Berkeley, United States Travel Blogs

mishti be banned
Mar 11, 2008

... exactly what went wrong in Bangladesh, why I was so unhappy, and why I simply couldn't make it work. Returned to Berkeley in contrast, where I should have cause for sadness (since my nomadic life has come to a screeching and premature end), the change in ...

The first of many...from Berkeley
Aug 29, 2006

Hi All, This is just an initial hello from the lovely Bay Area, and the starting point for this journey. We are each in the process of taking care of last last minute things...meaning still going from a pile of clothes to a packed backpack. At ...

Last day at Berkeley and a gourmet feast
Jun 1, 2007 (2 photos)

... Paracelsus fell into a similair category. Something to go back to in the future. Stumbled over a little enironmental activism in Berkeley. Apparently the football stadium is built over a fault line and they want to move the stadium a few yards south. ...

Addendum: Back in Berkeley
Oct 6, 2008

The next day, before we flew back to Oakland,  we wandered up Amsterdam Avenue to Sarabeth's for breakfast, and when we returned to The Lucerne, Jerry had the good luck to get back the clothes he'd left two weeks earlier. He'd made do with 3 ...

Mile 548.6: Berkeley Springs
Mar 7, 2006 (4 photos)

Mile 548.6 3/7/06 4:46 pm 48 degrees F Berkeley Springs is an interesting little town. It's a tourist trap and it's got its history. It's basically a town that was sprung about because of the natural hot springs that flows into the town. It's where the ...

The Plan
Jun 23, 2008

...     Born: USA Education: BA History and Poli Sci UCLA, Grad Student Harvard MA Middle Eastern Studies Location: Berkeley Ca Countries lived/traveled in: Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, US, Japan, Korea, Russia, Ireland Languages: English, ...

Day 34 - Fortunate Son
Jun 21, 2008 (5 photos)

Day 34 Moving day. We got a move on with the packing and getting everything in order. The shortage of boxes was an obstacle but I dished out all the plastic bags and such that I accumulated on the trip and somehow that sufficed. The moving people we ...

We start off...
Sep 9, 2009

... London.  No way!  We flew for 10 hours to London from San Francisco, leaving our perfectly comfortable house in Berkeley and carrying a typed agenda a mile long. The trip was in the planning stage for seven months and involved getting ...

Berkeley Springs, WV
Jun 17, 2007 (4 photos)

... headed west to a small town called Berkeley Springs in search of its state park. I must admit that when we stumbled upon Berkeley Springs State Park, we laughed a bit.  It's teeny; about the size of my backyard.  But, I sold it short ...

Home again, via "Minnie"
Jul 1, 2008

Home again, and I am so damned thankful to be back in Liberal Land, I just about kissed the ground when I staggered off the plane at SFO at 1:30 this morning.  Women without bows on everything!  No crosses!  Cool weather.  It was a ...

A little zomboid, but quite satisfied...
Oct 8, 2009

... ; 11 pm yesterday.  Catatonic might describe my state.  Feel run over by a great big airplane. Try to avoid United  Airlines, particularly steerage.  Definitely Jet-Blue it if they have a plane going wherever you're going  ...

Yo Sueno de Quito
Sep 30, 2009 (1 photos)

Some Reflections and Aspirations a week before my departure:  2,346 miles from Quito, Ecuador to Mendoza, Argentina.  Six months of backpacking will commence with one foot on either side of the equator, and take me as far south as the roads will go.  My set ...

Last Weekend in Berkeley
Oct 5, 2009

... was carried to an Ofrenda Ceremony intended to give and receive blessings for our trip.  I stayed warm through the cold night in Berkeley and imagined the scent of Andean air.  Today I woke up thankful for every breath of bay air that I could breathe.   ...

One last blast before Berkeley
Aug 3, 2005 (16 photos)

July 1-3 Berkeley, CA After two days of apartment searching on our whirlwind stop in Berkeley we found a great apartment six blocks from UC Berkeley's campus beating out 25 other applicants and decided to get to Maine early. We changed our flight to ...

packing and preparations
Sep 8, 2006 (1 photos)

well, the day is nearing. we continue to pack, tie up loose ends, and prepare. our flight is 9/13/06 via Airtech from SF to London. we're so close to leaving...

Back to Berkeley
Jun 11, 2007 (4 photos)

... , Elb, and his wife Adrienne generously offered to have us stay overnight.  Adrienne is a family doctor in a practice just south of Berkeley, and it was interesting to see that family/ general practice faces similar issues as we do in NZ.   In ...

San Francisco to Kyiv
Apr 13, 2004 (8 photos)

... studied with Alec at IIT and were coming out to visit during their Spring Break. We had an awesome time with them around Berkeley and San Francisco. We went on a great hike around Point Reyes National Seashore. The wind made it pretty chilly, but we still ...

Robyn's Graduation
May 15, 2008 (24 photos)

... up the California Coast was to attend Jay's daughter's graduation from Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley. It was a fabulous extended weekend with lots of visiting and eating and drinking and visiting and eating and drinking and ...

Preparations
Jan 21, 2009

I'm currently preparing to leave for India. Less than 3 weeks now!

Checking out the page
Mar 21, 2008

I am mostly just trying this thing out.  No travelling yet of course...really excited though!  Hope you guys see this, I am going to try to add a picture here  too.  TALK SOON!

Traffic on the bridge
Jan 12, 2007

Another full day of meetings. But the worst part of the day was getting home from SFO. Because the last train leaves the airport around midnight, and my flight arrived well after 11pm, I decided to drive instead of taking BART. The flight was delayed ...

Back to Berkeley
Feb 8, 2008

Cold again. What a strange place. Then, finally got out of the hotel ... and into a cab ... then back home.

UC Berkeley
Aug 5, 2007 (11 photos)

We are going to Berkeley today to visit some friends, and will probably go to UC Berkeley to walk around, here are some photos we have taken at SF yesterday. Went to Fisherman's Wharf, rode the cable car.

US
Jun 29, 2007

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Uit het vliegtuig!
May 8, 2009

De grote reis!   Ze zeggen tijd vliegt, maar het vliegt echt. Al weer 4 maanden ben ik terug in Nederland en goh, wat is er veel gebeurd! Al weer heel wat afgereisd in en rond Nederland en weer vele leuke feestjes en avonden gehad. En natuurlijk ...

Blizzards Suck
Feb 12, 2006

My flight got majorly delayed and didn't bring me back home until almost 3 am, technically Monday morning. Yuck.

Mapping Treasure Island
Jul 11, 2008 (21 photos)

Doing two jobs in the Bay Area while doing some work in the office. more to come...

chicago open mirror
Jul 28, 2001

... Big Red Blue... 9 5 0.643 Berkeley A 9 5 0.643 Pacific Midwest 5 9 0.357 Silicon Age 5 9 0.357 Stanford 4* 9 0.321 Berkeley C 2 12 0.143 * indicates Tie Top Fifteen Individual Scorers Player Team 10 5 Points Rounds PPG Snowshoe Berkeley B 80 6 770 14 ...

Leaving on a Jet Plane...
Mar 24, 2006

...with my roomies!

Around town
Aug 17, 2007

... to see the planes landing in SF International airport. Mati enjoyed that, I enjoyed being by the water. The we took off for Berkeley. It was a gorgeous day so we walked around the town and the University. I wanted to go to Uni there but I remember ...