The 614orty-Niner

The Carquinez Bridge, gateway to Vallejo and Benicia in San Francisco's east bay It may be less evident to more and more people as t...

Baba's, where coffee is brewed with Thunderkiss Coffee beans and pairs up well with their excellent breakfast sandwiches For all the...

Well, the recap of a wonderful tour of California comes to an end with this blogpost. As usual, there were places that didn't quite conv...

Pigeon Point Lighthouse, one of two lighthouses that bracket the cozy town of Half Moon Bay (Photo courtesy of visithalfmoonbay.org /Jonat...

A bicycle-oriented mural in a neighborhood (Over-the-Rhine) that is full of creative and colorful murals Our final Cincinnati trip post ...

A bloom hangs on against the impending winter cold at Columbus's Park of Roses As noted in the last blogpost , we don't get to...

If one takes out a marker to a map, one will see it’s not too hard to divide up Columbus underrated local and Ohio-based coffee riches ...

One of the more delicious spheres in the Columbus metro: The Nibbler from the North Market's  Destination Donuts Who knew that a h...

This sign for Yost Pharmacy , which has served the residents of Mason since 1945, might be a future candidate for Cincinnati's America...

Once nationally known as "The Dry Capital of the World", the Columbus suburb of Westerville is attracting a new wave of culinary...

Part of the Poindexter Village staircase mural at the Columbus Metropolitan Library , as depicted by renowned local artist Animah Robinson...

When Mission Coffee opened up in October of 2012 in the Short North, they had joined a coffee scene whose quality and general public awar...

Columbus's vigorous coffee scene has headed west in recent months down Broad Street, one of the city's historically main thoroughf...

As is typical, our Bay Area travels covered a number of random delectable destinations around the region, and we'll be closing this e...

The Big Room at local favorite/independent radio station CD102.5 in the Brewery District, which provided a nice stopover point in my lates...

The Moravian Sugar Cake from Laughlin's Bakery , topped with cinnamon, one of my most favorite spices ever When it comes to sweet ...

Similar to Columbus and its North Market , Cedar Rapids, IA sports its own upscale public market in the form of the Newbo City Market No...

Minnesota has its share of towering structures to attract state visitors like the Jolly Green Giant, which we encountered back in 2013. ...

The SPAM Museum, located in Spamtown USA aka Austin, MN On our last jaunt through "The Land of 10,000 Lakes" aka Minnesota, we...

Revolutionary War patriot Thaddeus Kosciuszko sports ties to lands in and around Dublin, Ohio (image from The Kosciuszko Foundation ) ...