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San Francisco’s hot tourist attraction: driverless cars
Cable cars are still trundling up San Francisco's hills, but robotaxis from Waymo are shaping up as the city’s latest must-do for visitors.
5 presidential libraries that offer culture, history and ‘labs of democracy’
As repositories of valuable historical documents and other records, U.S. presidential libraries have long been important destinations for scholars. But you don’t have to be an academic or even a...
Quirky Santa Cruz holds its own
Anyone who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s will almost certainly have the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk commercials stamped on their subconscious, alongside their best...
Dogs welcome companions in many national parks
Ely MacInnes and her husband, Tom, began traveling in the western United States with their 85-pound mutt, Alaska, in March 2020. Driving and living in a recreational vehicle, they visited...
Setting sail on the winding waterways of California’s Delta
The wind was a perfect 20 knots, the warm breeze filling our sails, as we angled westward, riding the current down the Sacramento River. We sailed past Sherman Island, slowly...