Mill Valley California
If there is a god or goddess of cool towns, he or she started with the creation of places like Mill Valley, California. That’s what I thought on December 27, 1977, when first arriving in the state I began in Mill Valley, California. While residents might now take for granted some of the sensory or other details (though I doubt such proactive, progressive, conscientious folk would) I will walk you through those that struck me and still return to remind me of the starting point of what has been a fine life.
The eucalyptus wafts a mighty moody redolence throughout Mill Valley California, where said trees line the crooked roads—many of which are not city-maintained but taken care of by the residents on the roads. (One weekend day a year—or more, for example, the neighbors of Manor Drive tote shovels and tar mixtures, meeting to fill in the cavernous pot holes, lesions, and dips of the thin pavement.
Further into town, along East Blithedale, which runs through Mill Valley, California from the highway to the redwoods, more smells emanate from cookeries, eateries, the ever-present flower bodega, and the historic Sequoia Theatre on the slope of the Throckmorton and Blithedale fork. Natural food shops and groceries but against magic/head shops and chic clothing stores, amidst the great trees and met by the Depot, where a double-doored, terra cotta-floored foyer features a few drinks, a few books, and a few people waiting for the busses that run on the hour or every twenty minutes.
Trees are further celebrities, as around the bend from shopping stops are the great redwoods and other dark and darling flora and fauna of Muir Woods, wherein rests the Mill Valley, California town library, glassed on all sides for a remarkable library visit, interrupted only by the occasional clearing of a throat or the flitting of a bird or butterfly.
Less than a mile back through town in the other direction is the infamous Tamalpais High, turning out new dramatists on the tails of such stars as Robin Williams (who lived on the road to Mt. Tam) and Kathleen Quinlin (who turned over the psych film genre with her performance in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden). Also in the area is a longstanding retirement community, called, appropriately, The Redwoods, as well as classic lodging sites that skirt the byway.
And if you decide to settle among the culture and temperate Bay Area climate, you will also be in for the best treats: the poetry readings, the Mill Valley Film Festival, and the coolest of artists, performers, philosophers, and stars. You may run into, as I did those many years ago, the jovial Huey Lewis, the stoic Peter Seers, or celebs of neighboring hamlets visiting not s center attractions but as just another shopper, movie-goer, or tourist…Sean Penn might pop in from San Anselmo/Kentwood; Don Novello might hit the coffee shop, coming from his Marin home where he settled during/after his brilliant stint as Father Guido Sarducci on Saturday Night Live.
And now, as spring returns and the first olfactory sensations of eucalyptus strike me into wonderful, nostalgic recall, and as I stop to pick up all the names I just dropped, I will excuse myself—to hop in the car to visit the great place of my indoctrination of Mill Valley California, where you can get your start, too, or get your finish, retiring to the loveliness of warm people, wild woods, and wonderful offerings besides.
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