After eight months without natures moisture(rain), Foster City finally got some desperately needed rain. Not much, but enough to let the people still know what rain looks like.
When I pulled into a gas station near Foster City and walked up to the cashier's window to pay for the gas, before I pumped it, there was a sign in the cashier's ...
"Here he comes!" "Awe..., he missed it." "Here comes another one!" "Wow, look at him go!"
Just listen to these people talking, makes you feel like your at a very exciting event: such as, skiing, soccer, football, or ice-hockey. But, actually, your at Half Moon Bay, CA, which is about twenty-plus miles from Foster City, CA, east, sitting on a sand ...
When I was a summer sheriff deputy, looking for a lost hiker in the Stanislaus National Forest, I heard the click of someone putting a shell into a chamber of a weapon. I stopped short, looked at my partner, he pointed to the left--standing with a shotgun pointed at us was an old looking man: long hair brushed back into a ponytail; eyebrows, bushy as ...
If you are in San Francisco, heading on Mission Street, to the freeway, to go to Foster City, don't and I repeat don't pick up any young looking girl thumbing a ride on Halloween night.
In the early sixties, when the hippie movement in San Francisco was very popular, a young girl dressed in a long flowery gown that reached down ...
While having breakfast with friends, several years ago, in Foster City, I was asked, "Are you going to join the new Jewish Center, when it opens up on Foster City Boulevard in Foster City, California?"
The members of the Jewish Center in Belmont, California, wanted to move into a larger facility. After a long search, they decided, with approval and several ...
Foster City, California, has one the best libraries in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is located on Hillsdale Blvd., which is the main thoroughfare through Foster City. Since I had some free time, I went browsing for interesting reading about Northern California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
I came across this bit of information that I thought was interesting about the Sierra Nevada ...
The Bay Area has many fascinating places to visit--if you know where to find them. My wife and I found one place that we didn't know existed.
Because we were staying home, Foster City, CA, on weekends, we didn't have any place to go or anything to do except to travel to San Francisco and see the same sites that ...
We came upon a fact that is hard to believe when you live close to a big city, especially, San Francisco, California. Also, many times, we feel that we do not have the problems that ranchers have, such as, bothersome wild animals.
But when we started to talk to several people, who only live about five or less miles from Foster City, California, that have homes close to Highway 280, ...
One morning, while waiting for Foster City's Audubon Elementary School's kindergarden class to open, for my granddaughter, I saw in a local newspaper, Foster City Islander, the title "Big Oak Flat Road Into Yosemite." I read the small advertisement and started to remember the trips I took on the road as a teenager.
I never knew the history of the road, ...
My wife and I, several years ago, decided to take our daughter(5-years old) to Yosemite: we always would go Highway 120, it's a more scenic route. We left Foster City about 5 a.m. and arrived in the park around 10 a.m., we made several stops on the way.
We heard about bald eagles, but have never seen one in ...
