Having spent many a cold summer in San Francisco, fall was always the most welcome season – there were the Blue Angels during Fleet Week to introduce that it was indeed fall, as there was hardly any trees changing leaf color and it would warm all of a sudden because Indian Summer always comes to the Bay Area in October.<\/p>\n
Driving around the Embarcadero yesterday you’d never know this country was, had been, is in a recession because there are people everywhere doing stuff – running, biking, dining, walking, drinking, going here to there with quite a hustle bustle going on. People in the midst of the commerce of life with drive and determination.<\/p>\n
I know why New Orleans is my home – because it is peaceful and slow-paced and it is humid. I grew up in the tropics – in New Orleans and Managua and San Salvador and Panama and Puerto Rico. It is that pace, that soul that sings to me.<\/p>\n
But even with dry lips and my face already pruned from the desert dryness here – I have to admit after all the California bashing I have done over the past twenty years, San Francisco and up to Napa and into the Alexander Valley is a quite remarkably stunning place with ample beautiful people, cars, houses, restaurants and bars, and vistas galore.<\/p>\n
If you are headed to Northern California, make October your time frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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