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  5 hours ago

  The flying double decker: Would you give it a try?

  SFGate - Silas Valentino

  Being taller is a downside during commercial flights, but a new design in aircraft seating attempts to amend this physical inconvenience by tapping into the unused space that hovers in the cabin’s overhead. The Chaise Longue Economy Seat is generating buzz at industry expos for its unusual …

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  I hiked an obscure Calif. park. Tiny banana slugs were everywhere.

  SFGate - Ashley Harrell

  When hiking through Russ Park, a 105-acre nature preserve about 250 miles north of San Francisco in the historic town of Ferndale, people tend to look up. The scenic trails bring visitors through a closed canopy forest featuring mature Sitka spruce and glorious stands of grand fir. This is the …

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  Why 'happiest place in America' may get $52 million police station

  SFGate - Andrew Pridgen

  Ever since Oprah dispatched anti-vaccine icon Jenny McCarthy to San Luis Obispo in 2011 and crowned it as the "America's happiest town," the city has done everything in its power to continue to put a live, laugh, love shine on its sun-drenched coastal hillsides and approachable downtown. Low crime, …

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  1 day ago

  Rumor has it there’s gold buried below this bar on the road to Yosemite

  SFGate - Gabe Lehman

  Directly off the side of the road along Route 120, about 30 minutes before the Yosemite park entrance, sits the Iron Door Saloon, a watering hole that claims to be the oldest continuously operated bar in California. But that distinction, like many other facts of the bar’s personality, is more …

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  3 days ago

  Does this Calif. restaurant have the best pancakes in the state?

  SFGate - Andrew Pridgen

  Pancakes are not a food as much as they are an experience or a memory. Easy to make (anyone can do it, right?), difficult to make well (mine always turn out goopy in the middle) and almost impossible to separate what’s actually on the plate from one’s own pancake nostalgia. But I’m more than willing …

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  3 days ago

  Disneyland has never been more expensive. Here's how to cut costs.

  SFGate - Katie Dowd

  Planning a trip to Disneyland has never been more expensive. Ticket prices are way up and inflation and eye-watering gas prices have made every aspect of a vacation pricier. Taking a family of four to Disneyland will never be “cheap,” but there are little ways to trim your budget to make it …