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A Tribute to a Friend
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 17 February 2010
Before we knew it, the second weekend of SF Beer Week was upon us and we returned to the City with a full schedule of events for the final three days. Friday afternoon, we headed to our first event: the Bill Brand Tribute at Drake’s Brewing in San Leandro. Bill was a Bay Area beer [...]
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I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Port Costa and the Past
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 17 February 2010
It wasn’t the squeaking of the bats that kept me up all night. It wasn’t the way my shoulders dug in to the thin mattress that kept me rolling over, not the low-voiced howl of the passing freight trains that rattled me out of my half-dreams. It was that I had to pee. And I was [...]
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Mad-Crazy Waves
Blog: Kate McVaugh's Rambles - 15 February 2010
It’s been over a year since I’ve been down to the Monterey Bay Peninsula. As always, I wondered what made me think that the two-hour drive to get here was too labor intensive.
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Cheese & Beer
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 12 February 2010
While Double IPA and Barleywine Festivals get all the press and crowds, it’s the smaller events that are the backbone of SF Beer Week. These events mostly happen during the week, away from the adulation of the big crowds. Last year, during the inaugural SF Beer Week, we sat on the sidelines for the midweek [...]
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Double IPAs, Sausages and Ice Cream
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 10 February 2010
I’d like to start with a confession; we had never been to the Bistro in Hayward. It opened the same month, January 1994, we left Oakland to move back home. In the subsequent 16 years, we spent quite a bit of time in the East Bay. But, we never thought of stopping in Hayward. Even [...]
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Getting Younger
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 9 February 2010
Opening day of SF Beer Week really came together for us. Well, at least for me. Merideth called me earlier in the week asking whether a work trip up to Santa Rosa on Friday would work. Being the loving and supportive husband, I said we could make it work. She could drop me off in [...]
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Flowers and Hair Dye: Getting Ready for the New Year in Oakland’s Chinatown
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 9 February 2010
Short women elbowed through stacks of neon flowers. Banners boasted the rejuvenating wonders of herbs, tea, hair dye: “No. 1 Selling Brand in U.S.A.”, “Prince of Peace, The Name You Can Trust!” Distorted pop vocals crackled and hummed from a far-off stereo. Children gazed up at their toy windmills, decorated with carton tigers or Dora [...]
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Best US ski slopes
Blog: Lonely Planet blog - 8 February 2010
With the Winter Olympics dominating British Columbia’s best skiing starting this weekend, we thought we’d look just south to the USA’s best ski slopes. (Apologies to the slopes of upstate New York or Vermont out east, but the best US skiing is a truly Western matter.) Jackson Hole, Wyoming Big, fast, deep — Jackson Hole is not [...]
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Our 2010 SF Beer Week
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 30 January 2010
The 2010 SF Beer Week begins this coming Friday, February 5th. The second edition of the Celebration of Bay Area beer culture promises to be bigger and better than the inaugural year. With over 200 events anticipated over a ten day period, there is plenty of beery fun. While we are not hosting our own event [...]
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Daily Travel Photo – Calico, California
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 29 January 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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Daily Travel Photo – San Diego, California
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 28 January 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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Elephant Seals, Artichoke Bread and a Lighthouse: Cheap Kicks on the California Coast
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 28 January 2010
The wind had something to say. Howling, moaning, rattling through the fog-swelled rafters, it talked to us all night. The next morning, it fingered our hair, pinkened our noses, and carried the cries of birth and battles, sea gulls and elephant seals… I think I’ll start the article something like that, depending on how highfalutin I [...]
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Squaw Valley, Tahoe: Five Family Favorites
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 27 January 2010
Squaw Valley, California. Squaw Valley's 4-000 acres is part of beautiful Lake Tahoe in California's Sierra mountains. Visitors flock to Squaw for the snow in winter and heaps of outdoor fun in the summer. It is almost wicked to mention just five but if you find yourselves there, please include the following in your itinerary.
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A Plush and Fuzzy Menace
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 24 January 2010
Jen brought me to San Jose proper. I'd commented one time or more too many on the overall sterility of the San Jose suburbs, and we both felt that the only way to really give the southern end of the Bay Area a fair hearing would be to head to its center and cop a feel.
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Southern California Megalopolis Brew Tour Part II
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 22 January 2010
We must be getting older because Saturday’s activities took a bit out of us. And I don’t think waking up in the Inland Empire helped. After overcoming the morning fogginess and grogginess, we were back on the road headed west. Luckily we had an easier day of beer travel on Sunday. There was no way we [...]
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Southern California Megalopolis Brew Tour Part I
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 20 January 2010
Saturday morning we were back on Hwy 101 heading southeast. This was our big day of the trip, with several breweries and a sandwich shop on our itinerary. After successfully negotiating the Saturday morning traffic around downtown LA, we got on I-10 east to San Gabriel. For years, I have seen adverts in the Celebrator for [...]
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A Lady to the Rescue
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 17 January 2010
Driving five hours for a beer; that is how our Southern California beer journey began. With our goal of reaching 600 breweries in 2010, we needed to get busy. The three-day MLK weekend was a perfect opportunity to make a dent in the needed 76 breweries. But where to go? My first thought was Southern California, [...]
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24hrs in LA: Day 1 Recap
Blog: Vagabond3 - 16 January 2010
Fish Tacos, Malibu, the PCH, Venice, Santa Monica, the Pacific Ocean, Downtown, Food from a truck. That was our first day in LA. Here’s a quick recap.
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The Readers Strike Back
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 15 January 2010
This week I'm featuring responses from Aerohaveno's followers to two recent competitions - one about travel disasters, the other about travel to movie locations.
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San Francisco: Biking The Golden Gate Bridge
Blog: Uncommontravel - 12 January 2010
I’d been over the Golden Gate Bridge a number
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Travel Tuesday: Tahoe
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 12 January 2010
Reasons to travel to Lake Tahoe.This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library
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A New Year’s Dream Come True in Pasadena, CA
Blog: Solo Traveler - 12 January 2010
The floats, the bands, the scent of flowers and the smiles of people... Dale shares her joy of attending the Rose Parade on New Year's Day in Pasadena, California. This is just a summary. To read the entire article, please click on the title above. If you enjoy this blog, please lend your support by forwarding this email to friends. Thanks, Janice
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First time … being strip searched {Day 1}
Blog: Emerald Dreams Photography - 10 January 2010
I left in the morning to take my father to this massage parlor, if we were in Japan I would say not those kind of parlors. I had to be dropped off at the Philadelphia airport for my flight to California. When I went through check in, I forgot my belt. Uh oh. So with [...]
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Trouble in Paradise
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 7 January 2010
No journey is perfect. Travellers go abroad knowing that, sometimes, flights will be delayed, baggage misplaced, hotel rooms disappointing and meals underwhelming.
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Grab Your Pillow and Dive In
Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 4 January 2010
It’s like walking into a fantasy world. Ocean-filled tanks bigger than a house, filled with sea creatures all the colors of the rainbow. So close, you feel as though you could reach out and pet a seahorse or splash a fast moving sea otter. A visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium has all the makings of the perfect day. Until you realize, a lot of other people had the same idea. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has been educating and entertaining visitors for more than a quarter of a century. Every year 1.8 million visitors flood through its doors.
