Everything you wanted to know about San Francisco’s finest flatiron

Mr. Phelan’s building

The other Golden Gate bridges

The alternative designs and proposed (but never executed) updates to the…

The Palace

A tour of the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California

A bridge too far

That one time I ran every bridge in Manhattan, and what I learned doing it

The Granite Lady

A tour of San Francisco’s Old Mint

The yard

Visiting one of San Francisco’s public transit bus yards

Written in July 2012.

My friend showed me around the Muni Kirkland bus yard. Muni is the municipal public transit system serving the city and county of San Francisco…

Seesaws for giants: Chasing Chicago’s movable bridges

Not in service

Visiting a bus graveyard in California

Getting to know San Francisco

Events to attend, books to read, places to visit…

En Route 66

The mother of all mother road trips September–October 2008