Monika Trobits, a San Francisco resident for over three decades, established San Francisco Journeys in 2011. She will lead an Antebellum and Civil War San Francisco tour starting in October 2014. Monika holds a BA in history and political science from SF State University. She has been a docent and guide for the San Francisco Historical Society, San Francisco Urban Adventures and at SF City Hall. Her article Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco in the 1920s" was published in 2011 in the Argonaut, a historic journal."