Nov. 27 Mount Tamalpais and Bolinas Total driving so far 4,939 miles / 7,902 km
Bolinas-on-google.maps
A lot has happened since the Day 47 Schnitzeljagd post;
The Day 47 post was on front of Schnitzeljagd for weeks like Groundhog Day, since I got so busy with working, a week of business travel, us visiting national park places on weekends, buying a new car, registering the car with the New Jersey DMV as out-of-state purchase, watching the soccer world cup, and and and…
We started Day 82, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, from our current basecamp in San Francisco – the city is as great as we thought it will be (more on that later). We drove up to Mount Tamalpais in our super luxurious Grand Cherokee which nearly is a self-driving vehicle.
Mount “T” is of course very well known to the locals as a state park and recreational area, but I discovered it by chance on an excursion around 2011 on a business trip to biotech land in South San Francisco. Its a stunning area, and we have a self-made print in our living room back home from one of the wind swept trees on the golden hills of Mount T.
This is how it looked today, a bit hazy of course (and I was shooting into the sun):
Roaming around the hills of Mount T we saw this orange beauty (I am not a fan of the current Corvettes, but the classic Stingray ‘got it’):
From Mount T we drove to an amazing village, that I had also discovered on this past business trip in search for food:
Bolinas … a living time capsule … a village where any road sign along California state route 1 that points the way into town has been torn down by local residents.
What happens in Bolinas ?
Surfing, most of all.
A little bit of tourism. But our waiter said that the Stinson Beach in the south and Point Reyes in the north ‘filter out’ most tourists, and only a few make it into Bolinas. Of course we were among those chosen ones.
‘Filtering out tourists‘, that says it all.
Housing ranges from original homes in tear down condition to original-renovated and a few high end houses. To consider: water was in short supply already in the 50s according one ex-resident we chatted with. It is even more scarce today. In summer time, if a household uses too much water, the town just shuts down the water supply for that house.
(All you Lakers, running your lawn sprinklers at noon time, watch out what the future will bring.)
There are some other amazing sights in town, from the Grand Hotel to various classic cars:
RV’s also exhibit a special flavor:
There is so much interesting stuff and people to see, it’s impossible to not be amazed by Bolinas:
We finished off the day the same I had finished 10+ years ago, with an early dinner at Coast Cafe (www.coastcafebolinas.com); great food, locally caught fish and locally sourced ingredients:
Bolinas is a unique kind of place, as is so well expressed by the graffiti on the boat slip people walk down to get into the surf:
ART PERMITTED ON THE WALL
BY ORDER OF DARTH VADER
The Great Schnitzel Jagd 