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Reviews
 Discovery Museum Puts Kids on TV, Underwater
Monday, May 15 @ 12:00:00 PDT
When we hit the Bay Area Discovery Museum, we had modest expectations. After all, we’re hitting all the best attractions in town and some of these places charge crazy top dollar to let us in to see what they have, but this place charges less than expected while giving more than you’d expect, specifically, they sink your kids and put them on television… what on earth?
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 IMAX Whelms Sensory Senses Totally Over
Saturday, May 13 @ 12:00:00 PDT
I’m a child of the modern era and one not easily impressed. Today’s kids got Electro Games of Boy, Stations of Play, Boxes of X and more extreme sports than you could shake a broken leg at, though we don’t actually have any of them personally. Still, with big TVs everywhere and endless cartoons on demand plus another million things on the TiVo, it’s really hard to show me anything with the hope it will overwhelm me, but IMAX may be the one true exception.
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 Hotel Del Sol es Mismo Del Fun
Friday, May 12 @ 12:00:00 PDT
When we decided to take our own personal holiday to San Francisco, we looked all throughout our guidebooks and the Internet too to find the best place to give our hard-earned shekels in trade for odd nights of accommodation, so we weighed it heavily, looked at all our options, and came up with only one conclusion, the Hotel Del Sol.
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 Bakery Museum Boasts 5-Star Exhibits, One True History
Thursday, May 11 @ 09:00:00 PDT
We took a fine lunch break on our perusal of the San Francisco waterfront, and it recharged our batteries fully to 100%. It was a great lunch at Boudin Bakery, and we enjoyed it fully, but when we headed upstairs to the museum, we should have known that our handlers were only recharged to about 80%. What can I say, parental folks are decidedly “old”, and their batteries have memory problems.
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 Bay’s Boudin Bistro Boasts 150 Yrs of Fresh Bread
Wednesday, May 10 @ 14:00:00 PDT
If you’re laying your day in the historically touristy hotbed of San Francisco’s waterfront, you’ll want to catch everything from Pier 39 to Pier 43 to even Pier 45. Somewhere in that mix is Fisherman’s Wharf, but it’s no matter because by this point you’re already hungry, and I’ve got just the place for you. It’s called Boudin Bakery (plus bistro, restaurant and museum) and it’s got an age-old history of fresh bread dating back a billion years.
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 Out-a-Town Motels Spell Best Value, Least Attitude
Monday, May 08 @ 12:00:00 PDT
During our lengthy visit to San Francisco, we had intended to check out two hotels and maybe a couple bed & breakfasts for a single day, but as with everything in our lives, you just never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next. If your yesterday had a promise that today can’t deliver and your budget feels as strained as it is, don’t feel bad, just hop back in the ride and get out of town.
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 Santa Cruz Mystery Spot Knocked Me Off My Feet
Saturday, May 06 @ 12:00:00 PDT
I’ve traveled this grand continent of Northern America far (though not wide) and I’ve seen everything from wicked, steep mountains to tapers in heat, but I’ve never found a place capable of knocking me off my feet quite like the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz. Call me one year old if you like, but I know gravity, and this place has it all wonky and then some.
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 Avoiding No-Name Motels for Fun, Safety and Value
Thursday, April 27 @ 12:00:00 PDT
Whenever you travel you face the agest oldest debate of working with the name brand chains versus going somewhere smaller, though ostensibly equally convenient motels for you accommodations. Take it from me, the reputable name is far more than it may seem, and not just because you’ll be more sure of avoiding a landslide of criminal drug addicts.
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 Book Review: Fodor’s San Francisco 2006
Tuesday, April 25 @ 12:00:00 PDT
As any loyal reader of Perplexing Times must know, we’ve collectively traveled half the earth in the capacity of journalist, but this was the first trip we took since I’ve known how to talk, and I was expected to be more responsible than ever. Okay, fine, if you want me to be a smart traveler, I’m going to have (to have had) a great guidebook and I got one.
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