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Sacramento Walking Sticks
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President's Greeting
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
~ Jim Rohn
counties to walk is challenging, ex-1
I hilarating, and all part of the fun.
Greetings,
I To those of you who are new members of the Sacramento Walking I
Sticks, let me say, "Welcome!" And
I to the rest of us Sticks members, let
me say, "Welcome back!" At one
I time, we were all motivated for our
own reasons to join the Sticks, and |
many of us have stayed on to become committed members. We've I
plugged in to something to which
you can't attach a price tag~we're a
community of motivated walkers of
all sizes, shapes, colors, ages, and
ethnicities. We walk for our health
and to exercise; we walk to be social
and meet people, to discover new
places in our home city and beyond,
and to give our life purpose. For
many of us, the bottom line is that |
our walks are just plain fun!
For example, I need Imperial I
| County, and there's a one-time-only
Holtville walk planned on Sat, Feb
7th. I'll be flying to San Diego, renting a car to drive 2 hrs to Holtville to
I walk, have lunch, drive back to San
Diego, and fly home. Is it worth the
I money and time? Heck, yeah! I'll be
doing it with
my walking
friends, and it'll be an adventure to
talk about for months to come. Plus,
it's another stamp in my book It's
the incentive program that works
and keeps many of us motivated. To
learn more about the programs,
check out the Sticks website, or ask
any of us who are stamping those
books to find out why we're doing
it
Since our last newsletter, the Sticks I
My personal goal this year is to continue to finish up my 49'er Miner I participated in the Time to
Walk 10-11-12-13-14 event which
California County booklet that ends
in December. When working on | was hosted by clubs all over the
USA. We had 39 people show up on
these Special Programs, I've discovI
a sunny, crisp morning on Dec
ered that the thrill of the hunt is I
13th,
and it was great fun. (Editor's
more gratifying to me than actually I
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See Theresa Ihara's photo on |
completing them. The planning of I
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where and when I'll go to these [
President
Barbara
Nuss
Vice President
Secretary
Gail Samcoff
Carol Addy
Treasurer
Ana Maria
Sacramento Walking Sticks • P.O. Box 277303
Garza
Our annual Christmas party was
I well attended, despite one of the
worst rain storms that same day.
Many people were unable to drive to
the party because of the storm, but,
for those who did come, it was great
fun (thank you Heidi Foster and |
j crew).
Our New Year's Eve/Day events I
I were another huge success with 399
I people in attendance. Thanks to
Nancy Alex for the wonderful routes
I she designed. Everyone thoroughly
enjoyed the sights they saw along
the way. The start location worked
out beautifully because of the space
it provides and all of its amenities,
and our Club is financially stable |
enough to pay the fee they charge.
Thank you to each and every one of I
you who volunteered your time and |
talents to make these events as successful as they were. The food you j
brought truly made this a New
Year's many will never forget because it gave us a chance to visit and
get to know one another before and |
after our walks.
Circle Saturday, March 14th on your I
calendars for the next Traditional
Event we're hosting. The Sticks will
Publicity
Barbara
Nuss
Newsletter
Kris Ericson-Cano
• Sacramento, California 95827
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President's Greeting (cont.)
be celebrating Pi Day on 3.14 at
Marie Callender's on Sunrise Blvd
and Madison Ave. Come on Pi Day,
pay $3.14 for Volkswalk credit and,
after your walk, go inside and have a
slice of pie. It just doesn't get much
better than that
Call or write anytime with questions
and comments. I love to hear/read
about your walking experiences and
hope to see you out on the trails in
the year ahead
~Barbara
ATTENTION STICKS MEMBERS:
WE WANT MORE OF YOU ON THESE PAGES
T n our ongoing endeavor to im1 prove the No Sweat Gazette toward making it more interesting
and appealing to all, we ask for
more participation from you members. We think that this newsletter,
to be its very best, has to be a folksy
and fun publication, created by and
for Walking Sticks members, with
more and more of your individual
personalities
and
experiences
spread throughout its pages. But we
can't make that happen unless you
submit something to us.
