November brought cool winds and occasional rain – the California winter is upon us. Somehow we spent almost every weekend on the coast, from wind-swept Point Reyes to the mellow beach town of Morro Bay. Though I like to whine about how cold it is I do realize how lucky we are to live in […]
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First time sailing on San Francisco Bay
After a break of more or less 10 years from sailing, we went sailing in a small sailing boat again – on San Francisco Bay! I had been in a dinghy a few times over the past decade, most memorably rescuing a clueless ex-US Navy guy in Huahine (near Tahiti), but hadn’t been a larger […]
Coldest winter is over, for now
Mark Twain reputedly asserted “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”. Maybe he never really said that, but if he had spent the summer of 2010 in SF he surely would have endorsed the sentiment. I have always been whiny about cold weather but this year it’s been REALLY cold […]