Once upon a time, there was a magical lodge hidden away in the mysterious forest.  Only a select few knew where it was or were even allowed in.

Err... not really.  The Tourist Club is a beer pub/social club on the edge of Muir Woods, just north of San Francisco.  They are a private club, but they're also open to visitors during weekends.  I decided to take my LA friends there for a nice walk and a few beers.  Then we went to a restaurant called Ad Hoc in Napa for dinner.  Highly recommended, by the way, if you ever want to know what home cooking by a world class chef tastes like.

Oh yeah, I also happened to bring my handy GPS unit for tracking every step we took.  You know, just in case other people wanted to know how to get there.

Here's a map of our trip that afternoon and evening:

And as always, I created a Picasa web album plotting the pictures on a map, which can be found here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jessie.suen/TouristClub/photo#map

Of course, there's the obligatory screenshot:

Maybe one of these days Google wil let people embed album maps into their websites... right now you have to pay for third-party services to do so.  I also haven't had time to hack together my own code for generating photo maps.  One of these days...

This photo probably sums up the Tourist Club experience:

Mmm... Belgian beer on tap and sausages while overlooking a gorgeous mountain landscape...