So how about lending us a
hand? We're looking for a photo or
two and/or a paragraph or two of a
recent walking experience you'd like
to share with all of us. Or if you've
been on a fascinating walking trip,
write a story, or we'll help you write
a story about i t
And you can participate without
submitting anything, too. If there's
Kris Ericson-Cano, Editor, sackris(5)gmail.com
something you like or don't like
about the newsletter, let us know. If
you have suggestions for improvement or something you'd like to see
in the newsletter, let us know. Our
email addresses are below. Go
ahead and fill up our inboxes with
your submissions, questions, comments, and suggestions. After all,
this is your newsletter, so please
help us make it the best it can
be. We thank you in advance for
your enthusiastic participation.
John McLaughlin, Submissions Editor, kaiajohn(5>aol,com
The View From the Other Seat...
by Jean Lucas
O
ne of the wonderful things about
walking with AVA clubs is
meeting other walkers and experiencing life beyond the around-town adventures we enjoy. In the last issue of
the No-Sweat Gazette, Joanne Jensen
told of our quest (hers and mine) to be
able to hike difficult trails without
pain. I'd like to expand a bit on our
story. Joanne and I arranged to hike
on the Appalachian Trail in 4 day-long
segments. This was a supported hike,
which made it possible to experience
the trail without carrying a heavy
pack.
Joanne rented a car and picked me up
at the hotel where I had stayed in Arlington, Virginia. She drove us to the
conference center in southern Maryland, where we stayed for five nights
and ate all of our meals except the
lunches we enjoyed on the trail. As
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she wrote, she hiked two of the four
days and I hiked each day.
These hikes were, in reality, much
more difficult than I had imagined. I
love to hike and can walk six miles
easily and ten miles with little difficulty. Many of you know me as a
"fast" walker. Well, I was not able to
keep up with a group of younger, fit,
fast hikers, who have not experienced
recent injuries and hike regularly
on trails that are mostly rocks
and roots. I did cover the distance,
but came dragging in at the end of the
pack on the hardest day (defined as up
and down hills on the Virginia
"rollercoaster") and the longest day (a
hike of ten miles, not counting the
access trail, on the Appalachian Trail).
At the end of these hikes, I was
greeted by my own personal cheerleader, who assured me how well I had
done, and etc. What a boost to my
sagging morale! Without the support
and encouragement of my AVA walking buddy, I might not have returned
for the next day's adventure.
So,
cheerleader and chauffeur, thank you,
Joanne, for accompanying me on this
adventure.
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Starting the New Year Out with a Bang!
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The Walking Sticks annual New Year's Eve and New Year's Day event was a huge success with beautiful weather,
great food, and an outstanding participation. There were 183 walkers on New Year's Eve and 216 walkers on New
Year's Day for a total of 399 happy participants, many of whom are pictured on this and the following two pages.
New Year's Eve
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New Year's Day Dogs and Their People
Sacramento Walking Sticks • The No Sweat Gazette
Our Featured YRE Coordinator*
W
hile I was sipping coffee at
Bella Bru and chatting with
Heidi Foster, this issue's Featured
Year Round Event [YRE) Point of
Contact, the time flew by. As any of
you who have walked with her
know, Heidi is a genuine delight. She
is warm, interesting, and easy to be
around. She enjoys a full life, and
she adheres to the philosophy of
truly living each day.
walk, and another walk was rerouted two days before the event to
accommodate an archery tournament near the bike trail. And the
Folsom Historic walk had to be rerouted and the meeting location
moved shortly before the CVA Convention because construction that
was promised to be done in time
wasn't.
Heidi first heard of the Sacramento
Walking Sticks from a brochure she
picked up at a Cal Expo Health Fair
booth manned by Bud and Jill Simmons from the Vaca Valley
Volksporters Club. She kept the brochure by her computer for a year
before deciding to join a walk. That
walk turned out to be the Hot
Walkin' Nights Arden Park Walk on
a 90+° day. Undiscouraged by the
heat, she joined the club in 2004.
She has now completed over 325
events and 3,000 kilometers.
After
Barbara
Nuss
had
been contacted by willing-sponsor
New Balance in the Roseville Fountains shopping center, she suggested
that Heidi develop some walks in
Roseville
to incorporate the
malls and the surrounding areas.
Heidi
initially
resisted, believing that there wasn't
that much for walkers to enjoy in
the area. Much to her surprise and
to our benefit, she discovered many hidden treasures around
the area that include wetlands,
Maidu Indian artifacts, and the Johnson-Springview Park
As her fellow walkers will laughingly point out, Heidi has a reputation for bad luck on her routes: The
Roseville Mall burned the week
of the roll-out of the Mall-to-Mall
Committee duties for the convention
and relying on information from
experienced
convention attendees, Heidi was told that few people
would show up for the closing
event and the barbeque at William
Land Park. Instead, four hundred
people showed up for both events.
