CHAPTER VI BAY AND UPPER COAST COUNTIES San Mateo Alameda Contra Costa Napa Lake Marin Sonoma Mendocino Humboldt. Millbrae Burlingame San Mateo Menlo Park Palo Alto. UNLESS the traveller have at his command a space- annihilating motor, he will be brave indeed to at- tempt all of the innumerable short tours which may be made from San Francisco. San Mateo County is accessible by automobile, railroad and trolley. All routes border the broad estates of her millionaires, though their immacu- late charms are often screened by twisting drives and adroitly planted trees. The Ogden Mills ranch is at Millbrae. Burlingame occupies part of the old grant of the San Mateo Rancho. The club house of golf and polo fame is deep-porticoed and shaded by eucalyptus trees. From the town of San Mateo there is a morning stage to Pesca- dero and Spanish Town (Half Moon Bay) by a beautiful road which dips among the hills and passes the Spring Valley Lakes on the way. 130
