We saw this beautiful butterfly while visiting the Passalacqua Winery in Dry Creek Valley. Outside the tasting room, and wooden patio overlooked the wide valley with vines as far as the eye could see. This Swallowtail was on a tree right next to the patio. Watch the video: Western Tiger Swallowtail [640 KB]
I am proud to introduce a new section to fautrever.com: Articles. We have learned some strange and amazing things as we travel and explore! Each place we visit has a story to tell, and a special place in history. Our challenge is to learn those stories and share them with you. That’s what the Articles [...]
Just as the weather was unusually hot in the San Francisco area, so it was further north. California was in the middle of its hottest heat wave ever and Healdsburg, which is about 70 miles north of San Francisco (and approximately 700 miles north of Tucson), was in the triple digits! We found a shady [...]
We arrived in Berkeley late Saturday night. Our friend Tim had given us directions to a parking lot near the harbor where we could park and sleep. The kitties really enjoyed the fishy smells of the Berkeley Marina during their evening walk. In the morning we walked over to OCSC, the sailing school where Tim [...]
On our way north from Pismo to San Francisco we stopped in San Luis Obispo to wander around one of California’s old Spanish missions. SLO (as the locals call it) is centered around this old, yet still functioning Spanish mission. The Spanish crown encouraged the Franciscan mission system as an inexpensive way to lay claim [...]
The beach near the town of Pismo Beach is full of contradictions. It is the only beach in California where standard highway vehicles are allowed to drive on the beach (because of the extra fine grain, firm sand), yet it is also the largest over-wintering site of Monarch butterflies in the US (over 100,00 of [...]
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