San Francisco and Fairfield were great, but I gotta keep moving. West I went to a scheduled stop in Petaluma. Petaluma is the home of TWiT.tv. People often ask me how I got so tech savvy. I owe a lot of that savviness to a man named Leo Laporte. I was watching a friends house in 2000 when I stumbled upon a show called The Screen Savers on ZDtv, which would then shortly change to TechTV. The Screen Savers had just enough info to make you think yet entertaining enough to keep you around. Fast forward 17 years and TechTV is no more and Leo has his own internet based TV channel called TWiT.tv. Leo was out this week on vacation, but I stopped by the studio anyways.
If you watch one of the main shows on the network this is the set they use.
It was very cool to see first hand what the behind the scenes view was.
I even got to hang out with John (jammerb) while he worked his magic on FLOSS Weekly. This show is done over Skype into the studio where John mixes it live and sends it out over the air. Very cool to see the maestro at work.
I had about a 5.5 hour journey after that to get to a destination in the redwoods, along the PCH as far as I could of course. The difficulty of these roads is right there with the roads I experienced in Colorado except the drop off the edge would have been less than 100 feet mostly, and there were guard rails on 99% of the corners. Colorado doesn't like guard rails.
I made it to my camping spot and got set up in record time. I am getting better at this and am thinking camping may need to happen more often when I get back home. I don't know if you can't tell how big the trees are here, but in real life, they are the biggest trees I have seen by far. The further north I got, they bigger they got. In the camping area, there are remains of the ancient trees interspersed with the giant trees. The ancient trees are easily 3 to 4 times the size of the larger standing trees.
Maybe that scale will help.
I again relaxed in the hammock and looked to the sky to see the very high up canopy. I bet the view from up there is amazing too.