Exploring San Luis Obispo County and Nearby Coastal Areas

Ron Stob

Central Coast Press

This is the story of one couple's escape on a forty-foot trawler cruising 6300 miles and 147 locks around the eastern part of North America known as America's Great Loop. Their nautical ineptitude is evident from the beginning, but pulling from their personal and collective strengths, the authors overcome doubt, a lack of experience, and real and imagined horrors. The odyssey is told the way life hands out its portions -- sometimes humorously, sometimes tragically, but always memorably. The writing is light and appealing, but there is a serious strain running through the book for those who relish history and graphic descriptions of the landscape. Astute and attentive to detail, they chronicled every event and kept an accounting of expenses, equipment and charting. As a result, the appendix is worth the price of the book for anyone interested in learning what charts are needed, information on locks and their fees, details on equipment and the best place to be educated about boating. Both the authors are excellent photographers and the book is eye-catching with color inserts and black and white photographs throughout.

"Honey, Let's Get a Boat...": A Cruising Adventure of America's Great Loop

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

Raven Cove Publishing

This poster-sized (23 by 26 inches) map has been changed slightly to show a multi-colored ghost line of the various routes. The East coast leg is green to represent sping; the Northern leg is orange to represent summer in Canada and the Great Lakes areas; the Inland Rivers leg is brown to represent fall. The barcode that was in the lower right hand corner on earlier maps has been moved to the back. If you have one of these earlier editions, the barcode can be covered up with your boat card prior to framing. A smaller version, the America's Great Loop Cruise Mini-Map, is now available for those who don't have room for this larger size. It measures 12 x 14 inches and is identical to the poster sized map in every way except size and price.

America's Great Loop Cruise Routes

Eva Stob

This is the story of a couple's travels on a forty-foot trawler cruising 6300 miles and 145 locks around the eastern part of North America known as America's Great Loop or the Great Circle Cruise. Their nautical ineptitude is evident from the beginning, but pulling from their personal and collective strengths, the authors overcome doubt, a lack of experience, and real and imagined horrors. The odyssey is told the way life hands out its adventures -- sometimes humorously, sometimes tragically, but always memorably. The writing is light and appealing, but there is a serious strain running through the book for those who relish history and descriptions of the landscape. Astute and attentive to detail, they chronicled events and kept an account of expenses, equipment and charting. As a result, the appendix/guidebook is worth the price of the book for anyone interested in planning their cruise. Topics include necessary charts and guidebooks, information on locks, setting an itinerary, resource addresses and websites, details on equipment and the best place to be educated about boating. The book has full-color inserts with black and white photographs interspersed throughout.

Honey, Let's Get a Boat... A Cruising Adventure of America's Great Loop

Travel

Travel Writing

This map is a smaller version of the poster-sized America's Great Loop Cruise Routes map which has been produced since 2001. It is identical in every way except size and price. Features include accurate placement of navigable rivers, locks and dams, and major cities and ports. The various routes of the Great Loop are lightly outlined with a different color for each recommended season. The map is produced in full color on 80# stock and matte-laminated. Size is 12 inches x 14 inches. Small enough to use aboard your boat, it looks great mounted and framed as desired. It is shipped rolled in a tube and covered in plastic wrap. This map and the larger version are valuable tools for those cruising or planning to cruise America's Great Loop.

America's Great Loop Cruise Mini-Map

Raven Cove Publisher

28 Adventures on California's Central Coast. The marvels of the Central Coast are often hidden from the view of the cursory observer, but the obscure places are the poetry of the landscape, the secretive places that quicken the heart, widen the pupils and raise the level of wonder and curiosity. Besides our stunning natural landscapes, there are few places in the United States where the footprint of history remains so indelibly imprinted on the landscape.Discover Zaca Lake in the San Rafael Mountains where the Chumash camped 8,000 years ago.Ride the wet, rocky road to Big & Little Falls behind Lopez LakeThrow your legs over a trail horse for a journey into the Sespe Wilderness.Motorcycle along the Back Roads from Pismo to Cambria. Visit quaint towns, shop antique malls, wander the dirt roads to farm stores and ocean front cafes.Hike Pinnacles National Monument though dripping caves & volcanic spires moving northward toward San Francisco.Follow the 1772 Padres and 1873 Stage Coach Trail up Cuesta Grade to San Miguel and San Antonio Missions. It s a look into travel in the last two centuries.This book is designed for the outdoor activist as well as the easy rider. It s also rewarding to the arm chair traveler content to learn about the geography and history of the Central Coast from the comfort of a Lazy Boy recliner.1772 Padres and 1873 Stage Coach Trail up Cuesta Grade to San Miguel and San Antonio Missions. It s a look into travel in the last two centuries.This book is designed for the outdoor activist as well as the easy rider. It s also rewarding to the arm chair traveler content to learn about the geography and history of the Central Coast from the comfort of a Lazy Boy recliner.

Backroads of the Central Coast

Central Coast Books

The California Central Coast s wildflower fields, oak studded slopes and wooded canyons are our inheritance, but it comes only to those willing to venture beyond their homesteads and discover first hand the majesty of our golden grasses and intoxicating vineyards undulating across the hills. · Ride the back road to Pozo through dry creek beds and across golden prairies where the last grizzly in the county roamed.· Observe the ruts of 19th century stagecoaches in the sandstone as Concord stagecoaches made their way across San Marco Pass.· Walk the Nipomo Dunes a wilderness oasis, a moving desert, a phenomenon of nature unprecedented on the continent.· Hike the peaks above San Luis Obispo to observe the depth and breadth of the Middle Kingdom.· Witness the birth and life cycle of the Great Blue Heron that nests in the eucalyptus groves of Morro Bay.· Sleep in the hollow of Castro Canyon when evening fog enshrouds giant redwood trees and drizzle dapples the forest floor in the land of Helmuth Deetjen.· Stand on the San Andreas fault line and understand that the movement of the land is beneath our feet and in our backyard. The Central Coast is California s Middle Kingdom. Nature reigns and civilization honors the Godly aspect of hill, valley and mountainstream. The Central Coast is on everyone s list of favorite places to go to get away from it all, to reconnect with family, to experience the wonders of the natural world. Discover new ways of appreciating the majesty of sea, rolling beaches and mountain hideaways in this book of outdoor adventure and travel

Exploring Back Roads of the Central Coast

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