There are many ways to see California. It is a state with remarkable diversity. Colorful deserts, dramatic mountain ranges, rugged ocean coastlines, and towering redwood forests are all within a day’s drive. When you want to travel the length of…
We are not inclined towards ghost tours. Being a history buff, I get a little salty when tour guides start playing fast and loose with well documented points of local history to fix someone's odd experience into the larger tapestry of local events. Yet, when we saw that a magician and mentalist whose work we have followed would be in town doing a ghost tour, we decided to give it a go.
Sutro is a name that permeates San Francisco. Roads and civic works were named in commemoration of this mining engineer turned Mayor. But of all of these commemorative locations, there is a set that was our favorite place to take visitors when we lived in San Francisco and continues to be one of my go-to stops whenever I'm in town: Sutro Heights And Sutro Baths.
After wandering through the wilderness, we return to the city where we first launched this journey. This time, we are only visitors to San Francisco but that didn't mean we lacked plenty of old haunts and new destinations.