | Jul 8, 2022 | Locations and Destinations, Road Notes
We were able to get on the road at 10, fully loaded, and I didn’t realize I had forgotten something till we were 10 minutes out. Easy to turn around and go back but… Nah!!!! Packing for this trip was much easier than Excursion 7 which involved camping. We goin’...
