San Francisco’s Painted Ladies

Relics of the city’s late 19th century prosperity, Victorian homes are now San Francisco icons.
Relics of the city’s late 19th century prosperity, Victorian homes are now San Francisco icons.
We scrambled up some of hilly San Francisco’s most interesting and artistic sets of steps.
We have arrived in San Francisco for a one-month visit.
We visited three of the Washington Cascade volcanoes: Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, and Mount St. Helens.
During our one-month tour of western Washington, we paused for a week in the “Emerald City” of Seattle.
After storming the Olympics, we found a safe harbor with Eric, Jaco, and Juan de Fuca.
We encountered a nirvana of natural wonders on the Olympic Peninsula of Western Washington.
For the next two months, we will be driving through Western Washington and then on to San Francisco, California.
For all its charm and excellence, the American Riviera has taken an environmental pounding from the prized and prolific reserves of crude oil lying in wait beneath its bright and vibrant surface.
Out of the rubble of the 1925 earthquake, Santa Barbara became a showcase for design and construction in the Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style.