My New Kitchen
Joby Aero is moving to Marina, California, ironically in an old Fort Ord Army Hanger where I worked for another startup in the late 1990’s. It is now being wonderfully…
The Diablo Winds Arrive at Sunset Beach
I am happy to be a block from the Pacific Ocean. It’s fire season again, and even though the big one to the northeast is hundreds of miles away, the…
Anton Peter Milauskas
Anton Peter (Tony) Milauskas was born 100 years ago today. World War I had ended less than a year earlier. He and his older brother Frank likely saw early signs…
Pacific Coast Highway Pumpkin Patches
Aside from being the salad basket of the US, and with cities as the the artichoke capital and the garlic capital, PCH highway is alive with pumpkins. It draws the…
The Birds
What a fool I am – here a block away from the mighty Pacific Ocean, and only rarely walking down to the beach to experience the daily sunset. The abundance…
T-Bird Show on the Santa Cruz Wharf
The best of summer as arrived in Santa Cruz. Kids are back in school and the weekend tourist invasion is tolerable (hint: run your errands early). The surf has been…
Café Zoetrope II
I approached Café Zoetrope from the financial district after hiking down from Coit Tower – mind you, I hiked up to the tower from my hotel at Fisherman’s Wharf first.…