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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.
>>>
>>> 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.
I blame them for the decline in the Valley of the Moon. had it not been
for them, there would be no fast drive through[s].
>
>> 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.
Wrong Vallejo. Sonoma has General Vallejo's home it is west of the
Cheese Factory.
When I lived in Orange County there was a park on the hill where we
could see the fireworks in Huntington Beach and also in Newport. We
couldn't see the boat parade though.
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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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
There was only one mexican restaurant operating when I was living
there. It wasn't downtown it was on the hwy into town and I get the
numbers mixed up. It served horrid enchiladas with orange sauce on
them. I am used to a different type of mexican food and had never had
enchiladas with oranges on them.
>
> .
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
I only ask because there were two bicyclists running around and a
couple.
I wasn't expecting anyone up there so didn't lock the pickup up.
>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure you've got 180 right. I've been up there near
>>> Lodgepole.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
One of my regrets was not buying 3 acres of land off of Arnold Drive for
$15,000.00 from a co-worker.
It didn't' have a well or septic and as it was a dry year my twenty year
old brain thought the land won't perk and I won't be able to add a
septic. The price was $1,000.00 down and $75.00 a month with a balloon
payment in 5 years to the original owner. My co-worker owned 5 acres
next to it, and bought the 3 acres thinking he could split the parcels,
but that wasn't allowed so he sold it. I was going to run cattle on it
for pasture to pay the payments then get a building permit and building
loan and build a house. Now they have a sewer system running near the
property.
I call that it is when I should have zigged when I zagged.
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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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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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