Friday loop around the lake. 3.4 miles of Oakland being Oakland.
Ticked off Walk the Lake Merritt loop · Oakland, the other side of the BaySign in to like or comment.
Diego Ramírez
@diego_oak · 4 followers · 5 following
Oakland born and raised. Teaches chemistry, camps in the desert, grades taco trucks professionally.
3 al pastor, 1 horchata, 0 regrets 🌮
Ticked off Al pastor from Tacos Mi Rancho · Oakland, the other side of the BaySign in to like or comment.
Stream Trail with the dog. Redwoods fifteen minutes from my classroom.
Ticked off Redwood Regional Park's Stream Trail · Oakland, the other side of the BaySign in to like or comment.
Shucked our own at the picnic tables. Messy, perfect.
Ticked off Oysters on Tomales Bay · Point Reyes in a daySign in to like or comment.
Tule elk everywhere. 9.5 miles out and back, headwind both ways somehow.
Ticked off Tule elk on the Tomales Point Trail · Point Reyes in a daySign in to like or comment.
One pizza a day, a jazz trio, a line down Shattuck. Always right.
Ticked off Pizza at the Cheese Board in Berkeley · Oakland, the other side of the BaySign in to like or comment.
Sunrise at the pole. Three miles straight up, legs are jelly, worth it.
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TomaszThree miles straight up and you didn't bring a bike? Amateur.
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Free telescope night. First-quarter Moon through the big refractor and two of my 10th graders gasped out loud.
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Golden hour. Someone behind us learned the hard way why they call it jumping cholla.
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Yes, it looks like a skull. Yes, I took the photo.
Ticked off Skull Rock · Joshua Tree, two nightsSign in to like or comment.
Sunrise over the Coachella Valley. The San Andreas Fault is down there somewhere.
Ticked off Sunrise at Keys View · Joshua Tree, two nightsSign in to like or comment.
Brisket, a local band, and a sky already full of stars at 8pm.
Ticked off Dinner at Pappy & Harriet's · Joshua Tree, two nightsSign in to like or comment.
The floor's been tilted since the 1906 quake. Jack London drank here. So did I.
Ticked off A drink at Heinold's · Oakland, the other side of the BaySign in to like or comment.
Trajinera + micheladas + a mariachi band we overpaid. Would overpay again.
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La Casa Azul. Buy tickets online days ahead — learned that at the door on day one.
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Ofrendas across the whole square. Marigolds everywhere, the smell of copal.
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Walked the Avenue of the Dead at opening. You can't climb the Pyramid of the Sun anymore, and honestly it's bigger from below.
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