There are Cajun Kitchen’s aplenty: Pearl’s Cajun Kitchen in Oklahoma City, Boudreaux’s Cajun Kitchens all over Houston, Floyd’s, also in Houston, Mama Lou’s in Albuquerque, Hackett’s in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Vickie’s Cajun Kitchen which isn’t actually a kitchen, but a list of cajun recipies given to Dianne’s Kitchen which isn’t a kitchen either, …
Expanding twenty-four and a half miles between Sonoma and Marin Counties, Running Fence was completed on September 10, 1976. The fence was an 18 feet high cable covered with over 2 million square feet of white nylon fabric which illuminated in the sunlight and seemed to absorb and reflect the sunsets. As an art student …
Born: 1926 Died: Summer 2003 If you’re familiar with the old blacktop two-lane, you know that U.S. Highway 666 ‘ Triple 6 ‘ connected a pawn-shop town to a Superfund site, that it ran through some of the most unforgiving terrain in three states, that it was the site of some of the wildest summer …
Summerland was founded in 1889 by rancher Harry L. Williams. The Big Yellow House, obvious to any traveler on State Highway 101, was built in 1884 as his personal residence. By 1896 with the boom in oil, Summerland was quickly turned into an eyesore as drilling operations and oil derricks populated this beachside community. As …
The Washoe House proclaims to be “the oldest roadhouse in the state.†This could possibly be disputed, but by whom? The place has been around since 1859, so by now it’s at least earned the right not to be argued with. I came across the place just after moving up north to Petaluma to …
I had no idea where we were going, everyday with this family was an adventure for me. They’d introduced me to my first rock concert, a number of other firsts that I’ll take the fifth on if asked, and now six of us were packed into a station wagon heading up the Pass to the …
The trail to Red Rock is at the end of Paradise Road on the Santa Ynez River. Jumping off he 40 ft. cliffs led to only two accidents in my days visiting Red Rock. One friend dove and his head could have used an extra 5 ft. or so of water. Maybe if it had …
The Bluebird Cafe is long gone. To be more specific the Bluebird Cafe in Santa Barbara is gone, there is a Bluebird Cafe in Wakefield, Rhode Island, one at 4104 Hillsboro Road, Nashville, Tennessee, another in Hopland, California, one in Athens, Georgia, another on Prytania Street in New Orleans – which is actually the predessor …
With no intention of “life in a dorm” on the Sonoma State campus. A room-4-rent advertisement led to an exciting introduction to Sonoma county. The room was in a house at the border where old Petaluma meets country, up Sunnyslope Road, just off D Street. Eggs for sale a couple doors down, but two blocks …
Stagecoach Road is one of Santa Barbara County’s most famous roads. It is part of the original Stagecoach Route when the coach’s ruled the terrain from 1861 to 1910. In 1910 the first automobile drove across the San Marcos Pass, effectively ending the stage coach era. However, Stagecoach Rd. remained the only means of traversing …