Rik's Reads

CategoryBooks
* • I Am The Grand Canyon
Classics • Farenheit 451
• Beowolf
• Catcher in the Rye
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Grapes of Wrath
• Neuromancer
• Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe
• To Kill a Mockingbird
Geeky • Death March (Surviving Doomed Projects)
• Executable UML: A Foundation for Model Driven Architecture
• Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions
• Just XML
• Using Perl 5 for Web Programming
General • The Bastard Brigade
• Tails of the City
Humor • The Joy of Work
• Owt, Nowt and Summat A Toast to All Tykes
Must Read • The Code Book
• Grapes of Wrath
• I Am The Grand Canyon
• The Silicon Boys and their valley of dreams
• To Kill a Mockingbird
Must Read • A Confederacy of Dunces
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Relaxing • Cannery Row
• Into Thin Air
Sci-Fi • Artemis
• The Martian
• Ready Player One
Sci-Fi • Farenheit 451
• Neuromancer
Techie • Alice in Quantumland
• The Code Book
• How to Invent Everything
• This Book Isn't Safe
Techie • Backroom Boys; the secret return of the british boffin
tbd • The Crystal Cave
• The Santa Cruz Trailbook
  The Santa Cruz Trailbook    
The Santa Cruz Trailbook
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This is a great book for people living (or intending to visit) the bay area, who like to go hike, bike, picnic and camp.

I've bought several books in the past, but this one covers a lot more of the trails in the area and with better detail. It tells you if trails are open to bikes and/or horses, talks about the camping facilities, details how long a walk you will have and the types of things you can expect to see out there.

There are also little sections on the local history, how the geology stuff works and many more useful snippets of info.

Definately the best book I've found for picking places to go walk, but then, it is somewhat targetted to the area where I live.

Incidentally, I found this little gem at my Sunday afternoon Cowboy Coffeeshop The General Store at San Gregorio. What can I say, the bluegrass band weren't up to much that particular Sunday, so I was looking for something else to occupy me while I drank my Kalua coffee.




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