Today you can find Pan American World Airways on TV, but, except for an exhibit like the one at San Francisco International, not at any airport anywhere in the world. But as this hour-long BBC documentary “Come Fly with Me” shows, for over sixty years, from October of 1927 until December of 1991, Pan Am [...]
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Tales Told From The Road concludes 2011 with a photographic reprise of the jaunts over hill and dale Dick Jordan took near his California home as a member of the hiking group Meandering in Marin on Tuesdays during all four seasons of 2009. Drink a toast to the New Year as you watch this video. [...]
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With less than three weeks left to shop ‘til you drop for holiday gifts, the San Francisco Chronicle has come up with some nifty gift ideas for the travelers on your shopping list. Travel Editor Spud Hilton, contributing travel writers Jill K. Robinson, John Flinn, and Jennifer Blot, and Chronicle “Outdoors” writer Tom Stienstra, pass [...]
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PAN AM (via LAX Magazine)
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Spotting a flock of wild turkeys in the rural areas surrounding San Francisco Bay is so common that I am almost certain to see them in a field just ten minutes’ drive to the west of my home. But I never expected to find one at the condominium complex in El Cerrito where I had [...]
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If you are cooling your heels at an airport waiting for your flight to the city where Grandma lives, or just stepped off a crowded airliner and are headed to her house, here’s what Thanksgiving air travel might look like in the future:
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Barbie Dolls. Lots of Barbie Dolls. And Ken was there, too. But not in California. It’s only fitting that this week’s Travel Photo Thursday should be of American’s Favorite Southern California Beach-Life Couple, Barbie and Ken (I always thought them Very L.A.), since last week’s Travel Photo Thursday shot was of a surfer-dude, and since [...]
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Surfing (the kind you do on the water, not on the World Wide Web) spilled all over the “Sporting Green” section of the San Francisco Chronicle during the last few days. But you would be all wet if you thought that the photo a left was taken at the Rip Curl Pro Search contest off [...]
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If you are a wage-slave, you probably feel like a hamster spinning endlessly in a wheel, going nowhere fast. But that doesn’t mean you can’t break out of your caged-in daily routine and travel the world, pursuing your dreams, as this short animated film shows. Just make sure to watch the film to the very [...]
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The “snail mail” which the U.S. Postal Service delivers to me consists mainly of advertisements and catalogs that quickly find their way into the paper recycling bin that the garbage company collects each week. But unlike the envelopes stuffed with most of that not-so-informative information, the ones related to travel usually get opened and the [...]
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