Santa Barbara: Chocolate Massage Anyone    The mission of Santa Barbara, like all California’s mission strung out along the Camino Real the length of the Golden State, were established so that the Spanish Main could lay it’s royal claim and mark it’s territory in the New World. The missionaries along with a conquistador or two [...]

Trippin’ Out in Tahoe   Northern California is a delicious landscape of redwood forests and giant sentinel sequoia’s. For a pure orgasmic adrenalin rush of oceanic proportions, there is the blue vast expanse of the whale watching waters of the wide, deep blue Pacific with it’s white foamy waves pounding the rocky California shoreline in [...]

BUM WINES – A BUCK TWENTY NINE! By Mike Marino (Writer/Journalist) Bum wines are much maligned! Screw fine wine, unscrew a bum wine, better yet, a rectangular drink, you know, wine in a box, salad in a bag. Many believe that fine wines rule…others of us agree that bum wines rock. We don’t worry about [...]

Haight Ashbury: Spare Change Tour By Mike Marino (Writer/Journalist) The Green Leafy Lefty Author of The Sandoz Collection FREE E-Series – Sex, drugs and rock and roll! To order your FREE E-copy email Mike at theroadhead@yahoo.com (Also includes Mikes two other e-books (The Atomic Hula) & (The Peyote Coyote) The Collection is Free to all [...]

The Atomic Hula Chapter Two 1966 By Mike Marino (Writer/Journalist) theroadhead@yahoo.com   North Beach is a bitch in heat, Old Italian’s and new bohemians make up the mix and sit at tables on the street and at smaller tables inside the bars. like Vesuvio’s, across the alley from the beat bookstore illuminated by the lights [...]

The Atomic Hula Chapter One 1966 By Mike Marino (Writer/Journalist) theroadhead@yahoo.com It’s hipsters, hookers, hustlers sinners, saints, a whacked out cab driver named Doc Yucatan, a transsexual beach bum and enough sex, drugs and rock n’ roll to last a lifetime. If you’re going to San Francisco….leave the driving to us…. Having never hopped a [...]

By Mike Marino (Writer/Journalist) California is a smorgasbord of yin’s and yang’s. Southern California, is the Pacific coast playground of the rebel without a cause hot rod car culture and Surf City, where, the Beach Boys promise, there are two girls for every boy. Northern California however, is the John Muir high country of the [...]