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> John Fereira wrote:
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>> HoofPrints
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>>>> HoofPrints
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>>> Ya mean where the Ct. Used to be? Yeah, and every Fourth of July
>>> there was a parade. I lived there in 74-78. Went back for a visit
>>> to the Mission, and oh my how things have changed, and not for the
>>> better.
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>> I have actually only been there a couple of times. I was born in
>> small town on the coast northwest of Sonoma but mostly lived in the
>> bay area until I moved east about 12 years ago.
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> We had heard rumors that the Smothers Brothers had bought some vineyard
> in the area. I was coming out of Dr. Grays office and ran into one of
> them. they were driving a red car.
I worked at a fancy restaurant in Los Gatos (south SF bay area) just out of
high school as a busboy and served Dick Smothers once.
> When we first moved there I lived in Glen Ellen, then we moved to El
> Verano and then into Sonoma.
> The bicentennial fireworks display at Vallejo's home was spectacular.
> Some Witch stole my great-grandmothers rings out of my car. I was
> going to replace the stones with a cameo, but as they are stolen no way
> can I do that. The rings were from the late 1800's.
Ouch. I've seen the fireworks in Vallejo on 4th of July. I had a roommate
that owned a 28' sailboat that he berthed in Richmond Marina. We sailed up
to Vallejo on the 4th one year and watched the fireworks from the boat,
stayed over night on the boat, then sailed back the next day. I was also on
that sailboat anchored near the north end of the GG bridge for the San
Francisco bicentennial fireworks. That was, by far, the most spectacular
fireworks show I've ever seen.
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>>>> There's a famous statue
>>>> in the park of a group of men raising the first Bear flag. I'm a
>>>> descendant of one of the men depicted in the statue.
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>> I'm actually not remembering the statue correctly. It doesn't show
>> all of the men in the "Bear Flag Revolt" but I'm a descendant of one
>> of them (Henry Beeson). The flag was first raised in that central
>> square though.
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> I probably saw it but with a toddler in tow, you don't check out the
> statues just the weirdo's.
> The library was on the other side of the Ct. House. I think the old
> ice cream parlor was called the Creamery.
> Lots of nice shops there. A nice French Restaurant, and if you were in
> Boyes Hot Springs Juanita kept the tourii entertained shouting
> obscenities at them from her loft.
I remember going a really good South American restaurant on the square.
After lunch there we went over to Napa valley and stayed at the White Sulfer
Hot Springs, did some wine tasting the next day, then drove over to the
coast to Ft. Bragg to visit my grandfather.
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>> I used to go backpacking once a year for about 8 years on the South
>> fork of the Kaweah river. The turn off was just before Three Rivers
>> (coming from Visalia). It turned to a dirt road for about five miles
>> and then entered Sequoia National park and ended at a trailhead.
>> There was a huge Sequoia tree about 100' from where we would always
>> camp.
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> Cam and I were there. I had never been that far up the Kaweah before
> and not to the head of the river. I didn't see the redwood.
> You didn't happen to be the one to steal my $85.00 were you?
Nope. Could have been a bear or a ring-tail cat. The trailhead was at a
place call South Fork campground. The first time I went backpacking there
we came out after 4 day to find a bear trap next to where we had slept at
the trail head a few days earlier. It had a bear in it. We talked to a
bear management guy there (he had some great stories) for a bit and then
watched as he released the bear.
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>>> Another way into the park is to take 63 [?} to 180 {?] past Squaw
>>> Valley and into the park. Squaw Valley isn't the ski resort up
>>> north.
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>> I'm pretty sure you've got 180 right. I've been up there near
>> Lodgepole.
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> I've only seen Lodgepole a couple of times. Lots of horse people ride
> in the park and camp.
> A friend of mine had a friend whose horse fell down a mountain and had
> to be rescued.
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>>>>> I was just down that way a week or so ago, and am heading that
>>>>> way in a couple of days on business.
>>>>
>>>> In the fall I am going on business trips to Rome, IT, and
>>>> Livingstone, Zambia.
