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  • 9 best things to do in San Diego

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    We snuck away for a few glorious days in San Diego, and slunk back to Seattle wondering why aren’t we living in a place we could be in the ocean every day. San Diego was unreal. There are the beaches, which look like movie sets with white sand and palm trees. Then there’s LegoLand, the…

  • Family-friendly San Francisco

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    One last photo dump from beautiful San Francisco, a city as maligned as Seattle. School starting means major travel withdrawal, so for now I just look at pictures — I take a lot of them! Here’s a link to my story for Seattle’s Child: family-friendly adventures in San Francisco.

  • Golden Gate Bridge

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    I hadn’t seen the Golden Gate Bridge since I was maybe 7? This trip I made up for lost time: we biked, bused AND walked across it. Here’s a link to my story for Seattle’s Child: family-friendly adventures in San Francisco.

  • New(ish) SF park with stunning Golden Gate Bridge views

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    Tunnel Tops is a new public park, opened in 2022, that reminded me a lot of our Olympic Sculpture Park. Both are extraordinarily beautiful spaces with unbelievable views that replaced an eyesore. Also, free! When the highway leading to the Golden Gate Bridge was damaged in an earthquake, San Francisco rebuilt the highway in a…

  • Modern Chinese cuisine at SF’s China Live

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    Verrrrrry suspicious ordering 滷肉飯 from a nice young man named Jorge but the food at China Live turned out to be authentically delicious. The chef is Taiwanese, the menu is pan-Asia Chinese, and care was put into every last design detail of the space. They’re trying to be the Eataly of Chinese food, which I…

  • Fun finds at SF’s Ferry Building

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    Shopping used to be one of my hobbies, but I’d get in this cycle of buying and purging, and who’s got time for that with kids?? I still love shopping, only now it’s (mostly) window shopping. Some things that caught my eye:

  • Salesforce Park: A public park in the sky

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    Let’s make a public park, but put it in the SKY. Salesforce Park sits on the roof of the transit center and runs 4 blocks long. There’s security 24/7 and the park is immaculate. The free gondola was sadly out of order, but the kids loved the bus fountain, which shoots up water when a…

  • SF’s iconic Palace Hotel: Turn-of-the-century elegance

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    Even if you’re one of those insufferable minimalists, you can’t help being wowed by the garden court at the Palace Hotel. Marble columns, Austrian chandeliers, 115-year-old glass dome… We ordered room service because it’s just easier with kids, but stopped by the garden court to have a good look. The hotel survived the 1906 earthquake…

  • Alcatraz and Angel Island

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    I sometimes fantasize about going to prison, where I’d have my own cell and no one to take care of. That is, until I went to an actual prison and it seems not super hygienic in there! I was surprised by the public access on the Alcatraz tour. We even tried out the solitary confinement…

  • California Academy of Sciences

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    The California Academy of Sciences took my breath away. You enter a rainforest sphere, and the path winds upwards. Along the way you see macaws, giant spiders, bats, nothing in cages. Butterflies dance at the rainforest canopy. Then you take a glass elevator down, down, down below the water, where there is an entire freaking…