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Parrots? In San Francisco?

Pet Travel Thursday

By Pamela Webster

NOTE: Pamela is our new Pet Travel expert.  You can learn more about her on our Contributor’s Page and next month, we’ll be interviewing Pamela so you can get better acquainted as she starts her new gig here at A Traveler’s Library. Welcome, Pam!!

Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
Telegraph Hill with Coit Tower in the Background, photo by Michael O’Brien

Destination: San Francisco, CA

Movie: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Directed by Judy Irving (Broadcast in 2005 on Public Television and now available on DVD). Continue reading Parrots? In San Francisco?

Travel Photo Thursday: A Room With a View

Two weeks ago we looked at a variety of windows from the outside.

Here are views from some views from the inside of various lodgings that we particularly enjoyed.

The Dashiell Hammett Room at Union Square Hotel, San Francisco
The Dashiell Hammett Room at Union Square Hotel, San Francisco

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Got to Get on the Road to California

Destination: California, USA

Book: Kiss the Sunset Pig (2006) by Laurie Gough

A GUEST POST by Claire Algarme

It is a smooth ride along California Interstate-5 while I gaze out at the beautiful landscape before me. I am on a thruway bus going to Bakersfield where I will ride the Amtrak. My friends think I am out of my mind by taking the train to San Francisco — all by myself — when it was only my first time in California, let alone in the United States.

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