At the Meet-and-Greet, the hungry
walkers quickly consumed all the
food the hotel estimated they would
need, leaving Heidi to frantically
send
volunteers
to
the
nearby Costco for anything they
could grab.
Undiscouraged by these experiences, Heidi has served as vice
president and president of the
Walking
Sticks.
For
five
years, she has smoothly and efficiently managed the registration
process for the well-attended New
Year's events.
No
matter
what
roadblocks arise, though, Heidi prevails.
While working full time at her day
job, she volunteered to"help" with
the Social Committee for the 2007
National American Volkssport Association (AVA) Convention. That
group, tasked with many events,
subsequently morphed into a committee of one: Heidi. Adding to
the challenges, Heidi's mother
passed one week before the convention. She spent the days with her
family
and
the
evenings until midnight or later on her
computer, working on the convention details.
Continuing to perform her Social
Heidi is now retired from the State
of California where she worked the
last twenty-seven years for the
Prison Industry Authority in an office located outside of Folsom
Prison. She now spends much of her
time babysitting her two daughters' children, aged two, three, and
four. She recently enjoyed listening to her grandchildren howl with
the wolves on an outing to the Folsom Zoo.
As a volunteer at the Casa Garden
Restaurant that provides yearround fundraising for the Sacramento Children's Home in Curtis
Park,
Heidi serves on the
Board as Vice President for Special
Events, including weddings and anniversary celebrations. She suggested the Casa for the Sticks annual
Christmas party and it's been a perfect match ever since.
The YRE (Year Round Event) coordinators work with local establishments to keep walk boxes and they periodically
service the walk boxes to ensure they have directions, maps, sign-in sheets, envelopes, and so forth. Many times, the
YRE Coordinator suggests and helps develop the routing for the YRE along with preparing the maps and directions.
They ensure any modifications are identified and made to the routing when circumstances change such as walk box
location or road closures.
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Our Featured YRE Coordinator (cont.)
In addition to walking, Heidi enjoys reading mysteries and literature, and traveling. She just returned from Turkey, and she
has visited Chile, Argentina, Italy,
France, England (walking with the
Roads Scholars in the Cotswalds and
Cornwall), Canada and Amsterdam
(traveling on a boat with thirteen
women from Amsterdam to Bruge,
Belgium). She has also completed
AVA walks in several states on a
Tater Tour from Atlanta to New Orleans with a stop in Orlando for the
2013 National AVA convention.
Heidi intends to enjoy one big trip
annually with every other year in a
foreign country.
Heidi traces her love for traveling to
the nomadic life she lived as a child
when her father was in the Air
Force. She was born in El Paso,
Texas, at Fort Bliss, and she lived for
two years near Tokyo, Japan. She is,
however, the only one of seven siblings with the traveling bug. Her
love of foreign travel may go even
further back to her grandfather who
was a Methodist missionary in India,
where her mother was born.
Currently, Heidi is POC for the Historic Folsom walk and bike and for
three walks out of the New Balance
store in Roseville at the Fountains
shopping center. And not only is she
POC for all these routes, but she also
single-handedly designed them all,
which even more illustrates the
great amount of time and effort she
has contributed to the Walking
Sticks and our walks. Thanks, Heidi!
As Heidi continues to enjoy an active and fascinating life, we can be
grateful that she chooses to share
her gifts and enthusiasm with the
Walking Sticks. May we all learn
from her to truly live each day fully.
Time-to-Walk (10:1112/13/14) & Sutter Creek (12/6/14)
By Theresa Ihara
Sacramento Walking Sticks
• The No Sweat Gazette
CALIFORNIA IS VOLCANO-LAND
By Nancy Alex
D
o you covet that beautiful patch
for the Volcanoes special
event? You can find every volcano
walk you need and more right here
in California!
San Luis Obispo has two pinnacles
visible from the walk. They are very
pointy, triangular-shaped mountains. The lava from the old volcanoes eroded away, but rock crystallized in the necks of the old volcanoes, and that's what created the
pinnacles. Geologists call them intrusives, and yes, they count for the
program
If you take Highway 1 from San Luis
Obispo to Morro Bay, you see a
whole chain of pinnacles, including
Morro Rock in the Bay. Morro Rock
forms the centerpiece of the Morro
Bay walk along the ocean. Cool
breezes will delight you, as well as a
fresh seafood lunch.
