Pacifica, on the California coast, has a little brown church, an old train car, and restaurants where locals foxtrot and drink Manhattans. San Francisco is just 15 minutes away from the Bay Area’s...
Ruth Wertzberger Carlson
Ruth Wertzberger Carlson has been writing international luxury travel articles for two decades and still has not found a better place to live than San Francisco. A native of Iowa, she has nine siblings, and loves taking visitors to explore San Francisco.
Her articles have appeared in American Way, Bon Appetit, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and several anthologies.
Cable Cars, Kitties and Crabby Christmas: Holidays in San Francisco
This article originally ran on Wander With Wonder in 2017. All dates and information have been updated for Holiday Season 2018. San Franciscans are known for being different and the holidays are no...
A Very San Francisco Affair: Most Memorable Hotels
Don’t tell anyone but I have the seven-year-itch. I don’t want a divorce, but I do have the urge to sleep in another bed and suitors are wooing me like foghorns embracing the City by the Bay. There...
Exploring Hidden Nashville Attractions
If you look beyond the bright lights of the honky tonks, distilleries, and the Grand Ole Opry, you’ll discover a hidden Nashville. It’s a city that made a mark in history during the suffragette and...
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni: The Pearl of Lake Como
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni is one of the few remaining Grand Hotels in the world and the only five-star hotel in Bellagio, Lake Como. When George Clooney, Richard Branson, Donatella Versace, and...
Visiting the Canary Islands: To the Moon and Back
Déjà vu… heard of it… didn’t really believe in it …until my plane landed. My ticket read Spain but this destination looks just like Hawaii. Readers, I only had one glass of wine on the plane—okay...
Explore Quirky Fun at Musée Mécanique in San Francisco
Hysterical, screeching laughter; that’s the first thing you hear. Then you see her: a 6-foot-tall red-haired woman with freckles and gap teeth enclosed in a glass box. Laughing Sal is the unofficial...