We’re experiencing our first snow in about a year. We flew to Denver Thursday, and it snowed that evening. Friday morning we wore several layers and walked the 1.3 miles from our Capitol Hill apartment to the state capitol only to find the state legislators had called a snow day. We had been looking forward…
We’re a flurry of activity as our time in San Francisco winds to a close. Today we walked to the California Academy of Sciences – a really neat natural history museum which also has a rainforest, aquarium, and live penguins which we watched being fed. We saw the planetarium show Cosmic Collisions which was excellent,…
We climbed up the northern Twin Peak about 5 pm today as the fog rolled across parts of the city. Here are the views.
We left the house at 7:40 am today and now at nearly 6 pm are on a bus about a half hour from home. I figured out how to use my cell phone as a hotspot and am typing this on the iPad. We went to the Santa Clara Convention Center today – nearly five…
Did you know the WWII peace treaty between the US and Japan was signed in San Francisco in 1951? We read that information today on a sign at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. I remember seeing a photo of MacArthur and a number of Naval officers watching the Japanese foreign minister sign…
We took a half-hour bus ride to the Caltrain station this morning and then a 42-minute, express train to Mountain View before getting on a free (Google-sponsored) shuttle bus for a few minutes and arriving at the Computer History Museum. The exhibits are really neat and include not only a UNIVAC and an ENIAC but…
The college students returned to campus this week, so we did, too. Charlie has been wanting to go up in Sather Tower, a campanile (bell and clock tower); but it’s mostly only open when school is in session. It costs a couple dollars per person to go up to the observation deck at 200 feet;…
We got sidetracked on our way to Lombard Street earlier in the week, briefly taking in the sights in The Castro and further on at a pretty Episcopal church – Grace Cathedral. Then we walked up the stairs next to twisty-turny Lombard Street before heading down to Pier 39 again so Charlie could get his…
We ate a late lunch/early dinner at the Cliff House at Ocean Beach today. There are huge windows all around so you can look out at the Pacific Ocean and Seal Rocks. We thought there would be seals at Seal Rocks which was one of the big incentives for our going. However, we found out…
We bought a basketball earlier this week at Sports Authority and shot some baskets at Balboa Park (not to be confused with the park of the same name in San Diego) a couple days later. Charlie couldn’t bounce the ball despite my demonstrations, explanation, and hand-over-hand help. Then twice when I passed him the ball,…
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 