Pontchartrain Pete

I went on a trip to Houston this weekend for my nephew’s (he’s also my Gawd-child) 11th birthday party. Houston is not my favorite place. Other than my brother’s family, a few friends and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the city just sucks to me. It’s just too big. They’ve been working on the [...]

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I wasn’t going to write anymore about our trip to San Francisco. I still need to cover the trip to Alcatraz, though, and working on the StreetcarArt.com project got me thinking about something I had seen while in the city by the bay, as it’s called.

You see, there was also a public art project in [...]

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On Saturday the gang climbed aboard a tour bus that took us from downtown San Francisco to the wine country in and around Sonoma. First stop was Gloria Ferrer, a sparkling wine producer in the Carneros region.
This one sums it all up…10:20 a.m. bubbly.

The winery from the road:

Ready, set, taste!

There were these tiny women [...]

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Monday was our last day in San Francisco. I posted about getting into town Friday and Sunday’s lunch. Monday morning I set out on my own and took the cable car the couple of blocks down Nob Hill to Chinatown.
Perambulating through San Francisco can be a bit of a challenge for swamp-dwelling yahoos such as [...]

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One of the restaurants Nola recommended in San Francisco was a dim sum place called Yank Sing. I found from the guidebook she lent me that there are a few locations around town, none of which are in Chinatown. There was one that looked to be close to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [...]

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First off, a big thanks to everyone who’s helped out in making this trip a great one. Hat’s off to Nola and Katie for pre-trip tips, and Yat Pundit for airport expertise shared via the Twitter in real-time.

Our office has taken a trip to San Francisco as a reward for meeting its sales goals last [...]

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