Northern California towns are charming to a fault every season. The State roads that take you there offer amazing views along the way, and most importantly, they are safe and well-maintained. During winter, however, it is best to carry on tire chains. There was a coffee shop almost in the middle of nowhere, on the … More A Coffee Shop By The Highway
This is just a snapshot of downtown San Francisco a couple days prior to the reopening of businesses and other places on June 15, 2021, after the more-than-a-year mandatory closing due to COVID19 in 2020. Perhaps there is nothing espectacular about these photos, other than streets, façades and life as it was recently while walking … More 15 Streets of San Francisco Before Reopening
(Travel) It takes about 4 hours by train if you leave from the Emeryville or Oakland stations. In that time you can read, browse online, write, respond to emails or think while sitting comfortably. It is amazingly a short trip and one ideal way to travel fromt the San Francisco Bay Area to the San … More To Fresno By Train.
San Francisco is one amazing city… and one of horror, for those of us who have to use street parking, vulnerable to parking tickets, booting, and towing. Is this a darker side of San Francisco, one that very few dare to speak about?
Text and photos by Lupita Peimbert. … More The City of Parking Horror.
At the Metro Station.
Photos and text by Lupita Peimbert It was a cold night, early January in Paris, France. As usual, Metro Chátelet was full of people coming and going. As usual, in the underground alleys that take you to the platforms for boarding the trains, a group of musicians delighted the audience with classical music. The violin, … More At the Metro Station
Uninspired and Punched – La Mía Culpa? by Lupita Peimbert I felt punches in my stomach while leaving the traffic courtroom this morning; immediately drove to Starbucks hopping a Soy Latte and a hot Panini will diminish the anguish I felt, and my stomach absorbed. Whether you believe in metaphysics or not, the Judge directed … More Uninspired and punched at Traffic Court
One day, Dick Davis, pictured left, took a bus in Tijuana to travel across Mexico on a route traced by him out of curiosity. He wanted to see the heart of the country, the places, costumes and faces of people whose day-to-day stories few know about. Sometimes even Mexicans don’t fully understand them. Dozens of … More Bus Journey Across Mexico
Oakland Mayor-elect Jean Quan got her car booted after $1,000 in unpaid parking citations. Sounds like a lot of money and parking citations but it is not. Most fines are $50 and over and if you do not pay within a very few days, the fee easily goes to $85 and more. Oakland parking extortion … More The issue is parking extortion
The way parking tickets are imposed on drivers is wrong. As some local rebels have said, – it is extortion. The big lie is that some of us who get parking tickets are irresponsible, careless bastards. The ugly truth is that we get parking tickets not because we are scofflaws, but because the municipalities have … More Parking Ticket Outrage
