Archive for September, 2007

Lands End

Posted: 30th September 2007 by yeehan in California, Place of interests, Silicon Valley, Travel

“Lands End is a popular family trail, the wide and pleasant dirt path follows the cliffs above the bay of San Francisco. It occasionally heads inland through scrub and eucalyptus trees, just often enough to make the next open view of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco stunning all over again. If you’re making [...]

Popularity: 3% [?]

Sunset in Half Moon Bay

Posted: 22nd September 2007 by yeehan in California, Place of interests, Silicon Valley, Travel

Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, USA. It’s a small town with a nice long beach. Half Moon Bay hosts an annual “Art and Pumpkin Festival” on Main Street downtown. 250,000 people visit every October for the festival. There’ll be an upcoming Pumpkin festival on 13-14 Oct. Check out [...]

Popularity: 4% [?]

Escape from Alcatraz

Posted: 11th September 2007 by yeehan in California, Place of interests, Silicon Valley, Travel

Alcatraz Island (sometimes referred as The Rock) is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. It served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, then a military prison followed by a federal prison until 1963, when it became a national recreation area.
Today, the island is a historic [...]

Popularity: 3% [?]

Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley — possibly Yosemite’s most familiar sight. The granite crest rises more than 4,737 ft (1,444 m) above the valley floor and is about 2693 m above sea level.

As late as the 1870s, Half Dome was declared “perfectly [...]

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