Day Trips
There are so many places to go when you have the day to explore the Bay Area with a family. Here are a few hundred terrific ideas with places to play and eat while you’re away on your adventurous day trips with kids.
A visit to the Palo Alto American Girl Store
There is a new American Girl store in Palo Alto! Â Is it worth the drive for (510) folks? Â The previously used exclamation mark is your ...
3 super day trips with a one-year old
We are happy to introduce you to Jennifer Saranow Schultz (AKA Hintmama), the San Francisco parent to Hannah. As of the time of this interview, ...
A great time for camping at Half Moon Bay
This guest post was submitted by Peggy, who has lived all over the Bay Area but now calls El Cerrito home. Since having her son, ...
5 Family-friendly road trips from Oakland
Looking for a fun day trip or mini vacation for your long weekend? These fellow Bay Area bloggers have a few inspiring ideas and photographs ...
Healdsburg: Wine-tasting with kids
My husband and I took an anniversary trip to Healdsburg for wine-tasting with our two daughters, and Heather asked me to share some highlights. My ...
Day trip: Hearts Desire beach in Marin County
Hearts Desire is a kid-friendly beach for those who enjoy a long and beautiful drive through West Marin county. (Nope, no apostrophe in the name ...
Kid-friendly Sonoma and Napa
I was standing in line at Sonoma’s Train Town when another mom started chatting me up. (She was observing a certain quirk of my 5-year ...
Wine country with kids: Calistoga public swimming pool
Our contributor today is Berkeley mom Nila Rosen who tipped us off to the idea of researching in advance of a road trip to locate ...
Reader tip: Marinwood Pool in San Rafael
A good half-hour North of Berkeley, San Rafael offers weather that makes stripping down and jumping in the pool more tolerable. Reader Cori Kesler of ...
My East Bay summer bucket list (Heather)
After reading Whitney’s East Bay summer bucket list, I wanted to create one of my own. Here are ten things I’d like to do with ...
