We would take Sunday drives up the coast, or to eat Italian Dinners in Occidental, or to Lake Berryessa for burgers, just driving the back roads in the old Datsun.  Gas was so cheap then.   I remember a sign in Forest Knolls that said $1.75 a gallon for several years–that was too high, by 25-50 cents.  We’d get stuck somewhere and have to use our wits to get home.

Too far for AAA, sometimes.  No credit card to speak of except for emergencies.  So, we’d figure it out.  Dumb Luck, sometimes.

January dead battery at Jenner

January 92 dead battery at Jenner

 

sun spots at Limantour

March 1992 sun spots at Limantour Beach

We would check out old houses, beautiful properties left derelict, later to find they had burned to the ground, like this beauty,  or mowed over for vineyards.

our favorite house near Lake Berryessa

February 92 abandoned house near Berryessa

abandoned house near Ferndale

April 1992  abandoned house

Abandoned church near Ferndale

Abandoned church near Ferndale