Art and his wife Lila get the fan of the week award for attending two separate concerts in two distant cities. (That’s a big deal out in the wild, wild west, where towns aren’t exactly …
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The Cable Car Experience

The San Francisco cable cars are a little bit of history and a little bit of fun all wrapped up into the San Francisco Cable Car Experience. But…first things first. Don’t do this stuff. We …
Continue readingHug me. I dare you.

If you ever see Elisabeth, a.k.a. Bean, hug her. She loves that. See!
Continue readingEating our Way Through San Francisco

For us, a huge part of the San Francisco experience (or any experience, for that matter) is the food. The main reason we went to San Francisco was for Boudin sourdough bread (okay, and to …
Continue readingCousin Ashley

We didn’t leave our whole hearts in San Francisco, but the part of our hearts that we did leave behind is firmly and forever attached to this darling girl, Ashley. She’s our niece… She’s our …
Continue readingI Left my Heart in San Francisco…Well, Not Really

We spent the day in San Francisco. San Francisco is a city like no other. No other! You could see it better if someone would take all those silly cables off the Bay Bridge. I …
Continue readingCheeseball Machine Inventors

Meet the Kant girls–Amanda and Caleigh! These two remarkable girls invented and built a cheeseball machine. Insert five cents and it dispenses five cheeseballs. Genius! There’s only one thing about the whole cheeseball machine experience …
Continue readingHomeschoolers of Good Shepherd

Take a look at all these unsocialized homeschool kids! What’s that they’re doing? Socializing?! Well, who knew! And here are those same unsocialized homeschool kids respectfully listening to Stephen Bautista’s lesson about guitars and his …
Continue readingArmstrong State Park

Christy has wanted to see the giant redwoods since she was a (cute) little schoolgirl singing: “From the redwood forest to the gulfstream waters, This land was made for you and me!” Finally, she made …
Continue readingCorks Come from Cork Trees. Duh!

As “roadschoolers,” we are always on the lookout for educational opportunities, so we jumped at the free tour of the Korbel winery (or is it a champagnery?). I’m not going to tell you what we …
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