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Where do we stay when we come to the Northern California coast, to places like Marin and Sonoma? As I noted, we pinch our pennies where most things in life are concerned, and then splurge a little when we travel. There are actually not many hotels in this part of the world; in the Pt. Reyes area, there are a few in Inverness and a number of bed-and-breakfast places scattered elsewhere, but as I have noted, the locals are all 1960s Hep-cats and are wildly anti-development. I do not think the tourist traffic could support big hotels anyway.

So we stay in houses. The one above is my maximum favorite of all time, even though we only got to stay there once. It was, as you can see, literally on the water–in fact, literally over the water. That is Tomales Bay in the background, and the house was among a cluster of structures (nameless, as near as I could tell) on the north shore of the bay. As we did with all the places we stay, we found it on the Vacation Rentals By Owner website . You just find a place that looks good and email them. We never went back–we were afraid Lewis, then two, would fall off the back porch and into the sea–but I was delighted.

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