SF FoodWars had the best of the best when it came to side dishes. The theme for the cook-off this time around was “Holiday Fixins” which meant yummy cornbread, creamed spinach, cranberry sauce, pumpkin bread pudding, mashed potatoes…
Mike looked around and said, “Let’s get out of here. Now.” The RV park we were staying at didn’t have a good vibe. Contrary to what I think most RV vacationers are like (see left), they were, at least for the majority, very cold.
We had an amazing lunch in wine country, then we headed west towards the coast, stopping at whatever looked interesting. We decided to stay at an RV park at Bodega Bay that night which had running water and a shower (thank god!).
There’s nothing like a last-minute adventure. We had nothing planned, which felt fantastic. We had the bus to sleep in, clothes, tools (in case something broke on the way), and an entire weekend to look forward to.
Meet Tom. He’s works at a design firm during the week, and a beekeeper on weekends. He lives in the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco, where he tends the beehive in the community garden.
Urban Ore Ecopark is part junkyard, part thrift store, and part garage sale. It has everything you’re looking for, and lots of it. Need a new window? A vintage teapot? A seat from a rollercoaster? They got it, and one in every size and color you can imagine.
The Maker Faire encourages do-it-yourself-ers to come and display their best - everything from steam powered machines, to homemade robots, to alternative bikes and cars. I loved it. Then again, I’m quite curious, and super-geeky.
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Vegas is the perfect weekend getaway. It was only a three day trip (Sun-Mon), but we were able to cram in a lot of activities into that time! Our trip was a sweet, sweet deal - it came to about $300 which included one Cirque show, round trip airfare (SFO to Vegas), and 2 nights at the Excalibur hotel. There is an upside to a recession.
My goal: to eat my way from one end of the Greek Festival to the other. I LOVE Greek food. I love it so much, I put this festival on my calendar a year ago, and I’ve been anticipating the dolmas, gyros, and baklavas since then.
I went on a safari! Not in Africa…just right here in Northern California. Safari West is a drive-through wildlife park - you sign up for a tour, and a guide takes you in an open-air Jeep ride through the entire property.
Mike wanted to get ideas on how to restore a bus, I wanted to hug a round shiny one. So we went to the 2009 Niello VW Ranch Run & Car Show this Sunday. The show was all about quirky-old-slow-round-puttputputputtt cars, and it included an incredible range of classic VW cars - Bugs, Buses, Karmann [...]
I volunteered at a great event this weekend - the “Wii Build Event”. About 130 people showed up at a local church to unpackage, assemble, and organize 70 Wii stations–each going into a room at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, CA and at the children’s wing at the UCSF hospital in San [...]
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