didn't kelly tell you about that drive during brunch? the terror in her dad's heart as he begged for a road with crash railings?

And I have to tell you, the short drive from the GG bridge west, up the headlands, is gorgeous but a little scary... and then you summit and down the other side there is nothing but salty air and cold ocean 1000 feet below you, and every time I do it I fully expect to die. http://www.pashnit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3827 - hardly does it justice.

And neither of them have anything on the Waipio Valley road on Hawaii. Good times.

To be honest, there are roads in CA that make the Headlands look flat as a griddle and safe as a walk in the park. And you don't even have to go up in the Sierras or the Cascades to learn fear, though the masters classes are up there. Try Hwy1 up by Fort Ross, north of SF, on a rainy day. Holy farglesnot.

Poor Stacey (I would have been freaking right along with her)...At least you got some nice pictures.

We just returned from California today. We were at Muir Woods on Aug. 26. As one freaked-out attorney, I decided to google how many lawsuits had arisen from accidents there, and I ran into your blog. Thank you for so articulately describing the experience--very therapeutic for all who have suffered the same experience. I learned too late that San Francisco should never be navigated with the GPS--we referred to that evil woman as "Garmin" by the way. Garmin leads her victims via the shortest route, which is the steepest and freakiest route. And then she gets confused and loses her satellites and re-routes every second and a half until she is leading drivers off cliffs. As it turns out, there was a less threatening--though still horrifying and not recommended--route to/from Muir Woods. I spent my entire time at Muir talking to the people who worked there and acquiring a map to get back in a safer fashion. I should have known not to trust Garmin because she had done something similar to us the day before. To visit the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, it turned out that we didn't need to go up Grizzly Peak; there was a much easier route (that happened to be a few feet longer, so Garmin decided we should risk our lives instead). Anyway, I'm glad you both--and my family and I--made it through the SF vacation--our next vacation will be to the plains! How did you turn around?? I wanted desperately to turn around but I didn't think it was possible on the Panaramonic Highway.

Keith and his friends got lost IN Muir woods I believe. I'll have to ask him about that. And the drive to/from. This was all very interesting. And Garmin woman has become very familiar to us. I've come very close to 'recalculating' her ass right out of the car. On several occasions.