We leave tomorrow for a week in Hawaii and I’ve been trying to prepare myself for the insanity of today, the day before, but there really is no way to prepare. Today is the longest journey. Of course there is the packing . . . but that isn’t all of it. There are the animals:…
Category: travel
Without My Camera in Hawaii: Questions on how to best use my iPhone camera (an addendum)
My camera broke yesterday. Unceremoniously, my little Canon workhorse just stopped working. The timing couldn’t be worse as we’re leaving for our Hawaiian vacation before it will be back from the “authorized dealer” to whom I have to mail it today. What to do? (other than cry, that is . . . ) I thought,…
The Palace of the Legion of Honor: A Welcome Escape (Write Every Day, 15)
Temps around here climbed over 100 degrees yesterday, so what was a family to do? We escaped to San Francisco, where it’s always cooler in the summertime. In fact, it was SF Perfect. We made our way over to the Palace of the Legion of Honor. I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 30 years,…
When you live in an old cow town, they run the cattle down Main Street to open the County Fair! (Write Every Day #12)
We are a suburb of SF, but we are an old cow town. Today, all of Pleasanton lined Main Street, waiting for the cows to come home. There I am, one among hundreds. Maybe thousands. They rarely close Main Street, except for our monthly street fair through the summer, but our town is known for…
There be whales! Voyaging out to the Farallon Islands
This is the year to get out on SF Bay to get a glimpse of whales, those giants of the ocean. In other years, the whales might have proven to be elusive — but for some reason, science-related no doubt, there are pods and pods of them, EVERYWHERE. A group of friends and I headed…
