My friend, who lives in San Francisco, told me about this awesome website a while back.
Weekend Sherpa
Find weekend activities from hikes, bikes, camping, water activities, and skiing for Northern California
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For reference, Sacramento is only about 90 miles from San Francisco. If that.
As she told me all about this great website, I Was like, "Send me the link!"
Her: Oh, but it's a Bay Area website.
Like I never go to the Bay Area!
Anyway, she was wrong. It is a Northern California website. Though it may be heavily focused on the Bay Area, there are plenty of other Northern California destinations highlighted in this newsletter.
(I just had to share because Sacramento has this reputation of this no-fun, "middle of nowhere" place to live. So I am perusing this website wondering what world my friend is living in - that I couldn't possibly get anything useful from this website. But, I get this all time. It's a wonder we can enjoy our sad existence in the middle of nowhere).
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Anyway, I just got an e-mail that they are also starting a Southern California newsletter.
So, I thought it was time to share the link again.
The interesting thing is though I don't think it is a goal of this newsletter to be frugal, but since there are so many hikes, bike paths, etc., mentioned, that it does give you a lot of frugal weekend ideas.
I just got some "whale watching from land" ideas - one of our favorite beaches has prime whale watching campsites (I had no idea). I like this idea after our last whale watching sea sick diaster. We really need to do some camping this year.
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