• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Catherine Gacad

  • About
  • Categories
    • Archives
    • Blogging
    • Burning Man
    • City Guides
    • Education & Politics
    • Favorite Books
    • Finances & Retirement
    • Parenthood
    • Relationships
    • Religion
    • San Francisco Bay Area
    • Travel
  • Hire Me
  • Subscribe
    • Feedburner
    • Bloglovin
    • Feedly
  • Search

All Posts

Gone North

Around 2 in the afternoon yesterday, we got in the car and decided to take a trip.  How about Hog Island?  We’d always wanted to go.  Not the Hog Island Bar a few minutes from where we live at the Ferry Building, but the Hog Island that is so friggin far north I wouldn’t have done the trip had I known.  It’s an excruciating zig-zagged 90 minute drive to Tomales Bay.  It’s rugged California in all its glory.  It’s beautiful.  The scenery is gorgeous, but I didn’t get a chance to enjoy it.  Driving fiercely, I just wanted to get there.  Past Muir Beach, past Stinson, past Bolinas.  Still not there.  Past Olema, Point Reyes, and Inverness.  GAWD!  Finally in the town of Marshall, 50 miles north of home, was the Hog Island Oyster Farm.  Picnic area full, no room for us.  Huge sigh.  We backtracked to a beachside eatery in Marshall and went hog wild with three dozen oysters (raw, BBQ, Rockefeller) and blue cheese from Cowgirl Creamery.  Great cheap food, pretty beach, but not sure it was worth all that driving.  Maybe if we had started earlier and made a leisurely drive out of it.  Although divine intervention struck us while driving past a catholic church in Olema which allowed us to catch the 5:30 mass right on time, and saved us from having to go on Sunday.  Our final stop was in Stinson for a few glasses of wine at sunset before heading home and arriving back in the city at 9.

Related

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

07.16.10

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to my site, derived from an advice column I wrote while getting my MBA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I give helpful, opinionated advice based on my own experience and from the expertise of my extensive network. For more, click here.

Categories

  • Archives
  • Blogging
  • Burning Man
  • City Guides
  • Education & Politics
  • Favorite Books
  • Finances & Retirement
  • Parenthood
  • Relationships
  • Religion
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Travel

Popular Posts

  • An Exploration of World Religions: Zoroastrianism
  • A Flowchart for Choosing Your Religion
  • Why Do Guys Date Girls Who Barely Speak English?
  • Touring Sunnylands, "Camp David of the West," near Palm Springs
  • UC Berkeley English Department
  • How to Avoid Fecal Coliform Bacteria on Your Next Flight
  • What to Know About the Lair of the Golden Bear
  • Daily Interviews
  • Pre-Thanksgiving Not So Good News
  • Oysters at Cafe des Amis

Back to top

© 2025 Catherine Gacad.