The very first
thing the wife and I did after an hour and 15-minute drive north from Fremont
to Santa Rosa, the principal city in the Napa-Sonoma wine haven of the San
Francisco Bay Area, was head for the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research
Center.
Schulz, you
remember, is the creator of the deeply loved comic strip, Peanuts, and its
lovable characters – Charlie and Sally Brown, Lucy and Linus Van Pelt,
Schroeder, Rerun, Peppermint Patty, Woodstock, and of course, everybody's
favorite beagle, Snoopy.
We'd tried to
check into our hotel room, but it was 'way too early. But I'd anticipated that,
used the GPS on my iPad Air2, and confidently headed for the museum.
Oops, I missed
the off ramp for the street I needed to get to (it came up 'way too fast), and
I ended up miles too far north before backtracking. Thankfully, there was an
off ramp coming and we soon got there. Good thing too. This was a Monday
and if we went on Tuesday, the museum would have been closed. Adult admission
is $10, but seniors 62+ and kids 4-18 are $5, with younger kids free.
Gotta tell
you, it's mostly comic strips – in display cases and on the walls, with special
rooms devoted to Alice in Wonderland, sports, nostalgic photographs and the
like. There's even a children's room where kids can learn how to draw and color
the Peanuts characters.
Was it worth
the long drive and the $5 admission? Hell yes. Enjoy my photos:
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