Fort Bragg Festival, Mendocino Coast

Paul Bunyan Days, three day festival with logging competitions, parades, miss redwood forest beauty pageant and more!! Labor Day weekend, September 4-6

We can even enter Juju in the kiddie parade!

Folsom Street Fair

On September 27 the Folsom Street Fair has public spankings for local charities. It is perhaps the World's largest leather event.

Shakespeare outside in San Francisco

Bring your family, friends, a blanket and a picnic to enjoy FREE professional theater in a beautiful park setting.

Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen in Verona is played outside these dates and locations.

Football or baseball?

The two big teams in San Francisco are:

• The successful football team San Francisco 49ers plays at CandleStick Stadium (see picture). The season runs from August to December and tickets go from $59.
• The baseball team San Francisco Giants plays at At&T Park (see map below). The season runs from April to October and tickets go from $10.
  

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County Fairs and Festivals, California

Sonoma County Fair, July 27 - August 8

Bluegrass Festival, Aug 13 - Aug 15 (Tres Pino, 50 miles south of San Francisco)

Wine Country Cycle Tours

In Napa Valley, guided tours (full day) $140 per person, or bike rental alone $40 per person ($25 for baby-wagon).  Also have electric bikes, and you can arrange to have any wine purchases picked up so you don't have to cycle with them.

In Sonoma Valley, bike rental alone $25 per person

La Leche League Meetings

Meetings in San Francisco:  http://lllnorcal.org/groups/PeninsulaCA.html

In Durango on the 1st Monday of the month http://www.llli.org/groups/@llli*group*durango

Solar Power Institute

Lots of good classes to take at the Solar Living Institute in Ukiah (2 hours from San Francisco), including:

July 17: Raising backyard goats

July 29 - Aug 6: Photovoltaics Design and Installation (certification course, exam follows)

Aug 7: Raising backyard chickens

Aug 28: Urban Beekeeping (in San Francisco)

Aug 29 - Sep 3: Off-grid Systems

Sep 9 - Sep 12: Electricity, Plumbing, Carpentry

Onsite camping $10 per night

25 mile hiking

Lost Coast 3-day "serious" backpack trip very near Humbolt Redwood State Park.

The hike follows The Lost Coast Trail between Orchard Camp and Usal Camp, a strenuous trek best done in three days. For being along the coast, there is virtually no level walking on this hike: the trail constantly encounters sheer creek canyons, descending quickly and ascending steeply hundreds of feet at a time. The two ends of The Lost Coast Trail are far apart by road (2-3 hours driving time) and two vehicles are required for transportation to and from the trailheads. While the hike can be done in either direction. Those wishing to dayhike from the north trailhead should turn around at Wheeler Camp, making a round trip of 9.4 miles with an elevation gain / loss of roughly 1000 feet.

Do this hike from north to south, so that you have the brisk north winds at your back, not in your face.

Redwoods

Humboldt Redwood State Park, camping must be booked in advance.  Easy hikes on well maintained trails.

Park headquarters and the Visitor Center are located on the Avenue of the Giants, State Route 254, between the towns of Weott and Myers Flat. This is 45 miles south of Eureka and 20 miles north of Garberville off of Highway 101. Weott is 228 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 101. The 32 mile long Avenue of the Giants runs roughly parallel to Highway 101 from Phillipsville in the south to Pepperwood in the north.


Latitude / Longitude: 40.3225 / -123.9928

4 hours from Redding and 4 hours from San Francisco

Ghost Town

Super nifty state park, the best preserved ghost town from the gold rush era of California, 3 hours from Lake Tahoe/Reno: Bodie State Historic Park (picture right).  No camping.  Maybe a good place to stay is Mono Lake Tufa State Park(picture left)?  Less  than 20 miles south of Bodie

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Calistoga Mud Spa

This is a family friendly place recommended by Lonely Planet for mud baths and tourism in Napa Valley (1.5 hours from San Francisco).  $170 per night:  Calistoga Spa Hot Springs

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Chess in San Francisco

The Mechanics' Chess Club is the oldest US chess club and it is open weekdays 11am-9pm and weekends 11am-5pm.

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Hotel in San Francisco

Recommended as very family friendly:

HOTEL DEL SOL
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, UNITED STATES
3100 WEBSTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ca. $150 per night?

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