Northern California Things to see and do Travel Articles

Getting Here – San Francisco, California, USA

Getting Here By Air San Francisco International Airport (SFO) SFO is the airport of choice for international travel to San Francisco and the Bay Area, with direct service to 62 cities around the globe. The new International Terminal, which will be the largest in the U.S., is scheduled to open before the end of the [...]

Getting Around – San Francisco, California, USA

Getting Around One of San Francisco’s greatest assets, in my opinion, is its compact size. It is a world-class city, but you could literally walk from one end of it to the other in a few hours (assuming you were wearing good boots, of course!). When you are ready to give your feet a rest, [...]

Cheap Eats Along the Way – San Francisco, California, USA

Cheap Eats Along the Way You’ll walk a lot in San Francisco, whether you intend to or not and those hills can make you hungry. Popular belief has it that if every San Franciscan went to sit down at a restaurant at the same time on any given night, there would be enough seats to [...]

Links – San Francisco, California, USA

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Books on San Francisco – San Francisco, California, USA

Books on San Francisco Supplement what you learn here with these guides and books. Travelers’ Tales San Francisco Rough Guide San Francisco 12 Short Hikes San Francisco Bay Area – Coastal Areas Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community The Annals of San Francisco Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the [...]

Accommodation – San Francisco, California, USA

Accommodation Although you may see many folks with bedrolls camping on sidewalks and in parks – these are members of the city’s hard-core homeless crowd who won’t take attempts to crash on their turf lightly. Get yourself a room for the night. Virtually every major hotel chain can be found here. Some alternatives include: Cheap [...]

Sequoia/King’s Canyon Nat’l Parks, California – July 1999

It was early in the morning when I began climbing the road into the Sierra Nevadas where Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are located. As the altitude increased, the trees began picking up a magical frost and the deciduous forest of the valley slowly mixed with, and eventually gave way, to Evergreens. Waters merge [...]

Redwoods National Park, California – June 1999

Big Trees!! I came to Redwoods N.P. for the first time about 2 years ago. When people asked me to describe it to them, it was one of the few places for which I just couldn’t find words. The easy thing to say about the Redwoods is: “There’s big trees…. I mean really big trees… [...]