Holiday Inn Express Suites East Santa Cruz

... caught up on sleep after San Fran. Up at 9am and headed towards Fisherman's Wharf and looked in lots of gift shops. Rich got tempted by clam chowder so we had lunch on the pier, sitting next to lots of huge pelicans outside the window! Very scary. Then drove down Cannery Row, named after a John Steinbeck novel! Went in a shop that sold things that ...

... rundown, so instead we picked a little town just outside Santa Cruz called Capitola.<br><br>Although not quite the Big Sur that we would be travelling down later on in the week,the drive along the coast was fantastic and we stopped off a number of times at beautiful deserted beaches with rough, Pacific waves. <br><br>When we arrived at our b&amp;b, The Jewel Box, we were so pleased, it was really sweet and had a ...

... great for a first impression of a Cali beach...but then again I've always kind of considered Cali to be gross with city side-effects...kind of like the ones I had in front of me. I'm sure they get better...<br><br>Randoms:<br>-Super tall skinny trees<br>-Christa and I singing "Anthem" by Good Charlotte? surprisingly still knew the words<br>-Shotgunning beers in the sink at 9:30...a.m.<br>-"Going to California" Led Zep<br>-Conversation with Brits about Jaegerbombs. They had just heard of ...

... asked them the name of the song, because she would bet $10 they didn&#8217;t know. Why didn&#8217;t she ask? She was too busy trying not to punch them in the nose. When Bri asked if we could get two coffees, not knowing that they poured them instead of us, Mr. Douche behind the counter scoffed and said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. Do you want to pick one?&#8221; Then when Bri asked Ms. Douche which muffin she thought was the best, she rolled her eyes ...

... it has to be done. Me, Kate, and Tony are going to go do something later tonight...not sure what yet. I will probably just hang out at their house until then...I feel like I should be out exploring, but I am so tired and the three upcoming days in San Francisco will be jam packed, so I suppose I should rest a bit and save my energy...we'll see. I'm never good at sitting around when I'm on vacation.

... there. She got me connected with some people who worked in the Silicon Valley and were computer savvy after I mentioned being on facebook. On the way back to the house and even to the community center, Tanya and I got a chance to talk about what the future of this SGI organization is going to look like and what we have to do in order for people to help the group along that path of growth. The SGI is about people, people challenging themselves to dream and create visions for ...

We left San Francisco after having a great weekend with old friends. It was time to leave and our next destination was Santa Cruz. We drifted south on the highway one and stopped along the way to check out surf that we saw on the way to Pacifica. The waves were really choppy and haphazard. Jess and i weren't very stoked on it, but we asked a guy that just got out of the water if he knew anywhere that would be more protected from the wind. He ...

... s new pad (unbelievable spot in Capitola/Santa Cruz, CA) in good form. We kept all the bikes upright the entire trip and were ahead of schedule. We planned on riding more of the PCH on Wednesday, but due to some heavy fog, we decided we would just ride to the BMW dealership and drop the bikes off for their journey home. The last ...

... most amazing time, got some memories that will last a lifetime and more, met some amazing people, and learned so much about East Asia (or a small piece of it), about myself, about people in general, and about what is out there in the world. I've been wanting to do this trip for such a long time, I'm so happy to have finally done it, and grateful for the opportunity and ability to do have done so. Well, anyway.... was just posting to let everyone know I'm home safe ...

... Je vidno, ze toto je uz severna Kalifornia a vzduch je tu o nieco ostrejsi. Napriek tomu tu uz kvitnu stromy. :-) Hned ako sme sa ubytovali sme isli postavit nas stanok na RSA konferenciu. No a potom na obed a ked si ostatni isli pospat sa som vyrazil do ulic, aby som si to tu trochu obehol. Kedze je to tu vsetko v dosahu pesiaka, tak som stihol vidiet zname "Cable cars" - tie zname vagony, ktore sa stveraju hore kopcami, vidiet ...