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...result of living away from home. The biggest shock of living on the East Coast actually had nothing to do with the East Coast, it was the questions that I had to field about California. “What are the beaches like? What do you do in San Francisco? How many surfers do you know...
...Highway 1, making it the ideal drive along the ocean. The coast is shaped to create alcoves that make fantastic areas to look for interesting wildlife. Best of all, it is not nearly as crowded as most beaches. The tradeoff, though, is the weather: located so close to San Francisco, Half Moon Bay adopts the city’s sharp winds and low temperatures (at least by Californian standards). Santa Cruz may be a better choice for some, where the warm beaches and moderate water temperature are offset by huge crowds...
...beach is only a small part of the state that has everything—within a few hours drive, it is possible to reach the beach, state and national parks, snow (in the right weather), and a lively city. San Francisco has an amazing array of culture and sights that rivals the best cities in the world. Although everyone is told that the cable cars are simply an over-hyped tourist attraction, I loved standing on the edge and enjoying the wind as the cable cars whisk over the city’s characteristic steep hills. Fisherman?...
...weather would soon seem irrelevant. At 8:53 a.m., when the ship was crossing over San Francisco, a data point flickered on monitors at Mission Control indicating that the flow of information recording the temperature of the hydraulic systems in Columbia's left wing had suddenly ceased. At 8:56, when the ship was somewhere over Utah, the temperature in the landing gear and brake lining--again on the left side--registered high. Two minutes later, three temperature sensors embedded in the skin on the left flank of the ship quit transmitting. A minute later, temperature sensors in the left...
...Tusitala has also undergone a workout. But you'd expect nothing less from the story of how one of the world's tallest tale-tellers came to an island of natural yarn-spinners (fagogo is the Samoan word for their rich and digressive oral tradition). Setting out from San Francisco in 1888 with wife Fanny, 11 years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls of Samoa. Regular...