Picks and Pans – South Bay

PICKS:

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Just for kicks, Sean and I rode along with our friend Dan to his meeting at Stanford, and while Dan was busy with work, we explored the campus. Along the way, and with a little help from the campus map, we found the Cantor Arts Center. We entered […]

Picks and Pans – Around Point Reyes National Seashore

PICKS: Limantour Beach

Admittedly, driving to Point Reyes on a Saturday afternoon was a bad idea and I should have mentally prepared myself for driving amongst the leapfrogging line of aggressive wannabe sports car drivers that surrounded us the entire way there. Lacking such mental preparation, I began to envision a weekend filled with crowds […]

Picks and Pans – San Francisco/Bay Area, Part II

PICKS: SFMOMA

The first Tuesday of every month is the free day at most San Francisco museums and, being that we are enthusiasts of both free things and museums, we were pretty happy to partake in the November day of gratis museum going. Being at a museum on the free day is especially pleasurable because […]

Picks and Pans – San Francisco/Bay Area, Part I

PICKS: Sufficient Grounds in Berkeley

A GPS is a useful gadget, but its utility is greatly limited by the fact that the world (and especially infrastructure) is continually changing, while the GPS’s maps are not. Let’s say, for example, the Bay Bridge is closed, but your GPS doesn’t know about this and is assuredly leading […]

Picks and Pans – Mammoth Lakes, CA

PICKS: Stellar Brew

Mammoth Lakes is a serious ski town, really an all around mountain sports town, and there is no greater evidence of this than the morning conversations at Stellar Brew. Locals gussied up in their down and fleece come by for their morning caffeine fix and stop to discuss climbing/hiking/mountain biking plans for […]