My husband and I celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary with a week-long trip to San Francisco (from our home at the north end of Lake Tahoe). I had grown up in Palo Alto, and thought I knew a lot about San Francisco. Reed took us on a fantastic 3-hour tour of San Francisco in an adorable convertible Mini Cooper. He knows “The City” inside out, and he clearly loves to share his love of San Francisco with you. The Mini Cooper can get into every small nook and cranny - and it did. And I learned things I never knew - that the United Nations started in San Francisco in 1945 at the Fairmont Hotel (we saw the flags of the 46 nations invited to the inaugural meeting), or why there are no Victorian houses to the East of Van Ness, or the relationship between the Captain John C. Fremont who discovered Lake Tahoe and the controversial John C. Fremont of San Francisco, or the story of Lillie Hitchcock Coit, patron of the volunteer firefighters, who provided the funds both for Coit Tower and for a beautiful statue commemorating the firefighters in Washington Square, or how Charles Crocker spitefully built a wall around the house of a homeowner who would not sell his land to Crocker. We learned how the Palace of Fine Arts had originally been built of wood, burlap and plaster for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition - with a life expectancy of a year - it became such a beloved structure it was finally rebuilt with steel I-beams and concrete. Reed made history come alive. And he was incredibly flexible in making sure we saw what mattered to us. I cannot believe how much we saw, and how much we learned, in a delightful three hours with Reed.