Here is a look back at our jam-packed month of April. We also visited Florida this month, but otherwise we were busy having adventures all around the Bay. First, Thai food for date night in the city. Vince, Alex, and I made the pilgrimage to Russian River Brewing Co. up in Healdsburg to wait in…
The Crosstown Trail is a wonderful volunteer-assembled walking/biking trail that extends from the southeast to the northwest corners of San Francisco. They recently just celebrated the 5-year anniversary of the trail and added a “Double Cross Trail” to complete the X from the southwest to northeast corners of the city. We had been talking about…
I started my Taiwanese American Cookbook Club this year as a way to celebrate and explore all of the Taiwanese American cookbooks that have come out in the last few years. A cookbook club is a potluck, where all attendees make and bring a dish from the featured cookbook. For our third cookbook club, we…
Our springtime baseball tour of Florida was perfectly timed, as we were very lucky with warm, sunny days and not much humidity. The visit was capped off with three nights in Miami Beach– my first time ever visiting Miami, beach or otherwise. We stayed right in South Beach at the Uma House, a very cute…
Alongside two MLB ballparks, we also managed to squeeze in two national parks in our very short amount of time in Florida. In fact, we did these two national parks and a ballpark all on the same day. So, we certainly didn’t have a lot of time to explore a ton of each park, but…
It’s time for our March recap! A month in which we had our second cookbook club; a camping trip in Pinnacles; and a surprise getaway to Stinson Beach. But it all began with a rainy day trek to the Oakland Museum of California’s White Elephant Sale. I picked up this set of four candlestick holders….
For Alex’s birthday, I booked us a surprise staycation, complete with a blindfolded car ride to see if he could still figure out where we were going. Well, spoiler alert: he is very good at this game and could indeed figure out where we were. However, being blindfolded on Hwy 1 is a prime method…
One of Alex’s many strengths in life is planning ahead and snagging much-sought-after reservations. Back in the fall, he already planned for this spring camping trip to Pinnacles National Park, reserving a campsite as soon as it became available. Pinnacles is only an hour from San Jose, and yet it’s pretty underappreciated as far as…
I have been delighted to see the growing number of Taiwanese cookbooks published in recent years. Although I was happy to support the authors by simply buying the cookbooks and having them decorate my kitchen shelf, I wanted to actually enjoy the cookbooks as not just books but as the dishes contained within! And so,…
February included a big cookbook club dinner for Lunar New Year; a whole trip to New Mexico; and of course plenty of adventures right here at home. I made lots of progress on my custom San Francisco-themed mahjong set, finishing up the painting phase. Cassie and I visited the White Elephant Sale benefiting the Oakland…
As a bit of an epilogue to our stay in New Mexico, we booked just one night at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort And Spa before flying out of Albuquerque the next day. It was a beautiful resort, and an incredible use of our Hyatt free night certificate. View our brief but beautiful stay below,…