Face Your Fears: Eight Thrilling Experiences in the Bay Area to Help You Live a Little
Race a car, cruise in a seaplane, get up close to sharks—you’ll be just fine...
TravelA collection of 148 posts
Ten Quintessentially Quirky Airbnbs in California
Book a gingerbread cottage, a lighthouse keeper’s apartment—even a magic school bus....
Planet Sierra
(Read while doing your best David Attenborough impression)...
How MacArthur Boulevard Takes You Through the Heart of Oakland
A journey through the city’s past, present and future...
Why I Love Living in North Beach (Redux for 2017)
And it’s not just because of the pizza...
Leaving San Francisco for Portland
I made the pilgrimage to Portlandia, and I don’t regret it...
Overheard at Outside Lands 2017
By Wendy Oakes In between the music and the din of the crowd at Outside Lands, some pretty hilarious and...
Moving to San Francisco from a Small Town
Jackson has fewer than 5,000 residents....
One-Star Yelp Reviews of LA’s Famed Attractions
“It’s letters on a hillside. That’s it. Yawn.”...
The Best and Worst Rooms in the Winchester Mystery House to Have Sex in
Over the years, a legend has built up around the heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune and the labyrinthine mansion...
Tourists Ruined the Golden Gate Bridge
I love the Golden Gate Bridge. I have no fewer than five prints, paintings and photos of the thing in...
Lost in Lost Hills
Halfway between SF and LA, near the site where James Dean died, sits the tiny town of Lost Hills. After being stranded there for two days, we started to go insane....