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Terracotta Travelers
For as long as I’ve known of their existence I have longed to see them. Forever after I assumed that meant going to China and, given our travel plans, China always seemed forever away. It never really occurred to me that they might actually come here. You see, they don’t get around much and I can’t really blame them, being clay and all.
Memory Lane at the Museum
One hundred years after Thomas Moran painted his 1912 work Grand Canyon with Rainbow (left), we discovered it pretty much exactly as he had left it (right).
A collection of travel-related magnets on a friend’s refrigerator in Seattle recently inspired a guessing game; one of our newfound favorites, actually. It’s the same game we played to an audience of salespeople at a Peter Lik photography gallery in Las Vegas. To their great annoyance (and our great amusement) we showed far less interest in spending thousands of dollars on glossy, wall-sized landscapes than we did in guessing their location.
The Golden Gate Bridge
As seen from the Marin Headlands
The other great thing about large cities is all that stuff you did the last time you were here is totally worth doing again.
Where’s Waldo?
Shannon atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Or, more accurately, where in the world are we? It’s a continuing source of confusion for our readers that our blog writing considerably lags our travels. By the time a post gets published, we’ve long since moved on from that location – meaning that the wonderful tips we get from readers by e-mail and in comments often reach us too late.
We’ve also been a bit reluctant to post more regularly on our Facebook Page for fear of creating additional confusion about where we are and what we’re doing.
So we’re making a small addition to the blog we hope will help correct these problems. In the right hand column, in the Meet Brian and Shannon section, beneath the photo of our big melons, you’ll now find a brief note about where we are currently and where we plan to go next.
Hopefully this small addition will help close the gap between our blog, our real-time travels, and our Facebook musings (of which we expect to do more.) In the meantime, keep those great tips coming.
San Francisco Second Takes
Foggy view from the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
You’ve seen the Golden Gate Bridge and ridden the cable cars. You’ve driven the crookedest street in America, ferried to The Rock, and climbed Coit Tower. You’ve been here before and so had we. But that doesn’t mean you’ve “done” San Francisco. Not even close.
The wonderful thing about large cities is that their main attractions are really only appetizers for dozens of other lesser frequented sites, streets, neighborhoods and activities. Here are four that occupied us during our most recent trip to the City by the Bay (five if you count the Legion of Honor pictured above).
Everywhere Once 