Challenge: Where Can I Find a View of the Fog? [Search Research]

Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution?using whatever search technology and methodology fits the bill. This week's challenge: where can I find a view of the fog?

Once you get a reputation as a good searcher, people come and ask you all kinds of questions. Here's one my friend J asked me the other day.

She said: "There's a place not far from the Googleplex where the fog pours over the mountains in the west every afternoon during the summer. I want to find a bed-and-breakfast someplace nearby where I can watch the fog come over the ridge in the afternoon. The ideal B&B will have a view of the fog coming in on a deck or patio where I can sit with a glass of wine and just watch..."

And you know...she's right. The fog does pour over the ridgeline to the west of the Googleplex, and it is a beautiful thing to see. It never ceases to impress me as I drive down the freeway from San Francisco back to the 'Plex.

Question: Can you find a B&B (with a deck) that has a decent view of the fog coming over the ridge?

Naturally, you'll have to figure out what that foggy place is called, etc. Caution: there are several such places in the mountains, you'll have to pick the right one. (Hint: it's near a lake.) To have a decent view of the fog, the B&B should be within 10 miles of the fog. And naturally, it has to have a deck or patio.

Can you find such a place using your internet searching skills?

Search on!

Wednesday search challenge (9/5/12): A view of the fog? | SearchReSearch

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Daniel M. Russell studies the way people search and research?an anthropologist of search, if you will. You can read more from Russell on his SearchReSearch blog, and stay tuned for his weekly challenges (and answers) here on Lifehacker.

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/RVcGWTnXO2w/challenge-where-can-i-find-a-view-of-the-fog

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