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Please bigjohn tell me you have a friend who talks like Boomhower. (is that how you spell it?)

If there is one thing I have noticed is that people from Texas are NOT shy about saying they are from there nor shy about telling you how great it is. Which makes me want to move there all the more!! How many months a year can you golf down there?

Ajax, that house out on the point is not a house. It's a restaurant called "Hs. Lordship's." And the point is part of the Berkeley Marina, where I've taken sailing and kayaking classes. I also proposed to my wife there.

peter- awesome pics man.. looks like a post card.. out my window right now, i see a parking lot, a strip mall, and the stadium where our local HS team plays football.. i think you win for best office view.

ajax- i was thinking the same thing about that house.. i guess it is possible to have the best, and worse location, at the same time. if i lived there, i would be checking the weather reports hourly.

huffer- i got one buddy, bronson, he aint as bad as boomhower, but pretty close. he is from denver city, texas, which is way out in the boonies.. we haze him all the time about him speaking some foreign language. he likes to say he can speak three languages: english, mexican, and hick.. and he dont speak none of them very well.. as a matter of fact, i just helped him build a chicken coop a few weekends ago, and by the end of the day, i started talkin like him.. i figure a small price to pay for free farm fresh eggs all summer.

and we play golf 12 months a year down here. there is no break. the fairways get hard, and the greens get slow from about november to march, but you can still play. it snowed ONE time here this winter, literally for about 2 hours.. then it was gone. the lowest recorded temp we had this winter was 19F(about -6C), and that was in january. it was a rather mild winter. the panhandle got it pretty bad, but we were fine down here.

and yes, texans love texas. it is like a close family member. i miss it when i am away, and feel safe whan i am here. sounds corny, i know, but hey, thats the way it is. i am sure everyone feels connected to where they are from, its just a little stronger here.

dont get me started, i will ramble forever!!

bigjohn

If it's the picture I looked at (sure looks like a house with just one car there) that place is more likely threatened by erosion than quakes. It looks like it is built on that super-lightweight sedimentary dirt-clod stuff.

Frisco sure is a pretty city, too.

Great photos! It brings back memories of out trip to the California coast last summer. We stayed at Half Moon Bay and traveled up and down the coast from Big Sur to north of San Francisco. It was breathtakingly beautiful! We visited Pt. Reyes lighthouse and we aslo spent a day in Carmel by the Sea and we spent a day in Yosemite gawkin' at some BIG ASS trees. It's easy to fall in love with the California coast. My kids want to go back to California this summer and I'm seriously considering it.

Oops! I was talking about my own picture. Yeah, the one from the website is a house.

My apologies. I coulda made it clearer WHICH photo I was talking about. DUH! At least we now know where you proposed to your wife.

bigjohn, don't feel bad about your view, we have no windows in our building. now, similar to the left coast ocean pics, we have the atlantic here. much colder but the dunes on cape cod are spectacular as well. didn't see any lighthouses in the pics, any out thatway?

We have 15, to be exact. Use the Lighthouses menu near the bottom of this page to see them.

peter those of us lucky enough to live near salt water appreciate it more when we travel and are away from it. i must say fish from the left and right coasts have very little in common when it comes to taste. hinda like svs or hsu for a sub.
dan