10 Best Literary Sites in San Francisco
With such rich literary history, there are dozens of literary sites in San Francisco to visit on your next trip. This list was hard to create, as I am leaving out some incredible places (and people) that have touched the literary world of the City by the Bay. But if I had to narrow it […]
Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center’s Library: The Perfect Place for a Break in the Park
This post contains affiliate links The Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center might not be on the top of your Yosemite National Park bucket list but after you’ve walked and hiked and marveled at all of the incredible natural sights the Yosemite Valley has to offer you may feel like you need a place of quiet respite. […]
The Best Jack London Literary Sites of the West Coast
This post contains affiliate links From the Bay Area to Sonoma County to small traces left behind in Oregon and Washington, the Jack London literary trail of the west coast is expansive. The author and adventurer spent his early years in Oakland and eventually moved to the “Beauty Ranch” in Glen Ellen, CA where he […]
A Self-Guided Tour of the Los Angeles Central Public Library
This post contains affiliate links I’m not really ever one to pass up an opportunity for a free docent-led tour of a historic building and the Los Angeles Central Library (officially the Richard J. Riordan Library) is certainly no exception. I recently took my second tour of the building and it was just as awe-inspiring […]
Everything You Need to See at Jack London State Historic Park
This post contains affiliate links We drove out to Glen Ellen on a spring day. The kind where you can feel how hard the sun is attempting to cast a blanket of warmth and it very nearly does but step into one shadow and you’re chilled. Glen Ellen sits about eight miles north of Sonoma […]
The Complete Mark Twain West Coast Literary Trail
This post contains affiliate links When we think of the great writers of the West, we often land on Jack London and John Steinbeck but Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain while he was west of the Mississippi. Mark Twain’s time in the West was brief but incredibly formative for the fortune-hungry reporter turned literature writer […]
