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Think Outside the Device and Get a Real Map
January 26, 2017
Okay, let’s think “outside the box here”, that box-like electronic device. Our dependence on cell phones, computers, tablets and navigation systems begs the question: what did we do before all these toys? In the case of travel planning, we looked at maps before going off on our journey. This may…
Travel to the San Francisco Bay Area
November 30, 2016
As a tourist, to understand the City of San Francisco use the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA MAP to see San Francisco in its context on the Peninsula. The terrain of the region is versatile, with many views of the Bay from the hills to the north and east of San…
Travel to the Beautiful City of San Francisco
October 31, 2016
The City of San Francisco is unique and wonderful. Blessed with a temperate climate and set on naturally beautiful terrain surrounded on three sides by water. The topography of its many hills offers splendid vistas. Views of the Pacific Ocean from the beaches, views from Twin Peaks over the City or…
U.S. Route 66 – Main Street of America Part II
September 29, 2016
Continued from Part 1 1950’s: Postwar Boom As automobile and truck traffic increased, the businesses along U.S. Route 66 served the travelers’ needs. Service stations, restaurants, auto camps and cottages, later motels, sprang up, some of them in the most astonishing architectural styles – restaurants in the form of a…
U.S. Route 66 – Main Street of America
September 15, 2016
Do you want to go back to the road’s very beginnings? Or experience somewhere along the way at a diner, in an “oldies” car, or perhaps in a teepee? Find out what the road was, from Steinbeck’s to Bobby Troop’s vision of it. Weathered, withered, wondrous: the Okie’s ‘glory road’….