Old Oakland

Oakland , California, United States
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    7 reviews 27 travel blogs 4 photos

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    Neighborhood

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  • 1

    Day 23: An evening of MUSIC!!!!

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    ... elements of samba, hip-hop, funk, heavy metal, dancehall & reggae, and have quickly earned a reputation as one of Oakland California's most raucous and jubilant party bands.' Oh yes indeed. And there were a lot of girls, drumming the bass drums, ...

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    Day 14: Dead Computers and Lakeside Fun

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    ... to install, took an entire day. I felt like going home, but had been invited to an early evening picnic at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Drumming up some courage, I decided just to try it and see - I've been craving some social time, so perhaps this would fit ...

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    Night out with the girl friends

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    ... is as follows...  Oakland's Paramount Theater is one of the finest remaining examples of Art Deco design in the United States. Designed by renowned San Francisco architect Timothy L. Pflueger and completed in late 1931, it was one of the first ...

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    Day 13

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    After a quick conference responsibility, the three of us were off to do some final sight seeing in San Francisco, since Oakland doesn't offer much to see. So we made a short "to see" list and we were off. Traffic was pretty light on Memorial Day, so we ...

  • 5

    Joel's day with Serena

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    ... from the pool, but Daniel had to go to work (at a different pool)! Serena and I dropped him off, then went to the Oakland airport to get Perrine (from Olympia). I had met her when Se was at the Vancouver Waldorf School. She was happy it was raining, ...

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    Disclamer

    ... give me a break for a little lack of memory for exact dates. I was on vacation, had more than usual to drink and I'm old. :) Besides, that's one of the neat things about vacations, all the details about dates and times cease to be important and just the ...

  • 7

    Introducing...

    ... be bringing along a video camera with us, so I'm hoping to have some video blog entries, as well as the regular, boring old typed entries.  The challenge will be figuring out how to upload the videos at a random internet cafe on the other side of ...

  • 8

    Another adventure...plus one.

    ... travel to the East coast to visit family and see friends in L.A. while I was pregnant. But now that our little one is six months old, we got the travel bug and in need of some beach time. We had free Jetblue flights to use so we finally settled on ...

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    Final Wrap-up

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    ... cut - Cruise ship lounge singer. The one they had was terrible! How many times was "How I Met Your Mother", "New Adventures of Old Christine", "Gary Unmarried" and "The Craig Furguson Show" shown on a loop - Endless. I think the sames shows are still on, ...

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    Resources and References

    ... "wish book." Well, this has been my wish book for years. Not just the equipment, but also and increasingly the trails and trips they review! (side note, my dad isn't really that old - it was probably just the Sears catalog, without the ...