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Places to Explore

Tourist traps, museums, neon, places to grab a bite to eat, and rest your head.

Mission Dolores

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UPDATE: It is important to remember that while California Missions have been hailed as places of peace, they also have deep and complicated histories, including slavery, violence, and forced religious conversion. My last stop on this trip to San Francisco was Mission Dolores.  It was on our way back to the airport, and so Patrick…

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In Search of Vertigo

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San Francisco has certainly changed, that’s for sure.  I thought that locating many of the filming sites from Vertigo would be rather simple, heck I had a book to tell me, didn’t I? Well…think again. As I walked the streets of San Francisco on the hunt for what remained of Hitchcock’s “tortured Valentine” to the…

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Warhawk Air Museum

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Yesterday I returned from Idaho after visiting for my grandmother’s services.  The weekend included going through my grandmother’s belongings, sorting items to be donated, and ones that I, my mother, my aunt or my cousin wanted.  The amount I ended up taking home proved to be quite a lot, and thus had to be shipped. …

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