By Julie Horner There is a secret spot in the forest near home in Boulder Creek. Castaways for the holidays by choice, we pack a feast and our musical instruments and head northwest a few miles on a narrow byway badly pitted and pocked but all to ourselves above Big Basin. Conspicuously the sole vehicle in the pullout, we scurry…
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By Julie Horner Live music has made a cautious comeback in Santa Cruz County and evenings are full to brimming. Felton Music Hall and Michael’s on Main have flung their doors wide to offer distanced dining with a show weekend nights. Other venues with outdoor spaces like the Summit House on Highway 17, Redwood Pizzeria in Felton, and Davenport Roadhouse…
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By Julie Horner Long weeks of not knowing. We found ourselves umbilically attached to our apps, Cal Fire heat maps and Zonehaven, FlightRadar24, PulsePoint, CalTopo and many more. From hotel rooms, RV and tent sites, the living rooms of friends and family, homesteads and familiar haunts seemed to be gone one minute then saved the next. When roadblocks were retracted,…
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By Julie Horner Well not so fast. Some of us had just sidled up to Joe’s newly refurbished bar…seats away from each other and mostly masked…not quite back to “normal” but doggone we could go down and get our pint and say hello to those scattered along the bar’s storied length and dial up a tune on the juke with…
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