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Tea Tasting in Chinatown
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 18 December 2009
San Francisco offers many diversions. Many people choose the classics, such as riding a cable car or touring Angel Island. Others prefer to shop and eat their way through the city. Since we're locals, we like our San Francisco adventures slightly more offbeat.
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Life is Cheap But Living is Expensive: Hickey, the Dot-Com Death March and Why There’s No Good Bands in San Francisco Anymore
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 8 December 2009
I love iTunes shuffle. On those long, bumpy bus rides through pebbly Moroccan deserts, when you’ve decided you’re sick of all 8,000 songs on your iPod, you set that baby to shuffle and bam—some blast from the past you’d totally forgotten comes blaring outta little white earpieces. And during my last trip, that blast was Hickey. If [...]
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7 Reasons to Love the San Francisco Zoo
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 18 November 2009
The fact that the San Francisco Zoo has had its fair share of negative publicity in recent years makes me sad. This is my hometown zoo. The zoo I grew up on. The zoo against which all other zoos were measured.
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Lady of the Book Sale
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Last summer in the Singapore Airport: Me: Would you call me bookish? My Boyfriend: I believe I already have called you bookish. Me: Laughter. Oh. Right.
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Lady about Town
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
I've been sick for the past few days, so I figure it's a good time to put up some pictures from all of my recent adventures in San Francisco.
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Lady to Breakers
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
This week's adventure took me home to California, and I couldn't have picked a better time to visit. The weather was hitting record highs in SF just as the London heat wave succumbed to the London rain. As if that weren't reason enough to be excited, there were two special events in the city over the weekend: Oyster Fest and Bay to Breakers. The latter is my boyfriend's favorite holiday ("it's like Christmas and New Year's combined," he says), so I knew I was in for a good time.
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Lady by the Bay
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
It's been nine months since I was last in San Francisco. That's the longest I’ve ever been away from the City by the Bay.
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Travelogue: Burning Man to Hemet, CA
Blog: Tales from Technomadia - 24 October 2009
Time Period: September 6 – October 24 Miles Driven: 1179 (not including non-RV trips) Post Burning Man we only had one specific goal – to make it to Hemet, CA for much needed down time. We had met some folks in the area during our travels earlier in the year that we only had the opportunity to visit [...]
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Airstreams and Moon Germs
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 14 September 2009
With all of the news coverage of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in the past few months, I was surprised to see almost no mention of the San Francisco Bay Area's connection to this historic event mentioned in the local papers. Only a few people I talked to knew of the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, and even fewer knew that the Hornet was the ship that recovered the astronauts from the Apollo 11 & 12 missions after splashdown.
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Madagascar to California: What’s Happening Now
Blog: 71Miles - 15 August 2009
In Madagascar last week, the director of the TV show I’m co-hosting for NatGeo asked me what I most missed about California after an arduous month on the road, and what I was looking forward to eating once I got home. Tomatoes, I said. It’s tomato season in California. Travel in Madagascar is hard—very hard. [...]
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Win a $10,000 Writer-in-Residence Contract in New York City
Blog: 71Miles - 6 August 2009
Over at our sister site, Trazzler, we’ve been busy putting together a big contest for summer—and coming up with a dream job for the winner, who will be Trazzler’s very first “writer-in-residence.” Learn more Theme: Oasis 1. n. a fertile or green area in an arid region (as a desert). 2. n. something that [...]
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Golden Gate Vertigo
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 14 July 2009
No matter how much ground I try to cover, there always seems to be more to explore in San Francisco's Presidio. People often think of Golden Gate Park as San Francisco's largest park, and it is definitely large, just slightly besting New York's Central Park in terms of overall area (and number of bison).
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Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 8 July 2009
I have a thing for Oriental stuff, so when I was going around the Golden Gate Park I had to check out what this Japanese Tea Garden was all about. I had seen a couple of pictures in my guide book and on the internet and I thought this would be a great place for [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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First-time in San Francisco
Blog: First-time Traveler - 6 July 2009
It was my first time in San Francisco. In fact, it was my first time in the US. On a bigger scale, it was my first time across the Pacific. I went to the US to attend the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. It was a big shot event opened by no less than [...]
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King Tut with Kids
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 29 June 2009
Thirty years after their first triumphant world tour, the Pharoah's treasures are on the road again. King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs opened this week at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
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Last Weeks to See Baby Chicks at Bolinas Lagoon Preserve
Blog: 71Miles - 19 June 2009
Mark your calendar: Plan a weekend daytrip to Marin before July 12th to see newborn Snowy Egrets and Great Blue Herons at Audubon Canyon Ranch, in West Marin. After Sunday, July 12, the ranch closes for summer, so the fledgling birds can find their wings in peace. Show your children these magnificent winged creatures, and [...]
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The Cupcake Crawl
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 13 June 2009
For my friend Bianca's birthday celebration last weekend, she came up with a pretty clever celebration idea: a cupcake crawl. In the more traditional pub crawl, you walk from pub to pub, end up having a bit too much beer, have a jolly time, and generally end up feeling pretty awful. For a cupcake crawl, just replace the phrase "much beer" with "many cupcakes" in the previous sentence, and you'll get the picture. To be fair, I didn't feel awful after the cupcake crawl, but by the end of the day the thought of any more sugar was honestly pretty frightening.
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Save California State Parks: A Call to Arms
Blog: 71Miles - 1 June 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed closing 200 California state parks—that’s 80% of our park system. We can stop him, but must act fast. On Tuesday, June 2, the legislature’s budget conference committee will consider this proposal. Contact your state rep now. If the parks close, they’ll get trashed—there’s no way to stop determined people from breaking into [...]
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Destination Denver
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 16 May 2009
The hardest part of travelling is the temporary aspect of everything, just as you are about settled in one place you are on to the next and the journeys can be difficult. But the journeys themselves are a big part of the adventure and as I gaze upon the spectacular backdrop of the Sierra Nevada [...]
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I’ll be back
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 15 May 2009
Some Australian girl said to me the other day: “What part of Ireland are you from?” Me “England, it’s the big bit in the middle”. Honestly. Today I tried to find the Manchester City bar but it wasn’t at the address I had, oh well. So we went into some mad old hippy joint that had a live band [...]
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Alcatraz here we come
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 14 May 2009
Beer pong is officially the finest sporting event known to man. It’s a ridiculous amount of fun (though the picture below suggests this not to be the case), the trash talk is maybe even more amusing than the pong action itself. I’m well and truly sold on it. So that was pretty much how the [...]
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The Allies
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 14 May 2009
After yesterday’s mammoth post I’m going to keep this short today and I’ve not actually done that much anyway. The main activity was a visit to The Golden Gate Bridge which I found an impressive structure, even more so than it’s big competitor The Brooklyn Bridge. Me and Sam/Simon went with a couple of lads from Sydney [...]
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Skylarking
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 12 May 2009
Day 42. Once again I was supposed to be having a quiet night, things never seem to work out quite that way though. It was ‘wine and cheese night’ at the hostel (which is massive and has a free pool and fussball table, coolio) and as we have acquired a ‘Ralphs’ (the best supermarket chain on [...]
