Summary of the price tag for Sunday’s jaunt to Angel Island State Park: Parking in Tiburon: $11 Ferry to the island: $13 Golden Gate Bridge toll: $5 Five gallons of gas for 120-mile round trip: $16.25 (Note to self: find…

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Operative adjective of the past few days has been "scalding." Well, scalding by our standards. It’s not like the brutal 95/95 (degrees/humidity) that we’ve known in Tampa or the insufferable 103/92 we’ve known in Peoria, but even when there are…

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Angel Island is this hunk of rock poking up out of the middle of San Francisco Bay. The island’s a state park now, but over the years it’s been home to an anti-aircraft missile base, a prisoner of war camp…

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