This place is a straight up brewery, and I loved it.  It’s got a tasting room that’s only open certain times, certain days of the week and doesn’t get overcrowded or too noisy.  The co-owner and bartender that particular afternoon Eli is a bright, friendly and generally awesome guy.  And you can see the vats [...]

“Have you ever spoken to a person not from this PLANET?!” a haggard, white-bearded 60 year old asked me and my new bar buddy outside the Sidelines Sports Bar in Arcata’s main plaza.  I replied that if I had I didn’t notice at the time, so the fellow continued “then how do you know anything, [...]

I guess it’s not surprising, but it’s way easier to write bad reviews than good ones.  So in case you didn’t get your fill… When the very friendly manager and owner lady came to my table to introduce herself and ask how things were, I didn’t want to just shit all over her establishment, so [...]

I’m sort of in a quandary writing this review.  It’s a hoppin’ place to hang out at, but their product is, well, god awful.  And to make matters worse, after seeing me snapping shots with my SLR and typing furiously on my smart phone, the owner came over and had a friendly chat with me [...]

Why oh why did the very first trailhead I hit along the Nathan B. Drury Scenic Byway have to have a sign about the redwoods outlasting the dinosaurs.  Sure, they tempered it with a John Steinbeck quote about his “silence and awe”, but I’d describe it more as fear and trembling. There are trees more [...]

When the first place you stop in a city to check your map has a guy in a doo rag with a greasy moustache start slink-walking across the street towards you asking “hey esse, can I…’help’…you with anything?” do what I did, drive.  Drug dealers don’t use the finger quote sign for the quote/unquote I [...]