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San Jose Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Jose, United States
Journeys End
... night but just decided to pass on by. I put the peddle to the metal and kept on going through the night until I reached San Jose. It was sooo good to finally be back home and sleeping in my own bed! Now that the trip is over, I ...
Krzemowe Sekwoje
... i na całym świecie - Krzemowej Doliny. Po wyjechaniu z naszego motelu z dykty szybko dotarliśmy do San Jose - stolicy Krzemowej Doliny. O tym jak poruszać się po drogach w USA napiszemy jutro, tutaj warto wspomnieć tylko ...
Day 46 - Freudenberger Culture
... that'd been sitting there for maybe a full year. It was packed at the place. Apparently, this chain opened up more recently in San Jose. I was surprised to find that despite being fast food, they cut the potatoes in front of you and fry them there. They ...
Day 45 - Dynamic Discussions
... library system with a man name named John and then found myself talking to a teacher Audrey, Peter and Sarah about Miami, Baltimore, San Jose and cultures in these different places. After everyone had left, I got a chance to talk to Peter and catch up ...
Day 42 - Men Who Overcome
Day 42 This is the start of a weekend full of driving and going to do activities with other SGI youth. I had to get up early as I'd been in touch with some young guys from the Sillicon Valley area and they were planning on going to Oakland today to ...
Day 41 - Practical Training
... just passed away recently after fighting illness for quite a while. She left the estate to donate to Soka University of America a San Jose State University for hispanics who can't afford to go to college. She also left the property for Tanya to take care ...
The Beautiful White Lady
Tahitian Princess - Ship Description At 594 feet long, Tahitian Princess carries only 670 cruise-goers between the tropical islands of the South Pacific, including the celebrated shores of French Polynesia and Hawaii. This Explorer-class ship offers all ...
San Jose, USA
... would have hands like Jeremy Beadle. We trawl through the late rooms app on the iPad and come across a gem of a hotel in a place called San Jose which is about an hour and a half South of San Francisco, as its around 10pm we hit the bar for a couple of ...
Home Sweet Home!!
... to San Jose. It was really hard to leave San Diego. I can not wait to go back this summer. I spend the next week in San Jose seeing family and friends and just hanging out. I ate so much food while I was home it was so yummy, sushi, ...
Lazy Days...
I love lazy days. Especially when they include delicious smoothies. We might go to Tahoe tomorrow... or we might go to Santa Cruz. I'm kind of leaning towards Santa Cruz just because I love the beach, but then I think, I'll be beach bumming it for a ...
Bye Bye San Francisco & Hello Muir Woods
... in :D BUT it has a Texas licence plate. It however didn't come with a complementary gun or even a gun-rack :( Our destination was San Jose, where we were going to meet up with Jennifer (a friend of Trude's), but we wanted to do a little sight-seeing ...
The New Apple Pie
What is more American than apple pie? Whatever happened to grandma's secret recipe passed down from generation to generation? The taste of a warm homemade apple pie has lost itself in a generation of cell phones and silicone. So what is more American ...
Costa Rican History
... ! The only country in the world without an army! Did you know that when the Nicaraguan government (with support from the United States) imposed its presense in northern Costa Rica, Costa Ricans themselves held them back! Amazing! The very museum we stood ...
Back in Cali
... but decided to wake up early and go hiking in the redwoods tomorrow instead. I CANNOT wait to go to the redwoods. Haven't been back since the first time I came to San Fran in 2001. I think it's exactly the cure I need for my homesickness of ...
Of Journals, Journeys, Julie and Julia
... him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will be concerned to tell." - Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners San Jose Mercury News columnist Leigh Weimers writes in his final column this week: "When paleontologists discovered those fossil ...
The Secret Anniversaries of the Heart
I can't believe all that needs doing before I leave next Thursday. Buying Thailand, Sri Lanka - btw, both of these are so out-of-date post-tsunami - and India guidebooks I spotted Petra Nemcova's memoir - she's the supermodel who survived the tsunami - ...
The New Kid in Town
Returning home after over four months out of the country has been somewhat surreal and dreamlike. Cloudy days and crowded streets have been replaced by blue skies and those sparkling night-lights we call stars. From Southeast Asia to China I have been ...
Advice for Kris_kck@yahoo.com
Kris, I tried a couple times to send the following response to your email address. It was returned as undeliverable. Anyways, below is the original message I sent. I hope you get this: I am more than happy to answer any questions you may ...
Narrative Journalism, Not Just The Facts 'Mam
... of storytelling I intend. The first story is the beginning of an article from the Bangkok newspaper, The Nation. The San Francisco Chronicle's six-month tsunami anniversary piece is similar albeit a tad more compelling read. The second is my take ...
Travel As Everything is a Possible Poem
A friend who came back from doing the Camino de Santiago earlier asks what should he write about next now that his pilgrimage travelogue is over. (BTW, He's moved to new city in his country after his return.) I write: Much of the Camino ...
Pause
... que prevue, nous sommes a Paris chez ma soeur Milence pour quelque temps. Les motos sont installees en storage a San Jose, Californie: Nous les recupererons probablement en Novembre pour continuer notre voyage. En attendant, voici quelques videos ...
The Last Supper
... and a half months in Dalian teaching English during the summer Ten months in Chengdu teaching English during the year Return to San Jose. Watch a movie. Well, I hope you will enjoy reading my travelogues and share your thoughts with me. First stop, ...
A Pilgrim's Thanksgiving
Of course I noticed the tie-in to pilgrims today! That one's easy. I recall wandering around Prague on my own on Thanksgiving 2000, eating with international expatriates in a Vietnamese restaurant in Rome 2002 and dining on exquisite turkey mole ...
Be Attentive to Signs, Pilgrim
I'll tell you the origins of how this came to be a pilgrimage sometime soon. But I'd like to speak of yesterday. "Is it fair to say that a pilgrimage is people? People as opposed to a topic? After hearing hundreds of descriptions of the difference ...
Do you know the way to San Jose?
... here, I love, love, love Monterey! We then took a detour on our way to San Francisco to visit the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose', you’ve heard the nursery rhyme "This is the house that Jack built" well this is the house that Sarah built in ...
Less than 6 hours to go and I DID IT!
I DID IT! As a typical engineer, the productivity shoots off the roof as time approches the deadline. Magically, at 11am, the apartment turned empty and I have no idea how I did it. Starting last night until now, it's been ...
It is possible
Finally, I think this is possible. With the help from Kevin, Kelly, George, Sam, Shihta and John Huang, within 3 hours, we moved most of the stuff out of my apartment, picked up everything from storage location 1 (Story Rd) and moved everything to ...
Packing Frenzy
... for the first loop of travel confirmed. The theme is the ancient culture. The current schedule: Feb 17, 2007 San Jose -> Feb 18, 2007 Taipei, Taiwan Feb 24, 2007 Taipei, Taiwan -> Bangkok, Thailand ...
Anxious and excited
Finally, we made up our mind to do this, in many of our families' and friends' eye, an unthinkable thing - leaving a comfortable, stable life and job for a complete world of unknown. I am glad that we made that decision and am so excited just ...