Walnut Creek! Oh, Walnut Creek! If ever there was a perfect little Northern California town, you are it. You are the Corona Del Mar of the North!
I love living here. It's as fabulous as beach-less living can be.*
Let me tell you why, at the risk of sounding like a snob:
-The weather here is generally great. When people think of the San Francisco bay area they think overcastish and cool. Not the WC. The microclimate here gives us great, hot, sunny summers and cool winters.
-It's kinda yuppie. Upscale shopping is the name of the game in downtown Walnut Creek: Neiman Marcus, Nordies, Chanel, Burberry, Juicy... Blah, blah, blah. I'm not a shopper and personally think those places are ridiculous. But I do like the atmosphere of downtown. It's lush and breezy and laid back and posh. It feeeeeeeels beautiful, dahling.
(I must interject here, or at some point, that I grew up in Vallejo, do you remember me telling you that before? Va-lle-jo. The most recent alumus to the world's collection [of two] bankrupt cities. Growing up, my Mom brought me to Walnut Creek every so often for a girl's day out. We'd shop, and go out for lunch and do girly things in this lush environment. Walnut Creek was the luxury destination. Now I live here. Which wasn't planned, or even wished for, it just kinda happened, and I LOVE it!)
-MOSTLY, in this lists of things that I love about the WC, I love the hiking. I love the open spaces and the sheer acreage of open space and nature that surrounds me. There are miles of bike and running trails, places I can go for a stroll, parks that rim the creek (of Walnut Creek) and even Mt. Diablo.
So, the inspiration behind this entire post is the newest Open Space I've fallen in love with here in the WC: Shell Ridge. It's wonderful! And what's more, I've found that it actually connects, through miles and miles of trails to two other Open Spaces that I really enjoy in this area. I like this place so much that I hiked here Friday for an hour, then came back Saturday evening and hiked for two more hours, exploring trails and finding more to explore. I pretty much loved it.
So Walnut Creek: Don't change. You're gorgeous.
(*excepting of course were I to be living in Rome)
I love living here. It's as fabulous as beach-less living can be.*
Let me tell you why, at the risk of sounding like a snob:
-The weather here is generally great. When people think of the San Francisco bay area they think overcastish and cool. Not the WC. The microclimate here gives us great, hot, sunny summers and cool winters.
-It's kinda yuppie. Upscale shopping is the name of the game in downtown Walnut Creek: Neiman Marcus, Nordies, Chanel, Burberry, Juicy... Blah, blah, blah. I'm not a shopper and personally think those places are ridiculous. But I do like the atmosphere of downtown. It's lush and breezy and laid back and posh. It feeeeeeeels beautiful, dahling.
(I must interject here, or at some point, that I grew up in Vallejo, do you remember me telling you that before? Va-lle-jo. The most recent alumus to the world's collection [of two] bankrupt cities. Growing up, my Mom brought me to Walnut Creek every so often for a girl's day out. We'd shop, and go out for lunch and do girly things in this lush environment. Walnut Creek was the luxury destination. Now I live here. Which wasn't planned, or even wished for, it just kinda happened, and I LOVE it!)
-MOSTLY, in this lists of things that I love about the WC, I love the hiking. I love the open spaces and the sheer acreage of open space and nature that surrounds me. There are miles of bike and running trails, places I can go for a stroll, parks that rim the creek (of Walnut Creek) and even Mt. Diablo.
So, the inspiration behind this entire post is the newest Open Space I've fallen in love with here in the WC: Shell Ridge. It's wonderful! And what's more, I've found that it actually connects, through miles and miles of trails to two other Open Spaces that I really enjoy in this area. I like this place so much that I hiked here Friday for an hour, then came back Saturday evening and hiked for two more hours, exploring trails and finding more to explore. I pretty much loved it.
So Walnut Creek: Don't change. You're gorgeous.
(*excepting of course were I to be living in Rome)
Hey remember when I lived in the Dub C and would chat you up in Mississippi, or wherever the heck you were, on the telly and you would laugh at me because I sounded like such a snob?!? Yeah, just sayin. *wink
ReplyDeleteHahaha, yup. Totally do, but you were way more of a snob with your Nanny car with heated seats. "This loaner Volvo doesn't have heated seats. I want MY Volvo back!"
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