Thursday, October 29, 2009

California Collision: Marin County

This is my penultimate California Collision post.

After our visit to Point Reyes National Seashore, it was time to head back to San Francisco, drop off our rental car, and return to Morton Grove. But first we had to travel through the heart of Marin County.

It is the wealthiest county in the nation. Marin is also known for it's über-liberal politics, its dedication to New Age religions, and overall hedonism.

The American Taliban, John Walker Lindh, is from Marin, which led President Bush to quip in 2002 that he was "some misguided Marin County hot-tubber."

With Mrs. Marathon Pundit behind the wheel, I had the opportunity for to gaze at Marin and notice a few things. My observations are of course not scientific, but considering we were on major thoroughfares, what I saw, or didn't see, says a lot:

Just one big box store, a Target.

Two major franchised fast food outlets, a McDonalds and a Subway.

Marin County residents probably view this as a good thing, but remember, big boxes charge the least for products, which means that money saved could be used to purchase a second hot tub.

On the other hand, perhaps Marin-ites know that discounters bring in the riff raff, who might ascertain a method to live in a tony town such as Tiburon, ruining their paradise.

Even from the relative safety from the passenger seat on a freeway, I could feel the California smugness.

And that will be a topic of my final post of this series.Hotel LaRose

Note: Although each photograph in this post was taken during my California trip, none of them were taken the day we drove through Marin.

Earlier posts:

Sea and Sand
Tomales Bay
Charlie Brown and Santa Rosa
Napa Valley
Central Valley Orchards and Drought
Shiloh Wind Farm
First National Bank of Oakdale Building
Strawberry Fields Forever
Tioga Lake
Mule Deer
The Pacific Crest Trail
Lembert Dome
Dana Fork
Tenaya Lake
Olmsted Point
Siesta Lake
Giant Sequoias
Glacier Point Sunset
Half Dome
Yosemite Falls
Yosemite Chapel
El Capitan
Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Yosemite
Bridalveil Fall
El Portal
Obama's economic stimulus "campaign sign" stains Yosemite National Park
Drought
Is something going on here?
The Castro
F-line Streetcars
Alcatraz
Angel Island
San Francisco's Chinatown
Fisherman's Wharf
Harvey Milk's Camera Shop
San Francisco's Union Square
The Painted Ladies
San Francisco and the military
Haight-Ashbury
Mission San Francisco de Asís
San Francisco's sea lions
San Francisco's blues mural
San Francisco: Cable cars

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