Today I had an off-day. That’s fine, you don’t always feel fantastic in a fantastic city. My off-day coincided with the event of the century: the Giants played the final game for the World Series. And they won. While I was being apathetic, sitting inside, doing...

I've never slept as well as on the night San Francisco experienced an earthquake - I woke up, ready for some oats and a great day, only to run into my roommate who asked me, clearly excited, what I had felt of the earthquake. 'Nothing!'...

Everything I see here gets the label ‘American’ or ‘different from home’. Cheese-baconsauce to put on your hamburger: so American! A small coffee into which I can easily fit my arm: typical. Hearing ‘I was like, yeah’ constantly: just like on television. And all the...