Steep Ravine, CA: Tired of comfy hotels with electricity, heat, and indoor plumbing?

peter.crosby — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:15:38 +0000

Do you long for the good old days when men were men, times were tough, and building codes were a pipe dream? Then let me tell you about Mount Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, California. More specifically, the Steep Ravine Campground.

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North America

united states

california

What to do in Ithaca, NY other than getting drunk, stoned, or a college degree.

peter.crosby — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 05:05:11 +0000

Ithaca is home to both the 5th-best Ivy League school, Cornell University, and the more liberal arts-oriented Ithaca College. It somehow seems appropriate to put two schools of higher learning—bastions of radical, anti-establishment, and progressive thought—on the southern tip of Cayuga Lake, the middle finger of the Finger Lakes Region.

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Why you should visit Australia in spite of all the things that could kill you.

peter.crosby — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:52:51 +0000

There’s a certain prehistoric savagery to Australia that adds excitement to everything you do, and everywhere you go. In fact, few other travel destinations offer tourists as many different and dangerous ways to painfully die.

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Australasia

Australia

3 sights in Oaxaca, Mexico that almost make up for it not being on a beach.

peter.crosby — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:08:31 +0000

Before moving to California, I’d never even heard of Oaxaca, Mexico. And what I did hear about the place didn’t seem compelling enough to make me want to visit. But what really kicked the city of Oaxaca off my Top-Places-To-Visit list was the fact that it’s a full eight-hour drive from the nearest beach. What the hell, right?

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Travel

North America

mexico

Belize: It’s like a giant saltwater aquarium that isn’t all full of fish poop.

peter.crosby — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 01:41:35 +0000

People don’t come to Belize to get lentigo malign melanoma on its white sandy beaches — frankly, they’re not the wide beaches you find around the Hawaiian, Caribbean, or Galapagos islands. Instead, people come for what those islands don’t have: an ocean-taming barrier reef.

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Travel

Central America

belize

Guerneville: Get away from everything (including cell coverage).

peter.crosby — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 01:49:33 +0000

Not every vacation destination we choose is some exotic location in a far-flung corner of the globe. Sometimes, we’re just too lazy to make proper travel plans and, instead, just look for a decent place within a couple hours drive from the Bay Area that we haven’t been to yet (or, at least, recently). And Guerneville, California is one such place. It has everything you could want in a small town except the ability to use your mobile phone.

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Seattle: It’s not always rainy, miserable, and bleak (or so they tell me).

peter.crosby — Sat, 02 May 2015 04:29:04 +0000

Seattle is famous for its horrible, hue-forsaken weather. So it’s no surprise that I don’t live there and never will. Living in Seattle is insane and, if you already do, you should seriously have your head examined because there are far better places to waste the short time you have on this planet.

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Napa Valley: Where classy people overpay to get plastered.

peter.crosby — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:04:34 +0000

California is full of amazing, beautiful places, and few have the air of class and sophistication for which the Napa Valley is known. But is there any truth to that perception, or is it all just marketing and puffery? Find out if Napa Valley is really worth burning a week of vacation time as well as your life savings.

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Seoul: The city where smartphones never sleep.

peter.crosby — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:48:58 +0000

Every once in a while I get the chance to jet off somewhere really far away for a stupid length of time, and Seoul, Korea recently made that list. So, after a twelve-hour flight from San Francisco to Inchon, I had a full 72 hours to see Seoul before getting back on another twelve-hour flight home (yeah, well, it made sense at the time).

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Prague: Where people hate expensive beer almost as much as Communism.

peter.crosby — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:59:49 +0000

The former Soviet Union turned Karl Marx’s naive, utopian dream into an oppressive and corrupt regime that finally prompted the “Velvet Revolution” in 1989. And since throwing off the yolk of authoritarianism, the Czechs have been “disinclined” to pass a lot of restrictive laws — so what more reason do you need to go?

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Europe

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