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 ay
Area Back Pages* are Web pages I've created to provide information on
the
San Francisco Bay Area and California. My name is Ron Horii. I live in
the San Francisco Bay Area in San Jose at the southern rim of Silicon
Valley.
I've done a lot of travelling, sightseeing,
hiking, biking, fishing, and camping in the Bay Area and other places
around
California.. I'm an avid shutterbug, and I have tons of photographs
from
the many places I've been to. My wife and I have raised 2 children who
are now grown up. Over the years, we've taken them to playgrounds,
museums,
theme parks, and other places. In these Web pages, I hope to share some
of my travel experiences, pictures, and advice on where to take
children
to keep them amused. I hope it helps people looking for things to do in
the Bay Area and California. Click on the pictures to go to that page.
The ones on the left are the biggest. Hiking and Biking are split into
many separate pages. Other pages are listed on the right. Click on the
buttons at the right to go to those pages.
 * Not to be confused
with Bay Area Backroads, which used to be one the
best Bay Area travel TV programs, in my opinion. Unfortunately, it's
not on the air anymore.
However, you can still check out their Web
page.
About the logo:
My new logo above contains the pictures of the following
areas, starting
from the left:
Recent Update Notes:
I'm constantly working on updating these pages, so
you may
find they have different styles as I change them. Most started as very
simple layouts that I did using Netscape Navigator Gold. More recent
ones
use tables for layout. Most recently, I started using Symantec's Visual
Page, including this page. I'm working on updating all the pages
eventually.
Here are the most recent updates:
- Home page created 10/2/97. New layout and design using
Symantec Visual
Page: 2/7/99. Updated 3/5/99.
- "Cheap Eats With Great Views" updated 2/4/99
- Major upgrade to "The North Coast and the Redwood Empire"
1/31/99, page
relayout in the works.
- Added pictures to "What to Do With Teenagers" 1/31/99
- Minor changes to "Best Places to Take Young Children"
1/31/99
- Added pictures to "The Central Valley" 1/31/99
- Major cleanup and update to links on "Tech Pages: Scanning"
1/27/99
- "Bay Area Biking" is now the biggest section, with almost
200 new pictures.
The Los Gatos Creek Trail alone is a major photo essay, split into 5
Web
pages. Last update 1/26/99.
- The "North Coast" section has been greatly expanded into 5
Web pages with
much more information and using the home page template, 2/99.
- Added link to San Francisco Web Ring 5/27/99
- 10/4/00: Bay Area Back Pages was on TV! Thanks
TechNow! If you go
to KNTV's (channel 11 in San Jose)
TechNow! Website and click on the September 30, 2000 archive,
Realplayer
will come up to replay the show. (You need to have the Realplayer
plug-in
installed on your computer.) If you move to the 23:48 time point
by moving the slider at the top, or just wait for that amount of
time, you'll see them talking about this webpage. One correction: I
live
in San Jose, not San Francisco, not that I'd mind living there.
- 10/4/00 - New stuff - My New Pages: I haven't been
updating these
pages on Prodigy.net, since I used up all my alotted space on Prodigy.
(Hey Prodigy, I need more space!) I've got new Web pages on Yahoo
Geocities,
called "Ron Horii's San Francisco Bay Recreation and Travel Pages." I
also
created a Web site for the Friends of Santa Teresa Park and pages on
Santa
Teresa Park itself. Lately, I've been working on guided photo
tours
for ABAG's Bay Trail Project. You'll see these links on the right.
- 7/4/01 - made corrections, added more links to my new pages
on the right.
- 7/22/01 - I found out I got more space. Thanks, Prodigy.
Now I can update
these pages. I updated and added links to my California
Parks page. I fixed all the stale links in my North
Coast Parks page. The state parks Website was reorganized, causing
all my old links to give an ominous "security alert" message.
- 7/22/01 - I started a new Website called Bay
Area Parks. I plan to use it for in-depth descriptions of parks,
with
pictures. The first park on that page is Arastradero
Preserve in Palo Alto.
- 7/22/01 - I received a report that the backgrounds on some
of my older
pages made the text hard to read. I found this was true when I switched
my video to 16-color mode, but in 256-color mode or higher, there was
no
problem. If you have problems, make sure you are in 8-bit mode or
higher.
I don't know if certain video cards or monitors will still have
problems.
Let me know if you do.
- 7/25/01 - Updated and added new links to the North
Coast Links page.
- 7/28/01 - Updated, added new links and detailed
descriptions to the Best
Places to Take School-Age Children page.
- 9/5/03 - Redesigned and updated Places
to Take Young Children.
- 9/28/07 - Made a new version of the Los
Alamitos Creek Trail page.
- 7/28/09 - Redesigned and updated Best
Places to Go Swimming in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- 11/18/09 - Changed links to Geocities websites, as
Geocities is now defunct. My Geocities home page is now on rhorii.com and most of my other
Geocities websites have been moved to it or other sites. It will take a
lot of time to fix the Geocities links on all the pages, so please be
patient.
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Other
Pages
What to Do With Teens
Essay on Open Space
How Green Is My Valley
Scenic Drives
Cheap Eats
With Views
Southern
California
Deserts
Sierras
Gold Country
Central Valley
Vegas
My Tech Pages
Here are some pages that I started for answering some
technical questions
of friends, relatives, and co-workers.:
Scanning
Anti-Virus
My New Pages
SF Bay Area Rec & Travel Page
Friends of Santa Teresa Park
Santa Teresa Park Pages
Almaden Quicksilver Park
Edgewood County Park
Bay Trail Pages
Portola State Park
Spring Lake, Santa Rosa
UCSB Pictures
College Tours
Travel FAQs
Bay Area Parks
Arastradero Preserve
Coyote Creek Trail
Outdoor Photography
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