After two nights we left the Abbey, but started out originally in what might appear to be the ‘wrong’ direction, because we were headed up to Devil’s Punchbowl, a bowl of spectacular pink rocks wedged against the very foot of the mountains, between the mainline San Andreas Fault and the north-end of its daughter fault, [...]

So we left San Miguel, initially on the same road that we had entered the town on, but then taking a different road toward Parkfield.  The road ascended up a canyon that looked like the one we had descended, came over the ridge, descended into the fault valley, and turned toward Parkfield.  As we approached [...]

In the month of September, 2010, I had the privilege of going with some friends on a road trip the length of the San Andreas Fault, from San Francisco to the Salton Sea. September is not the most aesthetically beautiful month to take this trip, I should warn the reader. April would be the best [...]