“I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and find it hard to believe. The names, the shapes…the courses of the roads and rivers…are an inexhaustible fund of interest for any…with eyes to see or two penceworth of imagination to understand with.”
Treasure Island, 1883
Robert Louis Stevenson and bride, Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne spent the summer of 1880 honeymooning at in a cabin at an abandoned mining camp on Mt. St. Helena. Perhaps not surprisingly, no record of Fanny’s review of this romantic setting can be found. There is a small marker 1 mile up the forested, sometimes rocky trail. Hike 4 miles beyond that spot on mostly gravel forest road, up, up, up to 4337 feet to look out from North Peak, the highest peak in Sonoma County on a mountain shared with Napa County. The dogs were barking, but Mr. Stevenson was the inspiration for this adventurer!
