Jan 2012 From Oakland to Vallejo and Napa Valley, breezing along the pacific coast highway to San Francisco, I took in one of my travel dreams courtesy of Facebook My Facebook friends invite me to San Francisco for the last week of my American trip. I spend the seven hour flight from Atlanta to Oakland thumbing through a contingency list of hotels in case we didn’t click: from Facebook page to real life doesn’t always work. By the time the plane spewed us out at Oakland I was feeling so jet lagged that if the Adams family had met me at Arrivals I wouldn’t have flinched. Shouldn’t have fretted though, we hit it off immediately and for the next week they proudly showed me around their bit of the Golden state. They live in Vallejo so
... read more