Category Archives: local

spheres of influence

Dinner in the City 0

A night on the town… Then Suzie’s birthday at The Ambasador. Posted via email from griphiam’s posterous

King’s Mountain to Skyline 0

More more doable than heading up Page Mill. Unfortunately the part down 92 has no bike lane, all downhill and quite a lot of traffic. However, the drip down Skyline was amazing. Wish I brought my camera. I will have to head up there via car soon with my camera and a tripod. Unfortunately, I [...]

coit tower 0

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } circle @ coit tower, originally uploaded by griphiam. Trying to take advantage of a spectacular day (Saturday) we decided to leave our confines (Palo Alto) and head north (San Francisco). While [...]

Cherry Blossom Festival 0

This weekend saw the annual explosion of white and pink around the Tidal Basin and National Mall — blooming of the Cherry Blossoms. We when down on Friday evening, which was a good plan because it avoided most of the tourists that flock to the city for this weekend. I would say it was mostly [...]