Coyote Point Recreation Area and Seal Point, San Mateo

Hike Date: Januray 18, 2016

Occasion: MLK National Holiday (Monday)

What better way to celebrate a national holiday than to go for a long walk in the wilderness, not too far from home. After our first year’s experience of living in the Bay Area, we had dismissed the idea of going for a road trip anywhere around because one would invariably be caught up in a traffic load of people trying to do the same. Or of people returning home via road after a long weekend.

Destination: Bay Trail in San Mateo’s “Coyote Point Recreation Area“, just next door to the San Francisco International Airport

Coyote Point Recreation Area

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Lands End to Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco

Hike Date: August 8, 2015

View of the Golden Gate Bridge from the Lands End Trail

Though extremely tiring, this hike was one of a kind – a walk along the coast from the northwestern corner of San Francisco to the northeastern point of the city – starting from Sutro Baths and ending at Ghirardelli.

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