First, you will need a road. We picked Route 1. Second, you will also need a car.  We picked a new Ford Mustang.   And then you drive.  We stopped for lunch at Lucia Lodge where the burgers were big but the salads were bigger. And beautiful.  We booked a cheap motel in Cambria.  Not only did …

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Lombard Street Alcatraz; looking super creepy in the fog. The Mission District. Amazing playgrounds, bakeries, history and feelings told through art, tacos and pie.  We walked to the Golden Gate Bridge with a scone picnic. What else did we eat? Pacific Catch: beautiful coconut shrimp, deep fried oysters and fish Isa: Californian and french inspired small …

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Jim asked what was for dinner.  A fleeting look of fear flashed behind those beautiful blue eyes of his as the words came out of his mouth.  He remembers the last time we did the GHCC Challenge.  He hadn’t forgotten the horror of The Vegetable Flan of Nightmares.  “Brown Stew” I replied, lowering my chin …

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