RE: Zodiac Killers 14

Petaluma, huh? I spent close to a month couch-surfing with a friend down there (close to Rohnert Park) back in the late 90's. Nice area overall, but there were two things that bothered me about the location. The first was the bad traffic around Highway 101 (which I later learned was a cakewalk compared to further south). But the second was the all-too-frequent stink of animals & manure from the surrounding ranches and such you'd sometimes experience at night-time, which I was told was nick-named "The Sonoma Aroma".

I can only surmise that there must have been a butt-load of said ranches and animals, because at our summer house in Mongolia there's no shortage of horses, cows, sheep, & yaks in the surrounding area and I never noticed the same level of smell as I did in Petaluma! 😉