January 30, 2014 Chapter 6 Pinnipeds Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Thursday was already the last day of Tracy’s conference, and I think I walked with her again to grab coffee on the way. While doing a little searching on Yelp! the previous night, I had discovered that one of the most highly …
January 29, 2014 Chapter 5 Let’s Eat Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents We’d already been in San Francisco for the better part of two days when Tracy’s conference actually started. It was being held at City College of San Francisco, which is on the border between Chinatown and the Financial District. The walk …
Chapter 4 Archaic Transportation Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents It felt later than it actually was by the time we were done with dinner. Apparently San Francisco generally closes up shop pretty early on weeknights, so all the streets were basically deserted. Walking back to Union Square, though, we found that the historic …
January 28, 2014 Chapter 3 Disney Radar Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Our first full day in San Francisco was also a full workday. I can’t pretend we got to the CoolTech co-working space right on time in the morning because we had to figure out public transportation over there, but we were …
Chapter 2 Oh, Like the Parrots? Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents If you’re ever going to be in San Francisco, I would certainly recommend Telegraph Hill based on its location alone. Bordered by North Beach (the city’s Little Italy) in one direction and Chinatown in the other, it makes fun exploring just …
January 27, 2014 Chapter 1 Travel Troubles Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Waking up and grabbing my phone, the first email I opened let us know that our flight had been canceled. Now, while this was the first time we’d ever faced this particular challenge, I can tell you that it’s pretty …
Prologue Next Post Table of Contents Since Tracy works at a company that’s still pretty small, they are committed to giving their employees as many opportunities for career development as possible. And though her responsibilities at CoolTech have shifted significantly over the last year or so, one of Tracy’s focuses at the beginning of 2014 was …
Chapter 36 Must Love Dogs Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents As we sat at the halfway point and our dogs rested, I took several closer pictures of some of the pups who were pulling us. They were all just so cute! You might remember that I said we had one other family on …
Chapter 35 Dashing Through the… Dirt Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Soon we were off and barreling up the mountain. These Unimogs do not mess around, and we were climbing at really steep grades. All around us, the forest floor was coated in some plant akin to moss that the guide told us …
Chapter 34 Snow Dogs Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents So what was our next exciting Port Adventure going to be? Well, when Tracy and I first started researching our Alaska cruise, we almost immediately found out about the opportunity to try out dogsledding. Now, Disney offers ridiculously expensive excursions that include taking a …