>>>
>>> I have no desire to travel overseas. I did when I was younger but I
>>> wanted to go to the Mediterranean and any island.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I also like the Tule River. We used to head up that way to what
>>>>> the locals called Peace Hole. Huge diving rocks. I have a photo
>>>>> of one huge boulder that looks like a brain with a stem, then a
>>>>> deep pool.
>>>>
>>>> There's a popular spot like that near Hell's Half Acre on the
>>>> Stanislaus. I was going to mention an ill-fated fishing trip
>>>> upstream from that spot but I'm going to save it in case blu has
>>>> any ideas about hijacking my laptop while I'm in Denver.
>>>
>>> I don't think I have been on the Stanislaus. The Yuba is a nice
>>> place especially off the back porch of the Washington Hotel. Past
>>> the bridge north of that town, there is a bridge and a nice place to
>>> cool off. The American near Placerville is ok too. Lots of gold and
>>> miners with claims.
>>
>> The Stanislaus runs near Sonora pass (hwy 108). Sonora is a neat town
>> but I like the area east of Dodge Ridge (the ski resort) around
>> Emigrant Wilderness better.
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> I like Sonora too. I looked at property in 87 on a place called the
> Bar XX. There was a house for sale on 20 acres for $88,000. The owner
> had been busted for drugs. He left his weight measure there. My
> daughter didn't want to leave P'Ville as it was her last year in high
> school and she was on Yearbook staff, so I decided not to transfer and
> move out of town. Which I had done what I wanted to do instead of
> listening to her.
We all have regrets. I was once recruited by a previous supervisor to
interview for a job at what was then a small startup company. I didn't go
because I had only worked at Hewlett Packard for a couple of years and it
was a place that I really liked at the time. If I had gone to the interview
and got the job, I would have been Cisco Systems employee #10. Oops.
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>>>>>>> I guess I should
>>>>>>> add that I really wish they would ease up on the way we fight
>>>>>>> fires in our national parks and go back to using chemicals
>>>>>>> instead of relying on bags of water to put them out.
>>>>>>> Everyone is concerned about the rain forest being turned into
>>>>>>> a parking lot, yet the Sierras are like our rain forests and
>>>>>>> yeah trees help with the green house effect. Putting the
>>>>>>> fires out would do a lot to save the trees, and also stop the
>>>>>>> air pollution created by letting them burn out on their own.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know what you mean. I went up that way with a friend many
>>>>>> years ago for a multiday, multi-destination camping/flyfishing
>>>>>> trip on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. We came back
>>>>>> over through Tioga pass and was planning on camping out for a
>>>>>> couple of days near Buck Meadows. We ended up having to drive
>>>>>> quite a ways west before we could find an area that wasn't
>>>>>> burning.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That is one drive I have never gone on. During the winter it is
>>>>> closed.
>>>>>
>>>> It usually opens this weekend (Memorial weekend). I went over the
>>>> pass one year on the day it opened. In fact, we had to sit along
>>>> the road for a few hours before the gate opened. We were about the
>>>> 10th car in line heading east. It was really spectacular with all
>>>> the rivers and streams full of snow melt. About 60 miles after
>>>> going through the gate at the western entrance we came around a
>>>> corner and saw oncoming traffic for the first time in over an hour.
>>>
>>> Did yo catch it out of Merced? If so they are having a problem with
>>> that entrance into Yosemite.
>>> The road caved in a couple of years ago, and the locals are
>>> struggling because the tourists trade has been cut off. That is the
>>> way out of Yosemite used to drive back on during our ditch years. i
>>> had a nice corduroy jacket my boyfriend lifted from some sports car
>>> to keep me warm.
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>> I didn't go as far south as Merced (although I have). I was talking
>> about hwy 120. It runs from near Manteca up into the park. There is
>> a gate across the road about 30 miles past the entrance to the park
>> after it splits to go down into Yosemite Valley or over the pass
>> through Toulumne Meadows. We were parked near the gate for about 3
>> hours before it opened. It was actually supposed to open a day
>> earlier but there was still some snow to clear off the roads.
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> hmmm, don't know. Does it lead to the Mariposa Fairgrounds?
> That is a nice place too, and one of my horse clubs held an annual
> horse show there every year.
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