I like the bridge shot!
But I liked the Bay Area. We spent three years in Fremont, when Igor was employed by Ford Aerospace, in Palo Alto.
Yeah, the Bay Area’s not horrible, but the kook fringe is VERY evident, here; much more so than in “normal” parts of the country.
BTW: If you click on one of my pictures, on the right side of the page that comes up, there’s a box that shows what flickr calls my “photostream”. You can click the right and left arrows below the image in that box to scroll through stuff I’ve uploaded. There’s a shot of the Grand Canyon in there that I think you’ll just LOVE.