Hiking Mount Tamalpais in Spring

The trails of Mount Tamalpais are lined with wildflowers in spring making it a delight to hike there after the winter rains. A photo tour >>

Hike along-the-Bay to Faro Point

A Bay Area hike recommendation: Faro Point in San Leandro — If you’d like to go on an easy, along-the-San Francisco Bay, flat, 1-mile trail. Quick Look >>

Saratoga Village in all its fall colors

When it’s ‘fall’ and you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, you see some yellow on a tree here and red on another, there. If you are looking for more…

Catching the light: The Road to Ardenwood Farm

The road to Ardenwood Historical Farm in Fremont, California. Read about:  Ardenwood Farm — A historic farm thriving in Silicon Valley For pictures from the road, Like/Follow Tipsy From The Trip on Facebook.  Come,…

Ardenwood – A historical farm thriving in Silicon Valley

If the dictionary meaning of ‘museum’ is ‘a place where things of historical, scientific or cultural importance are stored and exhibited,’ I would say — Ardenwood Farm in Fremont, California…

San Jose’s ‘Christmas in the Park’

Christmas isn’t Christmas without gifts, Santa Claus and Yuletide carols. And Christmas in San Jose, California is incomplete without its age-old downtown festivities. Like a lot of other cities San…