Wharf Cat LbNA #9272 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | DrewFamily    |
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| Plant date: | Jul 22, 2004 |
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| City: | Tortilla Flat |
| County: | Monterey |
| State: | California |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | verndra |
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| Last found: | Jul 13, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFFOFFFFFFFFr |
| Last edited: | Jul 22, 2004 |
Monterey sits on the slope of a hill, with a blue bay below it and with a forest of tall dark pine trees at its back. The lower parts of the town are inhabited by Americans, Italians, catchers and canners of fish. But on the hill where the forest and the town intermingle, where the streets are innocent of asphalt and the corners free of street lights, the old inhabitants of Monterey are embattled as the Ancient Britons are embattled in Wales. These are the paisanos, and this letterbox is for them. And for their cats. John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, ©1935.
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Chapter 8: How Jerry's friends sought mystic treasure on Huckleberry Hill. How Steinbeck found it and later how a pair of serge pants changed ownership twice.
Near the wharf where the fishermen still tie up, find Pacific Street and follow it briefly to Jefferson Street. Drive a mile or so west on Jefferson into the hills of old Tortilla Flat, changed a bit now from the days of Danny and the boys. Winding through Veterans Park, stop at the small parking lot on the right by the flagpole.
Pick up a trail map and walk past the trailhead sign along the fence line until the Presidio View Trail takes off steeply uphill to the southwest. There are stairs, and more stairs, and along the way you'll leave the stairs and the Presidio behind and pass by several scenic side trails leading northwest.
After a particularly steep patch of trail the Presidio View Trail will turn into the Bear Track Road, continuing strait on. The Summit Road heads off northwest here. Follow this one to your right and in a short way come to a three-way intersection of the Summit Road and the Scenic Road. This is the site of ill advised campfires, likely left by those old Tortilla Flat residents, drinking wine pilfered from Morelli and hiding from the responsibilities that waited down in Monterey.
The top of a water tank is glimpsed to the north and a few steps to the west, towards the Opossum Road, there is a gynormous pine tree to the north. A few more steps reveals an uprooted tree to the south. Just off trail to its right, the trunk and broken branches look like the callimari Cannery Row was famous for, before they and the sardines were fished out. Wharf Cat is nestled underneath.
Now, using your map, you could explore the neighborhood of Tortilla Flat. (It was never "flat," even in The Day). We enjoyed the Summit and the two loops of the Scenic Trail, but we didn't see any serge pants. We're not even sure what serge is. Perhaps Pillon or the Pirate know.
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Wharf cat down
way down
down, down by the docks of the city,
Blind and dirty
asked me for a dime--
dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but
I got time to hear his story
Words by Robert Hunter, Music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing
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Chapter 8: How Jerry's friends sought mystic treasure on Huckleberry Hill. How Steinbeck found it and later how a pair of serge pants changed ownership twice.
Near the wharf where the fishermen still tie up, find Pacific Street and follow it briefly to Jefferson Street. Drive a mile or so west on Jefferson into the hills of old Tortilla Flat, changed a bit now from the days of Danny and the boys. Winding through Veterans Park, stop at the small parking lot on the right by the flagpole.
Pick up a trail map and walk past the trailhead sign along the fence line until the Presidio View Trail takes off steeply uphill to the southwest. There are stairs, and more stairs, and along the way you'll leave the stairs and the Presidio behind and pass by several scenic side trails leading northwest.
After a particularly steep patch of trail the Presidio View Trail will turn into the Bear Track Road, continuing strait on. The Summit Road heads off northwest here. Follow this one to your right and in a short way come to a three-way intersection of the Summit Road and the Scenic Road. This is the site of ill advised campfires, likely left by those old Tortilla Flat residents, drinking wine pilfered from Morelli and hiding from the responsibilities that waited down in Monterey.
The top of a water tank is glimpsed to the north and a few steps to the west, towards the Opossum Road, there is a gynormous pine tree to the north. A few more steps reveals an uprooted tree to the south. Just off trail to its right, the trunk and broken branches look like the callimari Cannery Row was famous for, before they and the sardines were fished out. Wharf Cat is nestled underneath.
Now, using your map, you could explore the neighborhood of Tortilla Flat. (It was never "flat," even in The Day). We enjoyed the Summit and the two loops of the Scenic Trail, but we didn't see any serge pants. We're not even sure what serge is. Perhaps Pillon or the Pirate know.
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Wharf cat down
way down
down, down by the docks of the city,
Blind and dirty
asked me for a dime--
dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but
I got time to hear his story
Words by Robert Hunter, Music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing