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San Francisco, California

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San Francisco is a culturally saturated town that's perfect for a west coast getaway. It's well known for its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture and its famous landmarks, like the Golden Gate Bridge. With so many great hotels in such a large city, it could be hard to choose where you want to rest your head at night. Allow us to give you three affordable, ...

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Posted in:Points of Interest, Travel Tips, Culture Features:Hotels & Lodging, Inexpensive
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Nothing is more inconvenient than checking into a hotel and realizing the wi-fi comes at an extra, often unreasonable, cost. All we want to do is send out a couple of emails, or download a quick file, and now we have to shell out $13.00 to get online for a few minutes? Ridiculous.

Thankfully, 4sqwifi helps us solve this problem. For Foursquare users, 4sqwifi will help you find ...

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Posted in:Travel Tips Features:Technology
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...And you do dinners at French Laundry in Napa Valley — Drake from the song "The Ride."

Artists are always name dropping exotic locales or unusual places they've been to in their travels. Sometimes, the place is very well known — think the Jay-Z and Kanye West song "Ni**as In Paris" — but sometimes they will reference a place less known, more ...

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Posted in:Dining, Points of Interest Features:Day Trips, Wine, Celebrity Traveler, Lunch Spot, Fine Dining , French Cuisine, American Cuisine, Food
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Amoeba Music Store has three different locations. The largest outlet is located in Southern California - Los Angeles to be exact - and takes up an entire city block on Sunset Boulevard. Their first outlet is in Northern, California, in Berkeley, California on Telegraph Avenue.

But Amoeba Music's San Francisco location is the store we recommend to all music buffs who are thinking ...

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Posted in:Points of Interest Features:Live Music, Jazz & Blues
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Every now and then there's a movie we watch that is so visually captivating, we fantasize about what life is like to live in the place where the movie happens. It can be one scene or it can be throughout the entire film but, whatever it is, if we get enough b-roll footage of the background, we're tempted to book a ticket to learn about the place on our own.

Usually the movies with ...

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Posted in:Culture, Points of Interest Features:Casual, Arts, Celebrity Traveler