San Jose is known as “silicon valley” due to all the high-tech silicon chip type businesses that this region attracts. This area is so densely populated, you can leave one city and enter another without knowing it or even turning off from your street.  Though you do have to be mindful of high traffic times of the day while traveling, the high population also lends itself to diverse exploration...

I wanted to take the kids to San Francisco for some fun and adventuring.  I really needed to find a place that would entertain them long enough to make the drive worthwhile, and something that could be done with one adult, preferably in one place.  I think I struck gold at Yerba Buena Gardens.  Here was a museum, a playground, a carousel, and other things (ice-skating rink and bowling alley) that we didn’t...

Yerba Buena Gardens is a great kid spot in the middle of downtown San Francisco. There is a playground equipment with killer slides, water features, and room to run around. There is Zeum, a museum aimed at school aged kids where you can create your own movie, play with video equipment, make your own clay-mation production or lay down a kareoke track. Also within walking distance (read: don’t need a stroller...