Whats Up With LA Taking All of the Water?

JEN AND ROMY FREDERICK OFTEN TAKE OFF IN THEIR VW TO GO CAMPING AND WRITE ABOUT THEIR DISCOVERIES. HERE JEN WRITES ABOUT A RECENT TRIP EAST OF THEIR OAKLAND HOME. THANKS  FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO OUR BLOG, JEN ….. In our recent jaunts to the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, be it to go to the desert, the [...]

Inspiring places over the last few months

    After setting off on our first day and not being sure how the van would manage getting up and over the pass, Mount Shasta was a welcoming sight at the end of hours of driving through fog and rain and a boring greyness. When suddenly the fog lifted, and the white volcanic peak [...]

Seashore treasures

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California musings – Part 1

What can I say about California (a mini-series) That first day in December of driving the van up and over the Ashland pass wondering if it would make it up several thousand feet, and then miles of tiring driving in the fog and rain with the unfamiliar noise of the VW engine piercing my brain, [...]

A Stroke of Insight

At the weekend a new friend in Santa Barbara, hearing of my interest in neurophysiology, introduced me to a wonderful book, “A Stroke of insight”. Today in Carpinteria I walked into a used book store to search for a copy of this book and asking if they had it in stock, a kind lady offered to [...]

Memories are made of this

It’s ironic that the last post I wrote on Tuesday in Monterey mentioned Alfred Hitchcock and his movie Vertigo. Shortly after I left and started the coastal drive on Route 1, the weather worsened and I found myself being buffeted by head on winds and driving round hairpin bends in pouring rain. Watching the waves [...]

Barking Mad in Monterey

Hi from one of the wealthiest places in California and the whole of the USA. I’m in Monterey and Pacific Grove, close to Pebble Beach. This morning as I took an early morning walk along a scenic park by the ocean, admiring the beautiful homes and manicured lawns, I wondered why I tend to get [...]

Inspiration – kd lang at the Olympics

Ever since I read about k.d. lang in ‘All you Get is Me’ (and saw her at Heathrow airport the day after I bought the book), I have been inspired by this woman whose integrity is of the highest calibre. Last night, as I sat at my friends home east of San Francisco and watched [...]

Redwood Forest Foundation

At the end of the meeting on Saturday, Lin Barrett was selling a truck full of small Redwood trees to raise funds for Redwood Forest Foundation Inc (RFFI). Lin told Carole about how 70,000 baby trees came to be available for planting due to the demise of a local lumber company. The cessation of clear [...]

REDWOOD FUTURES: Jan.29 & 30 at Mendocino College

Friday, January 29th, 6-9 pm: DOCUMENTARY Mike Fay will present his National Geographic video Climbing the Redwood Giants Center Theater, Mendocino College, Ukiah, California Saturday, January 30th, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm CONFERENCE Menocino Futures Initiative Center Theater, Mendocino College, Ukiah, California RSVP required. For more information, email Susan Strom at sjstrom@mcn.org and see www.mendofutures.org See more photos at The [...]