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Home in the hills
I wouldn't mind walking in my front door to see this view. Oak and olive trees, a sprawling canyon, hawks and coyotes. Not too bad. And it can be yours for just under 1.2 million dollars!
It's in the foothills above Claremont, California, where I grew up. This is a town where drivers wave and swing a wide arc around pedestrians in the street. Where a nice lady doing her gardening might offer a runner a glass of water in the mid-day heat. Where the stick-figure cyclists painted onto the bike lanes in the road wear stick-figure helmets. Where you can grow tomatoes in January. Where there is always, always somewhere to park.
But then there are days, like Sunday, as I headed back north, when you can't see the 10,000' mountains looming over the valley because the smog is opaque. That's why I always come back to San Francisco.
October 31, 2006 4:37 PM
5 bathrooms? SWEET!