Then over to the eastern side of the
Sierra Range, drive north on U.S.
395 to Mammoth Lakes, and walk in
the Devil's Postpile National Monument. Mammoth Mountain is an
active volcano, and at the Postpile
you will walk over old lava flow. A
lovely waterfall awaits you at the
turnaround point. This is a remote
registration walk, so register a couple weeks before you go.
A little further north on U.S. 395
takes you to Lee Vining where you
can do the Mono Lake walk. There
are several volcanoes near Mono
Lake, including one peak in the lake
as an island. This is also a remote
registration walk.
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Then, walk another remote registration event at Lake Winnemucca
(listed as Markleeville.] Continue
north on 395 to the junction with
Highway 89, and take 89 north and
west, passing Markleeville. Go left at
the junction with Highway 88. Take
88 to Carson Pass. There is a small
ranger station and a parking lot at
the pass, and this area serves as the
trailhead. On this lovely alpine
walk, you can see several sparkling
lakes, a multitude of wildflowers,
and 3 lava cap areas. Doing the 10K
will take you over one of them.
From Carson Pass, go back to Highway 89, and turn left to go to Lake
Tahoe. Take 89 past South Lake
Tahoe for walks to see the ancient
volcanoes at north Lake Tahoe.
Take the Tahoma walk, or go to Tahoe City for the Lake Forest walk to
see Mt Tallac with it's lava cap. You
can also take the Truckee River Trail
out of Tahoe City to see Mt Pluto,
Mt Rose, and information about
Alder Hill. Those Tahoe Trail Trekkers aren't satisfied with all those
walks. They also plan to host a traditional walk at Squaw Peak in July.
Slip over the border briefly, via Interstate 80, to Reno, Nevada to the
walkbox for the Sparks, Nevada
walk. At the marina, you can see Mt.
Rose, an old volcano.
Back in California, continue west on
1-80 to Highway 65 near Newcastle
or Rocklin. Take 65 north to Marysville and Yuba City. Both towns are
very close to the Sutter Buttes, a
volcanic area in the middle of California's Central Valley, known as the
world's smallest mountain range.
These volcanoes are very visible
from both the Marysville walk and
the Yuba City walk
You can continue going west from
Yuba City and Marysville on Highway 20 to 1-5. A little way south on I
-5 , and the Sutter Buttes are also
faintly visible from the Zamora
walk
Continuing west on Highway 20
from 1-5, pass Clear Lake and it's
active volcanic field. Mt Konocti is
the most visible volcanic peak at the
lake. You can just barely see it from
the 11K walk at Upper Lake.
Back to 1-5, go north to Redding for
two more volcano walks. The Lema
Ranch walk offers you a good view
of Mt. Shasta, a beautiful volcanic
peak The walk along the Sacramento River offers you a view of Mt
Lassen to the northwest Mt. Lassen
exploded from 1914 through 1917,
and is the only volcano beside Mt St.
Helens in the contiguous 48 states
to explode during the 20 Century.
th
That wraps up our volcano tour of
California. Better order that book,
now!
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Volcano Walks In California
- - Sparks
Redding
Marysville & Yuba City
Truckee River
Tahoe City- Lake Forest
Tahoma
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Sacramento Walking Sticks • The No Sweat Gazette
The San Antonio River Walk,
A Must-Do On Any Walker's Bucket List
By Kris Ericson-Cano
In the early 1990s, the visionaries of
San Antonio, Texas, began developing a "network of multi-use hike and
bike trails that wind through natural
landscapes along San Antonio
creeks."* Currently, 46 miles of
trails are open to the public. The
ultimate vision is to encircle the entire city with over 130 miles of
trails.
John and Kaia McLaughlin and my
husband Vince and I are not waiting
for the "ultimate vision." In December, we found ourselves in San Antonio just a few days apart Separately, we had the pure joy of walking one of the most scenic of the
completed trails, the River Walk
South trail. John and Kaia were
staying downtown, and they walked
the trail to Mission Concepcion and
took the bus back to downtown. Vince and I drove to Mission
San Jose, took the bus downtown,
and walked back to the mission.
