Bolinas

"Bolinas - The town that didn't want company" as said by the New York Times and almost everyone else who knows about this place. Its a weird community that seems like its stuck in the 1970s with grey haired hippy surfers and all round general funny characters including a hobo looking guy with a pet pigeon who traveled on his head! It's really funny seeing houses that start at 1.5 million dollars with rusting 1990s Toyotas sitting outside, either the people want to fit in with the towns image or no one sells their houses here and have owned it since the 70s :D also they have people from the town taking down every sign leading to the place on the main road so not too many people go there

We got flagged down by a older guy clearing out an art gallery to help him load massive paintings onto the roof of his truck who ended up talking to us for ages about everything - American politics, the Spanish civil war, the azores and that he had lived there since 1973. We walked up and down the main street and past the grand Hotel which is some guys 2 bedroom house which is basically the only place to stay in town and left feeling quite bemused than this weird place exists only 20 miles from San Francisco

(if you've noticed a change in the writing style, it's because it was written by Seamus after a pint of beer)Read more