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Mountain View Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mountain View, United States
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Sunday 1 June
This is a top pick! ... way we passed real Amish people in their carriages with horses pulling them, on their way back from church. We found a Walmart at Mountain View to stop over for the night. This was not a 24 hour superstore so we thought we had better ask ...
The Cycling is Worth the Flight to California!
No huge updates today - had a nice, lazy day after eight hours of sleep. I think that's the first time in years I've slept more than five or six hours - fantastic! Must be a result of our fantastic Easter dinner. I also got in an hour swim ...
A day to relax
Did nothing much on this day. Tito Buddy and I accompanied Pages to a wonderful church service. They themselves have been shopping around for a church and have attended this particular one only three times before. After church, Tito Buddy ...
Bill and Nancy Echols
... rain and chill of this nasty cold front, we are ready to find my (Jodie's) cousins, Bill Echols and his wife Nancy in Mountain View, MO, Zetty Echols in Summersville, MO and Jon Echols in St. Louis, MO. Following our GPS farther and farther ...
I'd rather be watching Top Chef....
I am perplexed. At what point did the internet become this huge, complex entity filled with overwhelming CHOICE. Choice is a dangerous thing - it can literally short circuit your brain (I'm sure there's a study about this somewhere...online) and cause ...
22 days before we leave.......still getting ready
[Entry by Derek] Well, well, well...............22 days to go and we still have a long list of things to do before we leave on our 14 week adventure around the world. I've finally gotten around to setting up our travel blog. I've been ...
Heading off to the airport
Well, everything is packed and ready. We head to the airport in under 2 hours..............two flights through the night and tomorrow. 4 hours from San Francisco to Mexico City. Then 9.5 hours from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. We ...
my travels
Moved to a farm in an old school bus. No house on the farm. Lived in the bus until my dad built 2 shacks and an outhouse. Took a bath once a week in a big metal wash tup and shared the water with my 2 brothers and sister. 1 at a time of course while the ...
day 7
... I started this adventure. So far everything I have seen and done has been great. I left Reno this morning and arrived in Mountain View around 1:30 this afternoon. I will be going into San Francisco much of this week and plan on leaving on Saturday or ...
Honest Folk and Folk Music
... On the way there were 'flea markets' dotted along every road, looked like everyone's crap after they'd done a spring clean. Arriving in Mountain View, we read that it was the World Capital of Folk Music and the Town Square was the place to be after dark. ...
Goodbye Lockheed Martin
Well, I did it. Today I told my boss that March 30 will be my last day at Lockheed Martin. For the last year and a half I have planned to leave Lockheed and travel for a year or so. Today I took the first step to making it happen. ...
This would be the last time ...
... , 1993 Before taking you on my journey back to New York ... I had a short journey north of Monterey, CA ... to the town of Mountain View, CA. It was on this night that I would see my favorite band, The Grateful Dead. Little did ...
Blanchard Springs Caverns
Spent the day in the caverns. Took 2 tours - Discovery and Dripstone trails. Strolled through large, beautifully lighted rooms with handrails and paved trails where we saw glistening formations like stalactites, stalagmites, columns and where flowstones ...
Mountain View Folk Music Capital of the World
Music is an integral part of Mountain View culture. Daily musicians gather around the Courthouse square for impromptu jam sessions - folk style. People bring their own instruments and join in.Enjoyed the Irish Step Dancers at the famous Ozark Folk ...
Wow! Getting closer
Our Countdown Clock just dropped below 9 day. 8 days, 23 hours, 55 minutes until we leave SFO. Gotta go pack! ...
June 29, 2009
This is a great day to take a walk outside if you love the hot weather because it's just a fairly good day to get some outdoor exercise. The weather is hot outside. ...
Cindy Snow's wedding
... and it reminds you of an antebellum mansion from the south. It was great to catch up with Aunt Dee, Diane and Debbie Snow. Mountain view is a great little town in the middle of the Ozarks. Every night on the town square people meet and play Ozark folk ...
Last minute packing and planning.
Our bags are packed. We've practice-zipped (and to our amazement, they do close!) We are soooo ready to go. But there is only one way to begin this blog - with a huge thank you to our Dad for this incredible gift! Thank you! We love you! We are ...
The Beginning of a Journey?
Blogging is not my forte, but I ran across the blog of someone else beginning their Round the World (RTW) trip, and it sounded nice. Unfortunately, we are not leaving on our RTW trip until October. That means that the "travel" part of the travel ...
Mountain View LIVE!
Every Thursday in downtown Mountain View, they turn the main drag into a pedestrian area, have cover bands and some people park their crazy cars on the street. Me and a few of my Couchsurfing friends went at least three times over the summer. It was ...
Descent
Having gone to sleep extra early, we wake up to see the sunrise from our little cabin in the woods. Our activity for the day is SPELUNKING! We went to Blanchard Springs Caverns and began the descent. The cave is amazing. It is a ...
Relaxing with Friends
... to finally get to hang out with her. Friday night was a great catchup evening. We started off by heading to the Mountain View Performing Arts center to see Danzon! It is a Latin American ballet choreographed to music from Argentina, Venezuela, and ...
Ozark Heritage Center
... . Nancy is such a great sport, no fussing or anything, just took it in stride. This changes our itinerary somewhat, but there are almost always some glitches in any travel plans. So, we spend another night in Mountain View. ...
Trust?
Part of my "great adventure" will be figuring out how to be happy every day- even when I'm not traveling. I mean, I can't just travel the world forever! So, I decided I'd start by setting a few goals. My goal right now is to try to be more trusting of ...
Everything moved into storage except my backpack a
It's weird seeing my apartment completely empty. It reminds me of when I first moved in and everything was new. ...
Departure tomorrow
... out to Cali where I spent a week with Brett and Jacob in LA before driving north to stay with Sharon where I grew up in Mt. View, CA. Got to visit George out in Oakland and Chau came to see San Francisco for the first time. It's been fun ...
Day 12
Today was my last day of interning. Kim drove me to work early again and as always I helped brew the coffee and start up the computer programs. It was bring your family to work day and during our three runs, many NASA families walked in the lab for a ...
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