Still writing up my final thoughts. In the meantime, here’s where I walked. I’m trying to add the pictures along the way, too:
It seems to only work when you click “full screen”. I’ll try a different map in the coming days.
The route
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4 responses to “The route”
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I think you can honestly say you lived in SoCal, even if only for four days. You certainly walked more of it than many locals will walk it throughout entire life spans.
I read in SFGate that you might consider doing it again. Maybe consider NorCal. The El Camino Real going right up the heart of the San Francisco Bay Peninsula might be worth considering. As someone who has walked across Los Angeles and the Bay Area I think it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the difference between rival SoCal bs NorCal
Good luck!
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Thanks for reading, Justin! NorCal would be interesting for sure. CityNerd (a great inspiration to me) just posted a video on youtube on his experiences in the area and with Caltrain that I can’t recommend enough. The city of Atherton forbidding sidewalks is mind-blowing to me.
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Atherton isn’t really a “city”. I went through there to go to Flea Street restaurant. It’s an enclave of “new money” and they don’t want people walking in front of their homes for security reasons. The professional burglary gangs from South America have already hit a few homes there.
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I live in the SF Bay Area, but your hike and perspectives of the hike really remind me of some urban studies classes I took in college, especially the days we visited and walked the area cities and suburbs looking for “ordinary” urban life and everyday places. I loved those little tours!
If you haven’t yet, consider looking up books by J.B. Jackson, as well as Prof. Paul Groth (UC Berkeley). I would recommend “Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J. B. Jackson” by Paul Groth as fairly good. It goes beyond California, but there is at least one chapter on SoCal vernacular landscapes that are similar to what you just walked through.
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