Richmond, California is not a huge tourist city because of its high crime rate, but a sunset arrival into the marina shows a more attractive side of this city on the San [...]

One of the best street art pieces I have see is this one of Cha Cha Dance Steps on the sidewalk in Napa, California. How can you not stop and try it [...]

One of the tallest of the hills/mountains around the San Francisco Bay Area is Mount Tamalpais or Mount Tam as it is usually called. At only 2571 feet the hike to the [...]

I reviewed the iPad (iBooks) version of Laura Schaefer’s Planet Explorers Walt Disney World 2012: A Travel Guide for Kids. It can be downloaded for $3.99 from the Planet Explorer’s website. Even [...]

The Embarcadero in San Francisco is a great place for a walk on a beautiful day. Pier 28 is one of the many piers around the bay. Many have been turned into [...]

This photo of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset was taken from Crissy Field. Crissy Field was an airfield from 1921 to 1936. One reason to close the field was someone built [...]

It was only after I took this picture of the rocket ship street art in San Francisco that I noticed the homeless person sleeping in the foreground of the picture. I found [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Carlos Gutierrez about his home town of San Antonio, Texas. Carlos gives us a guide to some of the obvious spots like the Alamo but also shares [...]

Shown next to my lovely assistant for scale, this is what a main suspension cable from the Golden Gate Bridge looks like in cross-section. The steel for the cables was supplied, at [...]

Half Dome in Yosemite National Park is one of the National Parks that is one of over 100 parks with 17 free entrance days this year.