This Mission is a wonderful place to enjoy the great Southern California sunshine.
One small example of the beautiful flowers you can enjoy at the Mission San Juan Capistrano.
On a long Friday lunch, my friend Jed and I embarked on a tourist journey a few minutes from work to Fort Point.
The Fort is only open on Friday, as luck would have it, and we ended shooting all the film we had in our pockets that day.
Here, in one of the rooms far at the west end of the fort's top floor, I could not believe the light that came through the aged old windows.
On a long Friday lunch, my friend Jed and I embarked on a tourist journey a few minutes from work to Fort Point.
The Fort is only open on Friday, as luck would have it, and we ended shooting all the film we had in our pockets that day.
I walked on to the top floor, and looked down this hallway, and froze in my tracks, and yelled, "Jed, come quick, and bring the tripod!"
While i was taking the time to appreciate that beautiful bridge, my camera did the same... for a few seconds.
Golden Gate, San Francisco, California, USA
The Ergo Baby Carrier is a must have for traveling. Leave the bulky backpack carrier at home.
One of San Francisco's most recognizable streets, it's almost cliché to come here during a visit to the city, but the novelty of such an unusual street is inarguably fun. Most locals never come here, but visitors line up for a block or two west of Hyde Street to drive down the eight or so bends at five miles per hour, while others taking photographs line the sidewalk staircases on either side.
Originally built in 1915 for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the Palace itself is antique architecture - the massive columns dwarf human scale. It's very Arcadian or Picturesque - there's a swan-inhabited man-made lake.
This is what it is now, not what it was then...
The nearby Exploratorium is a science-based art gallery with exhibits designed by some amazing artists that work with natural phenomena like Ned Kahn and Doug Hollis - great on a rainy weekday if you can swing it....
Caffe Trieste, in San Francisco's Little Italy, is the coolest coffee shop in the world. Caffe Trieste was opened in 1956 by Giovanni Giotta, or Pappa Gianni as he is known to friends and family.