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Category: (Technology Showcase)
... to stretch your stay. Airbnb says its San Francisco guests stay an average of 5.5 days compared to 3.5 for hotel guests. Then there is the matter free parking, local stores where water costs much less ...Created on 15 May 2013 -
Category: (People We've Met)
... broadcast ended. Thomas had a tale at the ready for every person we met, including me. As we stepped into a limo on Townsend Street in San Francisco, he said he remembered when the Bay came up to ...Created on 01 May 2013 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... This poster by Francisco Tamagno is just one of several Belle Epoque posters depicting the art of promotion and the seductive qualities of drink at Silverado Vineyards in California's Napa Valley. ...Created on 16 April 2013 -
Category: (Science & Technology)
Trash Sweepers Clock - All Photos (c) Russell Johnson San Francisco's Exploratorium, a reboot of the pioneering, hands-on science museum that had lived in a dark cavern at San Francisco's Palace of Fine ...Created on 13 April 2013 -
Category: (Science & Technology)
... Restaurant at the new San Francisco Exploratorium We are treating ourselves to precious 2-inch squares of tender honey-filled comb sections that lean up on a soft mound of Straus Family Creamery yogurt ...Created on 13 April 2013 -
Category: (Science & Technology)
... Francisco Bay. Something aptly nicknamed rock vomit is spreading across the ocean floor off of Alaska, threatening sea life. The zebra mussel was introduced to the Great Lakes by a freighter in 1988 and ...Created on 01 April 2013 -
Category: (Editors and Contributors)
... background. After working as a graphic artist and cartoonist at San Francisco's KQED public television she became Public Affairs Director for KLOK Radio in San Jose, California, meeting with grass roots ...Created on 28 March 2013 -
Category: (Editors and Contributors)
... Radio, to CBS's WCCO-TV, McClatchy Broadcasting in Sacramento, California and to KRON-TV and KABL Radio in San Francisco. He left broadcasting to teach, spending four years on the faculty of Broadcast ...Created on 28 March 2013 -
Category: (Science & Technology)
This exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is not in oils or watercolors, but in projectors, cameras, radio-electric scanners, antennae, radios and eight channel sound. We shot a short video. ...Created on 12 December 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... and real estate sites, police reports, and dozens of other sources, some quite esoteric. Just where is the Goodyear Blimp, anyhow? On San Francisco's Market Street you can take an historical earthquake ...Created on 22 June 2012 -
Category: (Essays)
... shop in San Francisco with so many volumes on the second floor that I always feared it would collapse and I would perish under several tons of weighty words. When my kids were small we did family outings ...Created on 04 June 2012 -
Category: (Wine Country)
All Photos (c)2011 Russell Johnson Carneros is a wine growing region that straddles the Sonoma AND Napa Valleys and San Francisco Bay. Its coolish climate is primo for Chardonnays, Pinot Noirs, Syrahs, ...Created on 22 November 2011 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... of "tourist town." Sonoma was once capitol of the secessionist (from Mexico) Bear Flag Republic, which lasted 29 days. Mission San Francisco Solano, the northernmost of the California missions ...Created on 22 November 2011 -
Category: (Wine Country)
... California has gained the status of "tourist town." Sonoma was once capitol of the secessionist (from Mexico) Bear Flag Republic, which lasted 29 days. Mission San Francisco Solano, the northernmost ...Created on 22 November 2011 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
Now Playing! Some 20 videos from The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase. For all of them, go here. tzXR1nYboG0Created on 27 May 2011 -
Category: (Video)
00UaTF7Eefg iPad/iPod Video This place makes me happy. Filoli is a US National Historical Trust site and a California State Historic Landmark. Located south of San Francisco, it is considered one of ...Created on 05 May 2011 -
Category: (US/Canada)
I took a hike through San Francisco's Presidio a couple of weeks ago and saw how artist Andy Goldsworthy managed to create something of beauty out of destruction. Cypress bark beetles had made a feast ...Created on 07 July 2010 -
Category: (Essays)
... and Bay in San Francisco and pinkish western landscapes. One of the best examples of cliché America is a propaganda film called Portraits of America produced by Disney for the US State Department and ...Created on 14 March 2009 -
Category: (US/Canada)
http://connectedtraveler.com/Media/AcadScience/AcadofSciences.swf I spent a day at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. You really have to get there early to see ...Created on 11 November 2008 -
Category: (Asia)
Last month I visited doctors twice: in San Francisco to have a spot of sun damage checked, and in Bangkok for a physical. As Mrs. Kuchenbecker, my sixth grade teacher said, "Let us compare und contrast." ...Created on 30 May 2008