Twenty years ago, Red Bull hosted their first flugtag (German for airshow) competition in Vienna, Austria. It has since grown into a large event held several times a year in different cities around the world, drawing enormous crowds. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Red Bull Flugtag in the United States, where it started […]
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My previous experience at the 2010 Giants World Series Championship Parade was incredible and unforgettable. Sadly, my 2012 Giants World Series Championship Parade experience was terrible and entirely forgettable. I hopped on the baby bullet Caltrain knowing full well it would be packed for the parade, but I naively thought that it wouldn’t be so
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Last weekend I joined an estimated million other people in San Francisco taking part in the Fleet Week festivities. Knowing little about the event, I learned it celebrates the end of a 14-month journey around the world of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet” in 1909. This “showcase of American sea power” just drips of Roosevelt
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Following the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and the subsequent depression that gripped the city of San Francisco, city officials decided to raise spirits by hosting a race across the city. First held in 1912, Bay to Breakers has become the largest and longest unchanged race in the world. Sunday May 15th, was the 100th
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Last weekend, Chrystie and I went to the Moscone Center in San Francisco to attend our second WonderCon. I somewhat expected a big hoopla for the 25th anniversary, but aside from a panel with some of the founding fathers, there wasn’t much celebration of their silver anniversary. Even the program was kinda sad, perhaps by
On Tuesday I took the day off work to stand in the presence of the Giants World Series trophy, less commonly known as the Commissioner’s Trophy. As you may recall, The San Francisco Giants Are World Champs! Starting January 4th, the Giants organization began taking the trophy on tour all over Northern California (and some
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On Wednesday morning I awoke early to catch the train for San Francisco to partake in what knew would be an epic parade that I would one day tell my grandkids about. Two days earlier the Giants had won their first World Series since moving to San Francisco in 1958, and mayor Gavin Newsome promised
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A month ago, the 49ers ran a promotion in the San Jose Mercury News that gave out free tickets to select training camp sessions. Not being a subscriber to the Mercury, I didn’t think I’d be able to go, but Chrystie’s coworker found a website to sign up for tickets, so Chrystie and I signed
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On Memorial Day weekend the Mission District in San Francisco hosted its annual Carnaval festival and parade – a two-day celebration of the rebirth of life in Spring as celebrated by many different Latin American cultures. Chrystie and I got up early on Sunday to get to the city and catch the parade. The three-hour
(Continued from WonderCon 2010 (part 1)) Chrystie and I then made our way to get in line for a panel of forensic psychiatrists discussing the mental disorders that plague the inmates of Arkham Asylum. Unfortunately the amount of people in line to get into the room was enough to fill the room at least three
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