Cazadero Ca

No rain is falling--at this exact second. But here in the wettest spot in the dripping state of California in the heart of the fiercest El Nino year this decade, all you have to do is wait if it's precipitation you want. How wet is it in tiny Cazadero, clinging to the side of Pole Mountain beneath moss-covered redwoods about 90 miles northwest of San Francisco? Just this week the town surpassed 100 inches of rain for the season. Soggy Seattle averages 38.6. How wet is it?

No rain is falling--at this exact second. But here in the wettest spot in the dripping state of California in the heart of the fiercest El Nino year this decade, all you have to do is wait if it's precipitation you want. How wet is it in tiny Cazadero, clinging to the side of Pole Mountain beneath moss-covered redwoods about 90 miles northwest of San Francisco? Just this week the town surpassed 100 inches of rain for the season. Soggy Seattle averages 38.6. How wet is it?

There's nothing like a little delayed gratification to make a couple of newlyweds appreciate their honeymoon. Tom and I were married in May in a tiny ceremony, and held off having our official reception until early July, so by mid-July we were more than ready to run off to someplace special. It turns out the Timberhill Ranch, nestled in the rolling hills of Sonoma County, was worth the wait.

Lured by redwood forests, fog-tempered summers and sandy swimming holes, vacationers have been coming to the Russian River since the turn of the century. Once known as San Francisco's Riviera, the Russian River resort area was a day trip by ferry and train. Travelers stayed in rough cabins or in scores of resorts and camps along the railroad tracks that, until 1935, extended north from Sausalito to Monte Rio and Guerneville.