So much that I’ll go so far as to link to this item by that other outdoors writer named Tom. Stand on top of Angel Island even once and you will realize how a special place can get inside your…
Angel Island State Park
Latest hike: Angel Island State Park
by tmangan • July 15, 2007 • 2 Comments
Summary of the price tag for Sunday’s jaunt to Angel Island State Park: Parking in Tiburon: $11 Ferry to the island: $13 Golden Gate Bridge toll: $5 Five gallons of gas for 120-mile round trip: $16.25 (Note to self: find…
Hot day at Angel Island
by tmangan • July 26, 2005 • 0 Comments
Operative adjective of the past few days has been "scalding." Well, scalding by our standards. It’s not like the brutal 95/95 (degrees/humidity) that we’ve known in Tampa or the insufferable 103/92 we’ve known in Peoria, but even when there are…
Touched by an Angel
by tmangan • June 5, 2005 • 1 Comment
Angel Island is this hunk of rock poking up out of the middle of San Francisco Bay. The island’s a state park now, but over the years it’s been home to an anti-aircraft missile base, a prisoner of war camp…