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"The Birds" a Horror! Movie 

Tour Highlights
  • The schoolhouse where the birds attacked
  • ​Lunch in Bodega Bay, which retains an ineffable ambience
  • Optional Activities: house featured in Hitchcock's favorite "Shadow of a Doubt, the Peanuts Museum or Luther Burbank's house and garden, a Russian River winery.​
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      Talk about your "angry birds"!...don't worry, we'll avoid them. Travel north across the Golden Gate Bridge through beautiful Marin and into Sonoma County, stopping at a celebrated country bakery in a quaint hamlet, before arriving at what was once "Potter School." Here we take pictures of it (now a private home), and the iconic church next door. We then approach Bodega Bay on the route that Melanie took and stop at the restaurant that houses a bit of the film's memorabilia from the film.
     The town's a great place for a lunch of fresh seafood. Afterwards (if time permits) we can take a lovely backroad to the picturesque Victorian town of Occidental—which has nothing to do with the movie, but everything to do with its unique charm. These unspoiled landscapes retain much of the mystical ambience that beguiled Hitchcock.
     Mid- and late afternoon offer many options: driving through Santa Rosa's beautiful Victorian neighborhood to see the house from "Shadow of a Doubt"--Hitchcock's personal favorite of his films; a visit to the "Peanuts" (Charles M. Schultz) Museum; time in the garden devoted to botanical pioneer Luther Burbank; tasting at one of the Russian River region's great wineries--all this, without a single pecked-out eye or bleeding torso :-)

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Why Tour with Us to Experience Locales from Hitchcock's "The Birds," and not just rent your own car?  Because driving yourself, you'll waste time figuring out exactly where everything is, and you'll be tired when you get there. With us, you'll hear stories of the places in which the characters lived and Hitchcock worked, while enjoying the views.
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