Showing posts with label California Coast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California Coast. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

The West Edge Tour 2026

 

              

The West Edge Tour
2026
Highway 101 & 1
California & Oregon
San Diego to Astoria
 
Karen and Mike Garofalo
Old Cruisers in one Old SUV
Talking about What We See
Industry, Ag, Fish, Trees, Us
Leaving the City by the Bay
 
On the
Golden Gate Bridge
Where
Highway
101 & 1
Are One

 

Golden Gate Bridge 1937-

Where Highway 101 & 1 Meet
At the Golden Gate Bridge

Blog Posts about The West Edge Tour 2026

Target Date: April 1st to April 21st, 2026

 

Day 1:

VancouverPortlandLongview,
AstoriaSeasideCannon Beach,
NehalemRockawayTillamook,
Lincoln CityDepot BayNewport,
WaldportYachatsFlorence.

 

Day 2:

FlorenceReedsportCoos Bay,
BandonPort OrfordGold's Beach,
BrookingsCrescent CityOrick,
Patrick's PointMcKinleyvilleEureka.

 


At the Edges of the West

Friday, January 23, 2026

Happy Birthday to Me: 80th Birthday

I was born on January 23, 1946 in Los Angeles. Today, I am 80 years of age.  Happy Birthday to Me!

My brief biography and a more extensive biography are found online.
My resume is online. My Cloud Hands Blog has been online since 2005.
I have been employed as a webmaster since 1998.








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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Travels on Highway 101: At the Edges of the West

 




At the Edges of the West

By Mike Garofalo

Travels on US Highway 101 and 1

Memories of Pacific Coast Places
West Coast Snapshots & Snippets
Delightful Coastal Spur Roads

Docu-Poem, Haiku, Short Poems, Photos,
Sonnets, Quintains, Graphics, Concrete Poems

Highway 101 and 1: Docu-Poem
By Mike Garofalo

Alphabetical Index of Titles


Beachcombing and Tidepooling

Big Sur

Bottom Line

Bridges Over Rivers

East Los Angeles Revisited

El Camino Real

Campfires Smoking

Clear Cut

Cliffside at Bandon Beach

The Clock Ticks Within the Mind

Concrete/Shape Poetry

Coos Bay South to Point Reyes

Disappearing Darkness

Down for the Count

Down South

Embodied Time

The Eucalyptus Trees at Tomales Bay

Eye to Eye Memories

Fields of Cream

Fire! Fire!

Flowers in the Sky

A Fork in the Crypto Road

Funky Artist's Enclaves

Fun Times Ahead

Grayland Beach Guides

Gushen Grove Sonnets

Haiku and Senryu

Hip Woke West

Hood Canal: Beauty and Bounty

In a Watery Grave

In the Shadows of Mountains

Industries Booming

Cliffside at Bandon Beach

Lighthouses On the Cliffs

Meeting at the Golden Gate

Myrtlewood and Shells Alive

Night Camp at Pistol River

Notes and Reminders

The Olympic Curve on 101

Petaluma Cool

Places and Times Intertwined

Quatrains Bundled Up

Raven Broke Open the Magical Clam

Reminder from the Other World

River People North

The Rotting Redwood Tree

Salinas Valley Farms

The Salmon are Back

SanFran and L.A. Lives

Sciences Strong

The Scissors of My Decisions

Secrets of Night

Shallow Willapa Bay at Low Tide

Sitting by the Still Bay

Skeletons in Love

Slouching Into Incoherence

Snapshots from the Shore

Stepping Over Epiphanies

Summer in the Sun

Surfing Way

Timber Empire

25 Steps and Beyond

2+2 = 4: Now and Forever More

West Coast Ideologies

Winter at the Shore