UpTake on Duarte's Tavern - My FAV restaurant on the Coast

This past Saturday I was honored to run the last 20 miles of a 62 mile/100k ultramarathon with a friend of mine in the Marin Headlands. From where we were running I had views of the the northern California coastline that made me say numerous times “I cannot believe I live here!” and “I am so happy to be alive and running here”.  I LOVE where I live … THUS this month I am raising the roof to my pocket of heaven on the coast.

This month’s ‘UpTake’s’ are dedicated to the places along the Pacific Coast Highway from where I reside in Moss Beach to my favorite one block town of Pescadero. In Pescadero you will find this ‘UpTake.’

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My husband waits patiently for me to take a picture, on the side of the road near Jackson, Wyoming.

A road trip is my ideal vacation (a fact many of you readers are probably amply aware of by now – there’s some link love at the end of this entry that demonstrates this obsession of mine). Even if my husband and I are flying somewhere, I still manage to work some sort of a driving trip into our final destination. I appreciate the ability to actually travel the miles. and see the environment. You can discover so much more about the country you live in or are visiting, and the world you live in, when you’re driving it and not flying over it.

A road trip provides excellent opportunities for photography. I am constantly pestering my husband (who is the one who usually drives) to pull of to the side of the road so I can take a picture of something. Like the photo above, which was me taking a picture of him, while he was waiting patiently in the truck after I finished taking photos of the surrounding area.

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