by kathpoole | May 17, 2018 | Lessons Learned, San Francisco
Did you know you can go from Oakland to Long Beach in an hour and a half? To go to Long Beach from San Francisco on Southwest Airlines you need to go through Pheonix then Oakland and it takes 7 hours and 15 minutes? What were they thinking?
by kathpoole | Jul 15, 2015 | Active, Good Food, Monterey
The Monterey shoreline is like the Grand Canyon, pictures don’t do it justice. You just have to go see it. The best vantage starts in Pacific Grove’s section of the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail that runs parallel to Ocean View Blvd. This trail stretches from Lighthouse...
by kathpoole | May 20, 2015 | Lessons Learned, Luggage Log
Who knows everything about packing? I don’t. Here are some great ideas so you don’t have to learn the hard way. <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/HXj6Sz4eBUU”...
by kathpoole | Mar 13, 2015 | Art Galleries, Lessons Learned, The Rest of the Story
The Dali Lama said, “When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” Last July I ask for stories from people whose credit cards had been compromised while on vacation. What I got back was…nothing. Networking worked and I got one interesting story that I’ll relate below. Each...
by kathpoole | Mar 4, 2015 | Good Food, San Francisco, Vacation Rental Travels
754 Columbus Avenue, 415 421-484; http://xoxtruffles.com/ ‘#1 Chocolate in the Country by Chocolatier Magazine’ The sign cast an imaginary, but very real, line, hooked me on the shoulder and reeled me across the street through the door of XOX Truffles. “I got my big...
