Oakland
Travel Blogs from Oakland, United States
Day 23: An evening of MUSIC!!!!
... combine 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 ...
Day 14: Dead Computers and Lakeside Fun
... 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 ...
New Year's Day, Joel
After babysitting the new spaniel puppy for sister Loel, Chan and I discovered a remarkable rock concert on TV at midnight while cruising for the Times Square countdown. It was a 1990 extravaganza, featuring the Band, Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, Van ...
Night out with the girl friends
... website 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 ...
Enough chit-chat... we're finally leaving!
Greetings! It's been a long wait, but the day have finally arrived for us to head out for our big cruise in Russia and Scandinavia. We have a lot to look forward too... we will be visiting: London, UK Copenhagen, Denmark Stockholm, Sweden ...
Farewell to Central America
Wed. I traveled back to Oakland (well…Wed and part of Thursday :) Somewhat strangely, I’m pretty sure this two months was the longest I’ve gone without being on a plane for at least 5 years. I took a tiny tiny plane from Caye ...
An update on training (and welcome to my blog!)
... hikes with my friends Sandy and Ella (Ella is a fur person). Lately, I've been hiking in Redwoods Regional Park (in the Oakland hills) with my pack on. I started out doing a pretty challenging 6 mile loop with some elevation. The last three times, ...
Back to the US
It was an adventurous trip home, but I arrived. After arriving at the Sydney airport in the morning, I learned that my flight was delayed for 5 hours for unknown reasons (although when I called earlier they said that everything was on time). In ...
Alle sind gut angekommen
Heute sind endlich alle in Oakland angekommen. Renae ist mit Daphne aus Long Beach hier nach Oakland gefahren. Die beiden waren so gegen 11:30 hier. Wir sind dann zu dritt Richtung San Francisco Airport gefahren. Ich habe Daphne und Renae in der Stadt ...
Day 13
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 ...
Oakland to Washington D,C,
... that we had to be there by, at least, 5pm in order to catch our ship, they booked us on the last two seats from Oakland to Dulles, Washington D.C. at 11:10 pm tonight-- and then booked us on a 10:30 am flight to Fort Lauderdale the following day. ...
Countdown
20 hours and 15 min... Just about everything is packed and ready to go. In exactly 24 hrs, my flight will be taking off from LA heading to Sydney (assuming it actually takes off on time). I can't ...
whosloafy? (part 1, for my offtrail friends)
If you're on this blog, you probably know me. But if you know me from off the trail, you might not know what this Loafy thing is all about. There's a tradition on the Appalachian Trail that people have "trail names" - an alternate name that they go by ...
Serena's Party
Today was a day totally devoted to my daughter Serena giving her first party. It was a Channukah party, with traditional Jewish food, games, songs, and presents. I got up the earliest, but was soon swept away by Serena to the Orchard Hardware Store ...
Joel's day with Serena
... 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, ...
Hmmm...change of plans
... pretty quickly and start the long journey back. Vientiane --> Phnom Penh-->Ho Chi Minh City-->Hong Kong-->SFO-->Oakland-->Seattle...not the most fun ever. I was reminded one more time why I love this part of the world so ...
Disclamer
Ok, here's the Disclamer. I wrote this blog almost a month after our trip and the majority of it is from memory. Therefor, some of the days or times may not be exactly correct. Like, I can't really remember what day "Dutch Night" was, but I do remember ...
Introducing...
Helloooo! Welcome to our travel blog. Logan and I just spent 20 minutes thinking of a title for it, so you'd better like it! Oh, by the way, most of this blog will probably be updated by me, Katie. Logan doesn't care, because he is ...
One Month
... need to get used to cooking with the food available to us, which will undoubtedly be different from what we're used to in the States. Logan moved up to McKinleyville on Saturday to live with his parents before the big trip, which was the same day I had my ...
Mister know it all.
The difference between men and women is that men look at things as they are and say, "I know how to do this, this is the way it needs to be done." Women look at things as they are and say, "You don't have to ...
Travel day...SFO to San Jose
So the first day wasn’t the most exciting. Since I’ve only been away from work for 2 days, I’m going to stay true to consultant form and summarize it in 4-5 bullet points: * 5am: Pack * 7am: Sit in ...
Hitting the dusty road....
... me Friday morning( THANKS STEVE, YOU TRULY ARE A GOOD FRIEND!!!!!!!)!! Things always have a way of working themselves out! We are leaving Oakland at around 12:00pm today to head to So. Cal to visit a good friend of mine, Laylah. From there we are ...
Down to the wire
It's finally here. The days are upon us and we are about to embark on our international journey. This party of four is bringing along my mom too. We will be heading to the Philippines in less than 36 hours and we're almost done packing. Two weeks to be ...
Another adventure...plus one.
Wow, so last year about this time, my hubby and I should have been basking in the sun along the Yucatan peninsula. But that was not the case. Instead, we found ourselves unable to travel due to some unexpected changes. That being, we were going to ...


