Places
Western NY –
interesting stuff
Bookstores:
The Book Corner, Niagara Falls - around
since 1927 (Main Street)
Cool
stuff:
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
Western NY – click
for larger photo
A favorite spot near Niagara Falls.
A scanned in Winter image from a NF Winter Garden brochure
A cool picture from the 1901 Pan American Exposition
Northern
California – interesting stuff
Bookstores:
Wessex Books – around the block from Kepler’s
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books – there used to be 3 but the Cupertino and Larkspur Landing stores are gone.
General cool stuff:
Monterey Bay Aquarium – one of my favorite places on Earth
Point Bonita Lighthouse at Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Lick Observatory (Mt. Hamilton) links One and Two, a bit about the Reverend Hamilton
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
North Beach, SF’s coolest neighborhood
East Bay Vivarium – THE place to shop for reptiles in the Bay Area
Sporty:
Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve, San Mateo County
Mission Peak (trail starts near Ohlone College)
Motorcycling @ Skyline, Alice's Restaurant
Restaurants:
Duarte’s Tavern - A restaurant/bar in Pescadero with the best seafood around
Moss Beach Distillery – They smuggled rum here during Prohibition, now it’s a great place to eat. And it’s haunted.
Hogs Breath Inn – Clint Eastwood’s place in Carmel
Lugano – Great Swiss restaurant in Carmel
Northern California –
click for larger photo
Photo
of Hakone Gardens in Saratoga superimposed with favorite Japanese calligraphy.
Hang
glider at Fort Funston near San Francisco
2
pictures from a playground at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. Must
be awesome growing up at this quiet, remote place.
Christmas
1985 at the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell.
My
first bike on Skyline near 280 & 92, 2 other peoples’ pics of Devil’s Slide
Iowa
– interesting stuff
History:
Living History Farms - Urbandale, IA
State Historical Society of Iowa
Sporty:
Iowa DNR’s Charles “Butch” Olofson Shooting Range
Iowa - click for
larger photo
Living History Farms, two Spring day shots and Trick or Treat night near Halloween.
Winter
view from our apartment porch. Winters
in Iowa were gorgeous, if
intensely
cold: the temps would stay –20 F for a
week BEFORE wind chill and
ice would form on the inside of our windows. Beautiful, though.
Seattle, WA area - interesting stuff
Upper Case Books, Snohomish, WA
We’ve
been in the Seattle area for several years now and I don’t have
many
good photos yet. Pathetic.
Switzerland
Birthplace
of the World Wide Web? Or just a spider
web near the razor wire
at a
Swiss nuclear plant? You decide…