Photographs of Chico, California

In the Central Valley of California – 100 Miles North of Sacramento. Nestled near the Foothills of Mount Lassen. Famous for Swimming in Chico Creek and Big Al’s Drive in Restaurant… Click on the Pictures to see them Bigger… Photos of The Sacramento River near Chico, CA – Scotty’s Bar and Boat Launch – Swimming

Mother’s Day Share: What I said at an Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting Outdoors in Bidwell Park, Chico

“I’m Greg and I’m an Alcoholic…” To set the stage: We are at a meeting at the Campfire Council Ring with about 50 people on a Hot Summer Sunday Morning. People Come from All Over Butte County… Much Wisdom There from Old Timers That Work Full Time and Go to One Meeting a Week. I

My AutoBiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan – and Living in Chico, Washington DC and Eureka. 9/13/2020

I Was Born March 19th, 1954. We lived on Hedding Street Near the San Jose Airport until We moved to Los Gatos in 1960.  I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972… an Ideal Childhood… Then I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System

Here Are All the Words We Read at Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/ If You Can’t Actually Attend an AA Meeting, Read These Words Out Loud and “Share” At Home or Online… “Meeting Format”, “How It Works”, “The Twelve Traditions”, “More About Alcoholism”, “The Promises”, “Prayer of Saint Francis”, “The Twelve Steps”, “The Serenity Prayer”, “A Vision for You” and MANY MANY MORE! Plus Free Coloring Book

Photos of Chico, California… Bidwell Park, Butte Creek Canyon and Big Al’s Drive in Restaurant on The Esplanade…

and My Memories of Going to College there in 1973… Then I Went Back in the Late 1990s… https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/chico-california-bidwell-park-butte.html Drive North on Highway 5 from Sacramento,  Turn Right on Highway 32…  Keep Going until You Get There…  A Cruising Destination… (Like the Movie American Graffiti) Neon sign in the dining room window of Big Al’s

VIRTUAL TOUR of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA…

If you can’t come here in Person, “Visit” using this Website… Use these Handy LINKS… Rainbow Gathering … Kinetic Sculpture Race … Arcata … Eureka … Chico … Los Gatos … San Francisco … San Jose … Berkeley … Crescent City … Mount Shasta … Humboldt State University … Bidwell Park, Chico … Photographs of Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park. Chico California Lava Basalt Rock from the Eruption of Mount Lassen. Berkeley History Mural on Amoeba Music

One Mile swimming pool in Chico California. A WPA project. They built a dam across the Chico Creek and poured the Sycamore Pool. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, The Works Progress Administration Constructed this Concrete Swimming Pool. It’s Open at Night…

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Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park. Chico California. Lava Basalt Rock from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

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Spiritual Teacher Sonya Sophia – At the Goddess Temple in Chico, California – She Does Healing Workshops at The Rainbow Gathering and Burning Man… and Online…

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/spiritual-teacher-sonya-sophia-born-in.html   Sonya Sophia at the Goddess Temple Chico California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7zsgfm6fvM&t=42s Leaders Causing Leaders – EFT with Sonya Sophia – part 1 of 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkzErLQfHLI&t=83s Alternative Healing EFT-2-Rainbow 2010 Sonya Sophia Illig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJf74R6MsiQ&t=32s EFT Circle with Sonya Sophia at Rainbow Gathering 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-vF6l_qyXs Discovering Your Divine Purpose: Workshop with Sonya Sophia at Burning Man https://www.worldtappingcircle.com/

Chico, California… Bidwell Park, Butte Creek Canyon and Big Al’s Drive in Restaurant on The Esplanade… Drive North on Highway 5, Turn Right on Highway 32…

A Cruising Destination… (Like the Movie American Graffiti) “Bear Hole” in upper Bidwell park – Lava from Mount Lassen   13 Redwood Trees in Bidwell Park…   Inside Picnic Area 37 looking at my Van – Bidwell Park on Chico Creek Butte Creek Canyon photographed on the Skyway to Paradise, California Real name of a