First stop on my mom’s tour of the Bay Area was San Francisco. Next, we went to Napa Valley to tour a castle! But there were a few obstacles: I rarely ever drink wine (or any alcohol for that...
First stop on my mom’s tour of the Bay Area was San Francisco. Next, we went to Napa Valley to tour a castle! But there were a few obstacles: I rarely ever drink wine (or any alcohol for that...
Does anyone else find it strange that 1.4 million visitors flock to the famous Alcatraz Island every year to tour an old prison? The one San Francisco attraction that everyone kept urging me to take...
The first time I saw CREAM was when I went to Berkeley with a friend. The line was out the door and all the way down the sidewalk. “No,” I said when I saw the wait. “There is no way...
The Mission District is an interesting place. Heavily Latino, yet wonderfully diverse; artistic and grungy, yet beautiful. I love it all. It’s San Francisco’s oldest neighborhood and is...
“Oh, just look at this piece!” The woman in the flowing orange garments sighs as she gestures with a wide sweep of her bangled arm to a statue of a man with a shoe in his mouth...
Two weeks ago I drove to the coastal town of Half Moon Bay, stumbled upon a hole-in-the-wall deli with a line halfway down the block, braved the long line and hectic ordering process, and ate the...
California is the stuff of dreams. My guess is you either sighed in longing or rolled your eyes in annoyance at the above statement. Either way, bear with me. How many times have you heard someone...