A travel and lifestyle writer based in San Francisco, Laurie Jo Miller Farr contributes to CBS "Best of the Bay," AXS, USA Today, Examiner, and Bay City Guide. A a destination and hotel marketing veteran via New York City and half-a-lifetime in London, she moved on to San Francisco—and is wondering if that's a mistake since the ground is prone to shake. Farr received the 2013 Yahoo Contributor of the Year Award. She's on Twitter at @ReferencePlease.