A friend of mine invited us to his going away party to celebrate his new job in Berlin. We met at the Tourist Club, a private Bavarian-style lodge surrounded by trees on Mt. Tam and accessible only by hiking steep trails. I had no idea this place even existed. And although the path down was pretty steep (I'm talking just for the kids of course), it would be a place I could see visiting more often, and not just for the German beer they serve on the tables overlooking the forest. Oddly enough, we visited this "secret" place the same day the NY Times mentioned it.
