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  • Travel with a Twist

  • Waiting On Bart
  • Watching the sun slip by while waiting for a train.

  • A Hot Day In The Mission
  • The Mission is the warmest neighborhood in the city, but still this kind of heat is only common for a few days a year.

  • Contemplating Koi
  • I could make an effort to go somewhere. …

  • Chinatown’s Buddha Bar
  • In the heart of Chinatown there is a bar that is dedicated to Buddha in name only.

  • SideTrips

  • An Afternoon At Moe’s
  • Moe’s used to have the aroma of old books mixed with cigars. Moe smoked cigars endlessly as he worked, he always had one in his mouth. Now, with Moe gone, the old book aroma predominates …

  • Hess Collection Winery
  • We drove north on Highway 29, following in the footsteps or wheel tracks of many an area visitor who has taken this popular side trip out of San Francisco to Napa Valley, otherwise known as The Wine Country.

  • The Big Trees of Muir Woods
  • Redwoods are not the easiest things in the world to shoot. They tend to stray out of the picture frame. [...]

  • Dia de los Muertos | Day of the Dead
  • Every year on the Sunday closest to November 2, Oakland’s large Latin American community celebrates The Day of the Dead with a street festival in the very Latin neighborhood of Fruitvale.

  • Culture

  • Diego Rivera In San Francisco
  • … and a bit of a biography. One of his first murals in the US was the Alegoría de California/Allegory of California, in the Pacific Stock Exchange Tower in San Francisco.

  • Glide Memorial Church
  • The line went up the block and around the corner. Krystell, Martine, Thierry, and I had spent an awfully long time looking for parking in this just to the left of downtown San Francisco area. We finally decided on a parking garage, just for the convenience, and, as it was, we weren’t even sure that [...]

  • The Murals of The Mission
  • The neighborhood is full of color, scents, too much hip along with a lot of grit.

  • Food for the Table

  • Mission Pie
  • Mission Pie has been on the corner of Mission and 25th Street for a few years now. Both a cafe and a pie shop, don’t imagine a diner or a bakery.

  • Ice Cream In The Mission
  • Recently, during a week’s stay in The Mission District of San Francisco, I threw caution to wind.

  • Dinner At L’Osteria Del Forno
  • The beauty of this little restaurant is its size. Ten tables at most and there is almost always a line at the door.

  • St. Francis Fountain
  • I headed down 24th towards York. I decided that because it’s Monday, it would be a great day to go to the St. Francis Fountain for eggs and home fries.

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