Helena, California

The most active settlements in Trinity County, California, are linked by a state highway (SR 299) and anchored by Weaverville, the county seat.  Abandoned mining camps were often organized by the creeks that feed the Trinity River, sites of early

martinez station

View from a cafe window in Martinez, California, along the Carquinez Strait north of Berkeley, probably from 2004 or so.  That’s my motorcycle on the right, a 1981 Honda CB900 Custom (sold in 2006).