Palo Alto

Palo Alto is a bustling small city just south of the Peninsula south of San Francisco. It is home to Stanford University and hundreds of Silicon Valley technology companies ranging from Hewlett Packard to tiny startups operating in garages (which is exactly how HP started). Palo Alto means high tree in Spanish, and refers to an aging redwood tree at the north end of the city, hard by the CalTrain tracks at the trestle bridge that crosses the San Francis Quito creek, which forms the   More...