Mill Valley
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Tam Junction needs a genuine everyday anchor — a market or grocer like a smaller Good Earth — so people run errands here instead of driving up to downtown Mill Valley or over the hill. An anchor that brings people in daily is what keeps the smaller shops around it alive.
Check the Throckmorton Theatre calendar before your visitor comes. It is a tiny Mill Valley venue that pulls in surprisingly big comedy and music names on a Tuesday, and the room is small enough that there is not a bad seat. Cheap, local, and the kind of night people do not expect from "the suburbs."
For a Mill Valley morning that is not a hike: breakfast at the Dipsea Cafe, then the easy walk to Cascade Falls (twenty minutes, runs best after rain). The Sequoia for an afternoon film or the Sweetwater for a show if your visitor is staying into the evening.
