I will yuck no yums here. The wharf serves some great food. I will second dust bowl. We go often.
Alvarado is good and their spot in carmel has a slightly different menu than the Monterey spot and it’s good also. Tough to get a table at either right now though. New sushi spot opened in carmel a few weeks ago called toro that’s great. Cantinetta luca and Il vecchio are my favorite Italian restaurants.
A bit of a curve ball but I am looking for some insight and I know you guise can deliver. Currently a resident of Brentwood but work has me considering a move to the North Bay. Something like Santa Rosa. I’m not a native (been in CA 7yrs) and know nothing about these areas.
A brief summary:
Man & wife of mid 40s, one HS aged student (public schools only), enjoy taking our dog on walks/hikes, wine tastings, outdoor concerts, etc. Not really picky when it comes to shopping/food. Pretty basic in that regard.
My wife is public school teacher and would be looking to transfer out there as well. Curious if anyone has thoughts/experience with the public schools. What neighborhoods are good/bad. Traffic (watch the chokepoints).
Would be awesome if we could be near a golf course (or at min a decent range).
Appreciate any and all feedback.
Heya @TheAnser , I live in Bennett Valley in Santa Rosa, and honestly it sounds very much like what you are looking for. Bennett Valley golf course is here, and it has a decent/scenic range and a really lovely front 9. Montgomery and Maria Carrillo are both good high schools in Eastern Santa Rosa. Feel free to DM with any specific questions you may have! I mostly grew up here, and find it to be a pretty darn good place to live. Though I don’t really do much other than walk my dog and play golf, I am aware of other things. 
Thanks for the info. I will certainly have some DMs headed your way as we get more into this so appreciate the assistance.
Anyone in the Santa Cruz area? I just moved here
Nope but went to college there. If you search through this thread there are a lot of good food recs, and local courses - obviously the crown jewel is Pasatiempo but some other good cheaper courses not too far away.
Seascape at 12:20 tomorrow with @Excuse_My_Shanks . $62, 2 spots left. Shoot me a DM if interested!
Have a trip planned with my wife to the greater Bay Area for late September/early October. My wife doesn’t golf so I’m trying to keep in the mostly 9 hole rounds.
As it stands now, it’ll be:
9/25: Northwood (twilight)
9/26: Wine country
9/27: Driving south to Carmel, will stop to play along the way. Hoping to snag one of the $175 Pasatiempo rounds, or might do Corica South
9/28: Pacific Grove
9/29: no golf, but we do plan on stopping into Refuge for a few hours
9/30: The Hay, drive to SF
10/1: Fleming 9
10/2: No golf
Few questions:
Pasatiempo has no online tee times for a 5 day stretch, 9/26 through 9/30. Do they close for maintenance that time of year? Or possible tournament?
PG’s website mentions you can book a tee time for the back 9 only, as long as it’s within the first 75 minutes of daylight. Anyone ever done this? Thanks!
Pretty sure Pasatiempo is aerifying… Call course to confirm though of course.
Fellow slug? What year did you graduate? I was class of '07, college 9.
You CHILD. I was Stevenson, class of 1990… now I need to go find a warm blanket, a cup of tea and some Geritol.
Hahaha, back when they didn’t give out grades. Our at least I think that’s the story that’s out there and its only partially true.
It’s 100% true. “No grades, thank you.” Had a shirt with that. But you got a written evaluation that could be way more brutal. What would you prefer, a C or a “Mark rarely showed up and when he did had little to offer but did well on the tests.” That was one of my roommates “grades.” Others just clearly used Excellent, Very Good, etc as proxies for grades.
When I applied to grad school my transcript was an inch think. Took one letter grade course (Calculus), got an A and told everyone I had a 4.0.
That’s awesome. Your roommate sounds like me.
When I went there you were allowed to take like 1 or 2 classes a year as “pass/fail” course. I never did it because I was always intending to get my GPA up this quarter instead of playing golf/working all week at Pasatiempo. That never worked.
Great day out at seascape yesterday with @Excuse_My_Shanks . Aspirational half set bag. Do not hesitate to shoot him an invite if you’ve got a spot
That does look like them! I can’t tell tho
How many 6’8” slendermen could there be?
Randy’s face is blocked out by the on screen scoreboard. Reminds me of Wilson from home improvement
