Tag: San Francisco

  • SF IV: Golden Gate, Land and Sea

    What’s a San Francisco series without obligatory Golden Gate photos? I certainly wouldn’t know. We had lots of opportunities to take pictures of the Golden Gate. Chadoh found a nifty little sunset cruise for us to take on our second night there. It was an anniversary trip, after all. The Adventure Cat took us out…

  • SF III: Flora and Fauna

    San Francisco is a magical land where succulents grow like shrubbery outside. For scale: Succulent next to man. The types of growing things also changed dramatically from one place to another. Here, by the Golden Gate, everything looked like a dusty-colored version of itself.  The sea lions were so very strange. I don’t know that I had…

  • SF II: Dark and Light

    San Francisco is a city of dark and light. The murals were beautiful. The people and the community we found there were helpful and inspiring. While walking through the Latino Mission looking for murals, we found a woman breaking a glass bottle to collect discarded cigarette remains to smoke. On Monday night, after a beautiful…

  • SF I

    San Francisco may have been one of the best vacations I have ever taken. Granted, as a farm kid, my family wasn’t able to travel a lot, so my vacation experience is limited (though I think all the time I spent in Spain probably more than makes up for that). It was more or less…

  • SF bound

    This morning, Chad bought our plane tickets to San Francisco! I’m hoping to find some interesting places to go. My travel M.O. has typically been to wander around until I find something that looks interesting. This often results in hunger, exhaustion, and frustration, especially if other people are involved. (The day we wandered up and…