I've decided that I love the Northern California coast even more in the Winter than the Summer. Mendocino, Fort Bragg, Westport...the coolest little towns. Driving 128 through Anderson Valley, even in a storm is pretty breathtaking.
We stayed at this place that I highly recommend if you like janky hippy shit. Howard Creek Ranch. It's hard to capture the ramshackle charm in pictures.
There's a bouncy footbridge over Howard Creek with Christmas lights on it.
It's right by a beautiful black pebble beach. The waves were nuts in the storm.
Here's the back. It's two huge houses built in the 1800s. With some separate cabins. Check it out if that sounds like something you'd like. It ain't the Hilton.
BAR wrote a review of a place that sounds really good. That's so awesome that they have mutton. I'll wait until the hype dies down, though.
Ah yes, but Mendo has nothing on Humboldt County. Why do you think I never moved back to Sacramento? You really need to try this trip:
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Nice photo of the mutton in the rain there, Beckler! That place looks great.
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I feel like Mutton in the rain today.
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Does anyone know where the indian/bangladeshi/pakistani tradition of calling goat mutton comes from? Is there an urdu-english dictionary out there that translates goat as mutton? Is it ever actually mutton?
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there was a mom with cute twin lambs who was menacing us!
ReplyDeleteah! the lost coast. i was so close.
ReplyDeleteThis place was epic inside! Much more than the somewhat janky exterior suggests. The inside was pretty much impossible to capture accurately on film.
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goddamnit! it's bad enough that democracy now has to bring on danny glover to talk about haiti (he actually had some smart things to say) but why they gotta bring eve ensler into it? they always trot her and her vagina out when they can't get a guest.
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Stayed at the Howard Creek Ranch 8 or 9 years ago. A wonderful and ecclectic place! Keep meaning to get back there. Thanks for the photos.
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I think you might need an Emu-English dictionary for that.
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If the planets align in the spring for Beerfest Weekend, ya'll can come up to my dad's janky hippie ranch in Anderson Valley.
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old rickety architecture in the boonies? f#ck, that's right up my alley. thanks for sharing the photos, my lust for wandering has been rekindled!
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