I was immediately fascinated by Laura Del Rosso when I met her at the Pearltrees blogger lunch at the Waterbar in San Francisco. She wrote a book titled Great Escapes: Northern California and has created some travel apps for San Francisco. She agreed to be interviewed!
Read moreLast night I went to the Sausalito Cruising Club. This is one of Marin’s best kept secrets. It’s actually a yacht club but I have a feeling it is nothing like what you visualize when you hear the words yacht club.
Read moreMill Valley is special. We have two Whole Foods within 1.2 miles of each other and we have two frozen yogurt places within two blocks of each other not to mention the one located downtown or the one in Strawberry Village. Off the top of my head I can think of four frozen yogurt places in Mill Valley (and Mill Valley is not a big city!) Funny thing is, only 13,000 people live in Mill Valley. I guess you could say Mill Valley really likes healthy food and frozen yogurt.
Read moreLast night I found myself at a Pinot Noir wine tasting event. You may have noticed talking wine is not my specialty. In an effort to live up to the mission of this blog I decided to get out of my comfort zone and go to this Pinot Noir TweetUp tasting. Mention the words Twitter or TweetUp in anything and I’m there.
Read moreGrocery Shopping in San Rafael: a cultural experience. If you have driven through the Canal area of San Rafael on Bellam lately I’m sure you’ve noticed quite a few changes. The old sleepy Circuit City is now a booming Latino grocery store called Mi Pueblo.
Read moreIn my last blog post I mentioned I met another Sally. I know Sally probably sounds like a pretty regular name to you but it’s not a very common name. So… when I meet another Sally, I make an occasion out of it. Turns out this Sally is doing some pretty interesting things.
Read moreThis week my bro-in-law came to town for a few very short hours. I wanted to show him some of my local favorites so I first took him to Café Flore on the corner of Market & Noe (in the Castro area).
Read moreI’m so happy Mill Valley finally has a brewery! Thanks to @SFDoug I got to try Mill Valley Beerworks.
Read moreToday I had lunch with other Bay Area bloggers and Patrice Lamothe, the CEO of PearlTrees. We all met at Waterbar in San Francisco. This lunch was arranged by Renée Blodgett from Weblogtheworld.
Read moreThis past weekend there was a special TweetUp where all sides of the Bay came together. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend this TweetUp but thankfully Marilyn (aka @fun_master) offered to write a guest post about it and share some photos with us.
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