Lynda Takara

The San Francisco Nike Women’s Marathon

The main reason for taking this trip had arrived: Running the San Francisco Nike Women’s (half) Marathon, now in its seventh year. It’s the world’s largest all-women’s marathon and half marathon, with 22,000 participants — of which about 1,000 are…

San Francisco: one of my fave ways to chill

We started the day attempting to have breakfast at Dottie’s True Blue Cafe on Jones St. Many of my Twitter friends recommended it, but they did warn me that there would be a line, especially on weekends. They weren’t kidding!…

San Francisco Day 2: Off The Grid

My classmate Deb Aoki and twitter friends Kendall and Alyce Lee had told me about Off The Grid, which bills itself as a “mobile food extravaganza.” Even with that description, Lynda and I both thought it was one fabulous food…

San Francisco: Day 2, part 1

This is just a quick post to show you what we did in the first half of Day 2 in San Francisco. Our experience at Off The Grid was so amazing, it deserves its own post!We got a late start…

San Francisco: Day 1

After a week of doing double duty on Nonstop Honolulu, I joined the ranks of vacationing Catherine Toth, John Garcia, and Tracy Chan and left for San Francisco. As you might guess, doing all that plus trying to get ready…

High tea and a merry un-birthday

I got a message from Mari Taketa that she had a friend blowing through town for a very short time but wanted to make time to have coffee with us to talk about South Africa, since she’d be traveling there…