by beachraven | May 30, 2020
Asilomar State Beach, California There’s a famous story of Christopher Columbus landing in the new world. Even though he anchored his ships in the bay in plain sight, the indigenous population couldn’t see them. They’d never seen a tall ship or...
by beachraven | May 24, 2020
Monterey Bay, Monterey, California I went out for my Sunday morning romp. It was chilly, the good kind that wakes you up and makes you want to push. I cruised through Monterey, passed the pier and boats, through Cannery Row, which always makes me rummage through my...
by beachraven | May 23, 2020
Via Paraiso Park, Monterey, California There’s a piece of audio equipment called a compressor, a powerful tool with many uses and a principal function of flattening the curve of an audio signal. Primarily, we use it to even out the dynamic range of a...
by beachraven | May 16, 2020
When I was a kid, we had a neighborhood bike shop named Pete’s. It was in a dirty white house on the corner with a mountain of bike frames piled up in the back yard and boxes and stacks of parts everywhere like a wild bike garden. The shop, a shed next to the house,...
by beachraven | May 9, 2020
Avila Beach, California This morning I peered out our bedroom window. The sun was angling across the yard, lighting up the trees and plants, all of it set against a blue sky and accented with splashes of cloud. It wasn’t the yard that struck me. It was the beauty of...
