By Alana Cole

Driving up the California coast on Thursday from LA to San Francisco, we stopped at a beach:

3:30 AM is never a good time to wake up, and it is an even worse time to be thrown from your sleep by a fire alarm. Luckily it was …

By Maya Shimony

To start our day, Etgar 36 took the BART (San Francisco Public Transportation) to Berkeley where we met with the Jewish Partisans Education Project. Daniel Riff, an alum of the 2004 summer trip, set up this program for us. We learned about leadership by hearing the stories …

By Liz Rosenberg

After an early morning wake up, we were all ready for a day of beautiful weather, lots of walking, and of course, public transportation. Our first stop of the day was with Global Exchange, where we learned about the organization’s attempts and successes at eliminating social injustice.…

From Ariel Rubinstein:

Upon arriving in San Francisco, we traveled to the heart of the city where we found our hotel. The Mosser Hotel was unlike anything we stayed in so far. It is a European style hotel in which most of the rooms share a bathroom with the hall …

From Ari Schiftan:

On Thursday, we hopped on the bus and headed up the coast from the smog of Los Angeles to the fog of San Francisco. The views of the mountains, valleys and ocean made great scenery for our ride.
The day was spent mostly driving though we made …

From Aaron Backer:

We got to San Francisco on Friday in the early evening. We were not able to make it to a synagogue so we walked over to the Yerba Buena Gardens for our own Friday night services. We talked about the importance of words to hurt and heal. …

Note to parents from group leader Billy Planer:

On Friday we made the magnificent ride up the coast. We stopped at the Hearst Castle to see how the rich and famous lived. We had a wonderful Shabbat service/discussion in Big Sur and rolled into San Francisco rather late on Friday …