Today, walked the Copeland Creek Trail in Rohnert Park from its beginning behind an apartment complex to Sonoma State University, where one finds lovely grounds and a Holocaust & Genocide Memorial with a grove of trees, a monument evocative of rail lines to a concentration camp, and a very fitting quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The pillar made of layers of glass lights up at night. #holocaust #genocide #neveragain #SonomaState #travel #California

June 4. Remember Tiananmen. Dictators, kings, fascists, it's all over for you. You just don't know it yet #freedom #humanrights

A brief stop at Point Arena on the way from #Mendocino back to Santa Rosa. A few tired, struggling characters, some mostly quiet businesses, a lovely theater, and a scent of difficult history. And this mural, which gives the passage through the tiny town a completely different dimension. #travel #California #CaliforniaCoast #MendocinoCounty

Postcards from a two-day visit to #Mendocino. I loved being here again, it's gorgeous and completely improbable that the town even still exists, especially since logging and related industry took a dive and drinking water is in limited supply. This was the first time I got the impression that some locals are sick and tired of people visiting their town and wish they would stay away. #California #CaliforniaCoast #travel

Daytrip from Santa Rosa to San Francisco yesterday turned out to be harsh and brittle. It's no longer the late-pandemic, dormant #SF from a couple of years ago. Now it's crowds shopping, crowds of entitled with their rotten dogs, crowds looking at their phones, tourist crowds, and digital filth, like the self-driving taxis and the corny ads for AI products everywhere. But it's still one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking places you could find yourself in, and good things remain. #california

Land and Water Coffee in Santa Rosa is still the best coffee house between San Francisco and Portland, OR. Great drinks and pastries, reasonable prices, friendly people. It's right downtown, on 4th Street by Old Courthouse Square. Don't miss it! #coffee #California #SantaRosa #espresso #pastries #thirdplace

...and did a little excursion to Fort Ross, which used to be an outpost of the Russian-American Company from 1812 until 1842. You can see partly reconstructed buildings, admire the giant Eucalyptus trees and the Pacific, and learn about the strange colonial culture of Russian officers, bureaucrats, and some scientists plus First People from #Alaska and the #California coast. It's at a dramatic, beautiful location on a bluff with very long views along the coast. #colonialism #Russia #history