Robert Louis Stevenson State Park 2017. Robert Louis Stevenson State Park Robert Louis Stevenson State Park is a California state park, located in Sonoma, Lake and Napa counties. The park offers a hike to the summit of Mount Saint Helena from which much of the Bay Area can be seen. On clear days it is possible to see the peak of Mount Shasta, distant. The park is named after Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped". In 1880, Stevenson and his new wife Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne spent their honeymoon living in a cabin at a played-out mine on the mountain along with
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea when he wrote his best-selling novel "Room at the Top". Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is a small town in Northumberland, England, on the North Sea coast. Once an important port for shipping grain and a coal mining town, it is still a small fishing port making use of traditional coble boats. Newbiggin derives its name from the Old English "nīwe" (new) + Middle English "bigging" (building, house), and may refer to an extension of the early settlement and parish of Woodhorn. The church was for centuries a chapel only, with a tower surmounted by a spire which was originally used as a