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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. * The title of this page was inspired by Bay Area Backroads, a KRON-TV series that covered travel through the Bay Area and beyond. Sadly, the program was canceled, so links to those programs will not work.
About the logo:
My new logo above contains the pictures of the following areas, starting from the left:
- Carousel at the Arena Green near the San Jose Arena
- Almaden Meadows Park in San Jose's Almaden Valley
- The waterfall at the spillway at Anderson Dam in Morgan Hill
- Entrance to San Jose's Rosicrucian Museum
- Sculpture and pond near the entrance to the Oakland Museum
- Giant redwoods in the Heritage Grove, Sam McDonald County Park, Santa Cruz Mountains
- Baker Beach, San Francisco, with the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands in the background
- Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad in Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos during Halloween
Update Notes:
- 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.
- 10/09 - Yahoo killed geocities.com, so any links to
Geocities pages will not work. I migrated my Geocities pages to my new
website, rhorii.com. See the note on the Geocities migration.
- 7/24/11 - AT&T killed the Prodigy Personal Web Pages, effectively wiping out the original site. Archives of the site can still be found in the Internet Archive, from May 1, 2009. This page is an attempt to re-create this site on my personal website, rhorii.com. However, this is an old site. I don't have time to update all the pages, so many of them will likely have lots of stale links and some outdated information. Still, some things never change, so there should be much relevant information to be found here.
- 8/1/11 Updated some links on this page.
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
New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association
Almaden Quicksilver Park
Edgewood County Park
Bay Trail Pages
Spring Lake, Santa Rosa
UCSB Pictures
College Tours
Travel FAQs
Bay Area Parks
Arastradero Preserve
Santa Teresa Hills
Outdoor Photography