This morning my daughter and I embarked on a road trip from our Inland Valley home to San Francisco. While I do some touristy stuff around town, E is going to check out the English departments at Stanford and Berkeley.

After seven hours on the road we checked into the Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center. This hotel has special memories for me. Way back in the days when gasoline was about 35-cents a gallon, my ROP class in travel careers took a field trip to San Francisco. We flew from ONT to SFO on complimentary flights given by PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines--now defunct). The first thing we did when we arrived in the city was have breakfast at the Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center.

We walked into the hotel's atrium lobby and my eyes swept high and low, across and through the grandeur of the place. I had only seen such places on TV. In fact, the crisp table linens, crystal and real silverware made me feel as if I'd crawled inside one of my mom's soap operas.

E and I are staying for a couple of days here. Our room is on the 14th floor, overlooking Pier 1 and the great blue San Francisco Bay. Pinch me.

In the weeks ahead I'll be writing more about San Francisco, Napa Valley and Sacramento in the Press-Enterprise. Watch for it.

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