The River Walk trail provides, as
John aptly describes it, a "scenic,
challenging, clean, safe, inspiring,
artsy, historical, mesmerizing, educational, enchanting, exciting, invigorating, and just plain fun" way
to spend a day in this historic Texas
city as you will see in the photos
below.
*http://www.sanantonio.gov/
parksandrec / greenway.trails.aspx
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Texas Wanderers AVA River Walk Flyer: http://walktx.Org/TexasWanderers/2014/Riverwalk2014.pdf
The official website for the San Antonio River Walk: http://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/
Full map of the River Walk:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/parscale-files/Riverwalk/SARIP-Full-Map-Lightpdf
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Upcoming Walks
February 2015
Walk
Location
Feb 3-Tue, 9:30 am
Sacramento - Capitol
(Book Club)
Lodi
Feb 4-Wed, 5:45 pm
Sacramento - East Sac to Elmhurst
Feb 5-Thu, 9:15 am
Sacramento - Pocket Area (Bicycle)
Feb5-Thu, 10:00 am
Roseville - Mall to Mall
Feb7-Sat, 9:30am
Feb 10 -Tue, 9:00 am
Davis - Southeast Tunnels &
Bridges
Sacramento - Midtown/East Sac
Feb 10 - Tue, 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Sticks Membership Meeting
Feb 11 - Wed, 5:45 pm
Citrus Heights - Stock Ranch
Feb 12-Thu, 9:00 am
Elk Grove - Charlie Fowble Memorial
Vallejo - San Francisco Bay Flyway
Festival
7
Feb 17-Tues, 9:00 am
Sacramento - Ashton Park
Feb 18-Wed, 5:45 pm
Fair Oaks - Historic
Feb 19-Thu, 9:15 am
Feb 19-Thu, 9:30 am
Sacramento - American River
(Bicycle)
Vacaville - Historic
Feb 21 & 22 - Sat & Sun, 8:00 am
Ripon - Almond Festival
Feb 24 - Tue, 9:00 am
Auburn
Feb 25-Wed, 5:45 pm
Sacramento - Arden Park
Feb 26 - Thurs, 9:30 am
Davis - University
Sandman Motel
236 Jibbom
McDonald's
200 West Lodi Avenue
Les Baux Bakery and Bistro
5090 Folsom Blvd
The UPS Store
7485 Rush River Dr.
New Balance Shoe Store
1198 Roseville Parkway
Fountains Shopping Center
Common Grounds Coffee
2171 CowellBlvd.
Les Baux Bakery and Bistro
5090 Folsom
Arthur F. Turner Community Library
1212 Merkley Avenue
West Sacramento 95691
SAS Shoe Store
7247 Greenback Lane
Mc Donald's
2733 Elk Grove Blvd.
Mare Island
Building 223
200 Connolly Street
Starbucks Coffee
610 Watt Ave
Fair Oaks Coffee House & Deli
10223 Fair Oaks
Sandman Motel
236 Jibboom Street
Diggers Deli
876 Alamo
Ripon Recreation Area
Parallel Avenue & Reynolds Drive
Flour Garden Bakery,304-C Elm
Street
Starbucks Coffee
4301 Arden Way
615 Second Street
Feb 28 - Sat, TBA
Roseville - NW Roseville
TBA
Feb 1 - Sun, 1:00 pm
Feb 14 & 15 - Sat & Sun, 9:00 am
Please Note: The Sticks monthly meeting is February 10th, the second Tuesday of February rather than the usual second Thursday. The Thursday schedule w i l l resume in March
unless otherwise notified. Check the weekly walk alerts for the most up-to-date information regarding the meetings and walks. If you are not currently receiving the walk alerts,
please email Barbara Nuss, nussb(5>surewest.net to be added to the mailing list.
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Upcoming Walks (cont.)
March 2015
Walk
Location
Mar 3 - Tue, 9:30 am
San Francisco- High Lights
(Book Club)
Marysville - Historic
Mar 4 - Wed, 5:45 pm
Roseville - Mall to Mall
Mar 5-Thu, 9:15 am
Mar 5 - Thu, 9:30 am
Folsom - Humbug Willow Creek
(Bicycle)
Jackson - Historic
Mar 7 - Sat, 8:00 am
Rohnert Park
Mar 10-Tue, 9:00 am
Sacramento - Sac State
Mar 11-Wed, 5:45 pm
Sacramento - American River
Mar 12-Thu, 9:00 am
Sacramento - Capital
Musee Mechanique
Pier 45, Shed A
CVS Drug Store
906 E St.
New Balance Shoe Store
1198 Roseville Parkway
Fountains Shopping Center
Karen's Bakery and Cafe
705 Gold Lake, Suite 340
Best Western Amador Inn
200 S. Hwy 49
Keith Garlock-State Farm Insurance
Agent
6201 State Farm Drive
Starbucks Coffee
1420 65th St.
