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Tilden to Sonoma
Up at five thirty in the morning. From the detached guesthouse at Owen’s home, I can see the Golden Gate Bridge as dawn breaks. I watch the sky gradually change from orange to ligh…
Berkelay
From the office in San Mateo, I headed to Owen’s home in Berkelay. Along the way, I looked around the streets of Berkelay. It was quite different from Palo Alto and had a pro…
San Jose & Palo Alto
San Jose has an attraction called the Winchester Mystery House. It is a house of obsession—or perhaps delusion—that the widow of the manufacturer of Winchester rifles kept building…
Halfmoon Bay & Stanford
I left the Palace Hotel at 10 a.m. I stopped at the Longs Drug behind Visa International in Foster City and used my Citibank cash card to buy pain relievers (Naproxen Sodium/200 ca…
Fishermen’s Grotto #9
Fishermen’s Grotto #9 is an upscale seafood restaurant founded in 1935. The last time I came, I was seated on floor 1, but today I had a spacious, relaxing seat on floor 2. A…
San Francisco
For the first time in a long while, I came to San Francisco on a private trip. In the morning, I had some tough negotiations with people visiting from San Francisco, then jumped on…
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