Peace, Love, and Tie Die. That is, in part, the essance of the Whole Earth Festival. Every year on Mother’s Day weekend the UC Davis quad area fills with artists and vendors of incredible calibre, vegetarian food of every kind, and music everywhere! This is an experience not to be missed. Unless you arrive early, prepare to walk from any of the designated parking lots or street parking. Stop first at...

To me Fairfield is a city that is half way to everywhere. Though it can’t compete with the culture of the bay area, or the wineries of napa valley, or political ties coming from the Sacramento valley, Fairfield is the mid-way point for all of these points of interest. If you wanted a home-town feel for a home-base to explore all over northern California, Fairfield is your place. Share / Save / Send

To borrow a phrase from the Berkeley Visitor’s Bureau, Berkeley is “consummately Californian in its setting – but international in its cultural landscape”. Berkeley is densely populated, so it seems that anywhere downtown you could explore an eastern Indian clothing store, pop into an Ethiopian restaurant, stop in a yoga studio for a tai chi class, or find something new you’ve...

I have always been both fascinated and intimidated by San Francisco.  Here is a place where cultures converge, where the history is fascinating, where neighborhoods are given their own name and status.  It is also a place where I have gotten lost countless times, have sat in traffic for what seemed like days, and where I swore I would never return without my own personal navigator. I have often wondered how...

Although each of these museums can merit a full day on their own, I am putting together two of San Francisco’s finest hands-on museums in a full-day trip category for two reasons: 1) they are within ten miles of each other, so you don’t have to drive clear across the city to go from one to the other, and 2) if you only have one or two days to spend in San Francisco, I would put both of these museums...