Big Lots
8700 La Riviera Drive
Sandman Motel
236 Jiboom
Elk Grove
(location to be announced)
Marie Calender's
5525 Sunrise Blvd
Big Lots
8700 La Riviera Drive
Starbucks Coffee
8868 Bond Road
Starbucks Coffee
4301 Arden Way
New Balance Shoe Store
1198 Roseville Parkway
Fountains Shopping Mall
Lamppost Pizza
1260 Lake Blvd.
CVS Drug Store
906 E St.
La Bou Restaurant
849 Jefferson 101
The UPS Store
7485 Rush River Dr.
First Street Cafe
440 First Street
Digger's Deli, 876 Alamo, Vacaville, 95688
Mar 1-Sun, 10:00 am
Mar 12 - Thu, 7:00 pm
Mar 14 - Sat, 9:00 am
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Sticks Membership Meeting
Citrus Heights - Pi Day!
Mar 17 - Tue, 9:15 am
Sacramento - American River
Mar 18-Wed, 5:45 pm
Elk Grove - East Elk Grove Recreational Trails
Sacramento - Margaret Thornburg
Memorial (Bicycle)
Roseville - Roseville to Rocklin
Romp
Mar 19-Thu, 9:15 am
7)
Mar 19-Thu, 10:00 am
Mar 21 & 22 - Sat & Sun, 8:00 am
Davis - West Davis
Mar 24 - Tue, 9:30 am
Yuba City - Historic,
Mar 25-Wed, 5:45 pm
West Sacramento - Clarksburg
Branch Line Trail
Sacramento - Pocket Area
Mar 26 - Thu, 9:00 am
Mar 28 - Sat, 8:00 am
Mar 29-Sun, 10:00 am
Mar 31 - Tue, 10:00 am
February/March 2015
Benicia - Benicia State Recreation
Area
Vacaville - Joe Sutter/Jo Hefner
Memorial - Lagoon Valley - Solano
County
(Book Club)
Roseville - New Balance Fountains
New Balance Shoe Store
1198 Roseville Parkway
Fountains Shopping Mall
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Walking Book Club
Priscilla Fife, Book Walk Coordinator
916.616.6003 • [email protected]
Sunday, February 1,2015
Sunday, March 1,2015
Time: 1:00 pm
Time: 10:00 am
Walk: Capitol Walk
Walk: San Francisco - Highlights
Start Point: Sandman Motel - 236
Jibboom, Sacramento, 95814
(Note: We'll go by the Railroad Museum)
Start Point: Musee Mecanique Pier 45, Shed A end of Taylor off
Jefferson. (This may change as the
Bay Bandits are currently trying to
relocate the walk box)
Book: The Octopus: A Story of
California by Frank Norris
Published 1901, historical fiction Wheat Farmers vs Railroad Barons
in the San Joaquin Valley - Tulare
County.
From
Wikipedia:
The OctoA Story of California
pus: A Story of
California is a
1901
novel
by Frank Norris
and
was
meant to be the
first part of an
uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of
the Wheat It describes the wheat
industry in California, and the conflicts between wheat growers and a
railway company. Norris was inspired to write the novel by
the Central Pacific Railroad and
the Mussel Slough Tragedy. In the
novel he depicts the tensions between the railroad, the ranchers and
the ranchers' League. The book emphasized the control of "forces"—
such as growing wheat and the
power of railroad monopolies—
over individuals. Some editions of
the work give the subtitle as alternately, A California Story.
The Octopus
Ten copies are available at the Sacramento Public Library. Also the
novel is available online in paperback, hardcover, audio CD, and Kindle and Nook formats.
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mate justice.
There is an interesting article about
the
author
at:
http://
www.sfgate.com/entertainment/
article/The-biggest-selling-authoryou-ve-never-heard-of2816943.php
Book: The 13th Juror by John Lescroart
Ten print copies are available at the
Sacramento Public Libaray. The
novel is also available in large print
and audio CD. On Amazon the novel
is available in hard copy, paperback,
audio DS, and Kindle format
Legal Thriller set in San Francisco.
