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If I live in the South Bay or closer to Santa Cruz / Monterey, I’d visit this magical place much more often. But since it takes an almost 2-hour drive to get here from where I am now, I’d have to plan carefully and am only making this trip for the first, and possibly the…
017. The Castle Of No Return (El Castillo De Irás Y No Volverás) [Nguyen: a more literal translation of this title would be: The Castle Where You’d Go But Will Not Return.] Once upon a time there was a fisherman who went to sea everyday in a small boat [to search for food] to feed…
高山流水 (Gāo shān liú shuǐ) (0) lit. high mountain and flowing stream (1) fig. intimate and understanding friend (2) sublime musical composition In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Yu Boya, who was well-versed in the musical arts, had excellent guqin skill, and was a famous guqin master at the time….
It had been a while since I was last in Napa Valley, so I thought it’d be fun to paddle by downtown and beyond, exploring the upper stretches of the Napa River past the Oxbow Preserve which I reached the last time I paddled the river. Plus there was a $5/bag book sale at the…
016. The Sweet Doll (La Muñeca De Dulce) Once upon a time there was a king who had only one daughter. The monarchs and the princess used to take walks around the palace almost every afternoon, and in one of those strolls they ran into a gypsy woman who offered to read the princess her…
感恩圖報 (Gǎn ēn tú bào) – Being grateful and seeking to repay the kindness In the Spring and Autumn Period, the general Wu Zixu from the State of Wu led troops to attack the State of Zheng. The ruler of of Zheng, Duke Ding (鄭定公), said: “Whoever can make Wu Zixu turn back and not…
September 17th was Shoreline Cleanup Day across the SF Bay Area. The idea is simple: there’s a lot of trash on our beaches, in our estuaries, along our shorelines, etc. and to give wildlife a chance we’d need to help pick up and put some of that away. There were multiple volunteer sites through out…
015. The Savior Calandra Lark (La Calandria Salvadora) A man who had a family that was the envy of everyone due to their affection for one another and the good directions of their affairs, had the misfortune of losing his wife and was left a widower with an older young boy and a twelve-year old…
負隅頑抗 (Fù yú wán kàng) (1) To use the terrain [to one’s advantage] and put up a stubborn resistance (2) To put up a stubborn resistance From https://www.chinesewords.org/idiom/show-869.html In the Warring States Period, there was one year when the State of Qi suffered from a famine, with many people dying from starvation. When Mengzi‘s student…
Technically speaking, the harbor is located in El Granada, a village that sits about 5 miles away from the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. Arriving there at around 10:20 am on Saturday, I had no problem finding parking in the C lot. In fact, there were plenty of spaces to go about, and unless…