Doc Mishler last rode the coast road fifteen years ago with the two horses pictured on the right: Chief Free Spirit and Keep The Faith. At that time, Doc trotted from Montana to Washington D.C., by way of California, after surviving a cancer diagnosis and its treatment and reading the book, How Then Shall We … Continue reading Doc Mishler Rides Again!
Pescadero
Rockpile on the Coast Road
Share The Road
Matthew walked bow-legged with quick, northbound jerky strides up the hill above Pescadero State Beach. His blue nose female kept up alongside, but her grey head hung lowered, shoulders hustling, tongue panting. Matthew's back, young and strong, held his yellow backpack upright. It's top peeked high above Matthew's head. It's bottom strapped snug around Matthew's … Continue reading Share The Road
STOP :: Pescadero Road & CA SR1.
Santa Cruz-Pescadero Road
A Separate Place
A friend lent me his copy of A Separate Place, with text by Charles Jones and black-and-white photographs by Susan Friedman. Printed in 1974 by the Sierra Club with no reprints, A Separate Place describes California's coastal corridor of San Gregorio to Pescadero and its inland nooks of La Honda and Loma Mar. This is coastal southern … Continue reading A Separate Place
California Coast Trails – 100 years later
Not often one sees a horseman riding on Highway 1. Not often, as in, Never. Almost 100 years ago, J. Smeaton Chase, an Englishman who lived out the second half of his life in California, started from San Gabriel Valley, then rode south to San Diego, to then ride north to Mendocino. Published in 1913, … Continue reading California Coast Trails – 100 years later
The Coast Road 