Sunday, March 29,2015
From the author's website:
THE 13TH JUROR
New York Times
Bestseller
In The 13th Juror,
Dismas
Hardy,
l a w y e r /
investigator, undertakes the defense of Jennifer
Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as
well as her first husband, who had
died nine years earlier from an apparent drug overdose. While preparing his case, Hardy learns that
both of Jennifer's husbands had
physically abused her. But Jennifer
refuses to allow a defense that presumes her guilt She is not guilty,
she claims. Hardy is now driven to
seek an alternative truth a jury can
believe. As the trial progresses, the
complex truth itself begins to
change, to bend, to fade in and out of
focus as the clock keeps ticking on
Jennifer's fate, until there seems
only one person left to convince, and
she is "the 13th juror"—the judge.
The 13th Juror is a stunning and
suspenseful novel of moral ambiguity, of good intentions, bad judgments and the tortuous path to ulti-
Time: 10:00 am
Walk: Vacaville - Joe Sutter/Jo
Hefner Memorial - Lagoon Valley Solano County
Start Point: Digger's Deli, 876
Alamo, Vacaville, 95688
Book: Tracks: A Woman's Solo
Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robin Davidson
Review from Amazon.com: Why
Robyn
does
Davidson
walk
1,700
miles
across the Australian desert accompanied by four
camels? Tracks is
a quintessential
adventure, yet the
adventurer's relationship to her
own quest is ambivalent and nuanced. She never directly explains
her motivations, but it's clear that
she's been driven to the starkness
and isolation of the desert by something so personally powerful that
she may not understand it herself.
Ironically, when she accepts the financial backing of the National Geographic, her private "trial by fire" is
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doused by the popular concept of
romantic independence she represents to others: "I was beginning to
see it as a story for other people,
with a beginning and an ending."
She feels pursued and invaded by
the photographer assigned to follow
her, by the people who intercept her
with questions and interpretations.
Yet her ultimate confrontations are
with her own rage and desperation.
H
i fellow men walkers. I have
attended many Sticks walks,
especially during the week, when I
was the only man in the group, and
I'll bet you've all had the same experience.
Of course, I'm sure we all agree that
it is always a great pleasure to walk
with all the women, each of them
delightful and gorgeous in her own
right But nevertheless, it can feel a
bit awkward to stride down the
streets, a solitary man in a parade of
women, and it can be mighty perplexing for just one of us to try to
keep up with the trends of conversation that naturally prevail amid
groups of women.
And then there is that nagging gender guilt that we lone men always
feel at each restroom stop where the
always-patient women, some of
them fidgeting with bladder urgency, line up and wait single-file in
front of their door while, like privileged royalty, we men saunter into
the other door to visit that private
space reserved yet undeserved just
for us.
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with the personal and cultural repercussions of racism and misogyny
in her own experience, and with the
paradoxical ugliness and beauty of
the rural Australia she encounters.
The integrity of this articulate and
impassioned account is evident in
the fact that Robyn Davidson does
not find glib solutions to inner or
outer conflicts. Like her camel companions, she seems temperamental.
It is clear that there's a great shortage of men on many of our walks.
One reason that there are so few
men on the walks, I think, is that
there are so few men on the walks.
Even if we have nothing else to do,
maybe it's hard for us to go walking
with the Sticks because we feel outnumbered and awkward, sort of as if
we don't really belong.
insatiable, and slighdy crazy, but
also determined, direct, vulnerable,
and splendid.
There are eleven copies in the Sacramento Public Library. This work
is available online in paperback,
hard copy, Kindle, Nook and Audible
Audio formats. Also Tracks has
been made into a movie.
attend lots more walks in 2015? I
hope you all will join me in making
that commitment, and I look forward to seeing more of you guys on
the trail.
John McLaughlin
But what if we got motivated, and
more and more of us started showing up? Then, I'll bet that we wouldn't feel so outnumbered, and we'd
begin to think of ourselves as fullfledged, legitimate members of the
then more heterogeneous groups of
walkers.
And as a result, while we certainly
could and would want to walk with
the women, we'd also have the opportunity, if we felt like it once in a
while, to lag behind in groups of our
own, where we could scratch and
spit, cuss and tell dirty jokes, and
talk about guy stuff, too.
So what do you say that we all make
a serious New Year's resolution to
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