(Combine this tour with Mobile Tour Ten for a full day excursion.  If you are, indeed, biking this tour, be sure to note closing times for your bike rental). No matter when you start this tour (joining it with the morning tour or picking just this one alone), be prepared for a full experience.  Alameda [...]

Although red implies wild and getting all fired up, this tour will offer plenty for those who want nothing more than to feel a diversity of elements in a spirit of relaxation, as blue often inspires us to do. Blue is the warmth of the day, the welcoming water on the lake and the color [...]

You have to go through a tunnel or cross a bridge to get to Alameda, the other side. It’s an apt and metaphorical description of the place, because it really is an island and like going to the other side. Not as bustling as your typical Bay Area city, yet incredibly varied and even a [...]

It’s amazing to think I must have studied and played the travel board game, Monopoly more cumulative days in my youth than I visited foreign cities as an adult. Something to really think about, that parcelling out of time, what happens when we’re young in spirit and have found something to consume ourselves with. Ah, [...]

It used to be we had to think long and hard about our next shot, since film was costly, and there was always a limit to a roll of film. So, selective perception back in the day had to be a discipline as well as an art. Compare that to now, where taking a picture [...]

To celebrate poetry’s vibrant and varied presence, the City of Berkeley called on former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass and award winning artist David Lance Goines to design a series of poetry panels that have been installed in the sidewalks along Addison Street, in the heart of Berkeley’s downtown arts and theater district. In this [...]

Labyrinths have a curious past. Not only were they made available for contemplation (and not originally in a religious context either) but they carried forward the sacred principles of the time, using design as the container for those principles. They spread to civilizations across the world, so if you were traveling, you’d be as likely [...]

When I think of an up and coming East Bay neighborhood for making art, I think of professional education, not necessarily just diving in.  But sometimes the chance to sit down and just start making something is really the best choice — because you already know what art interests you and the mere act of [...]