Hotel Domain - Joie De Vivre Hotel Sunnyvale

... with over our years of traveling has been trying to find good Sourdough bread - it doesn't exist east of Arizona, along with Italian dry salami and Artichokes. Well, Castroville is the Artichoke Capitol of the WORLD and we hit the mother lode. We found a stand selling artichokes. In fact you could purchase 10 for $1. They are little, about fist sized, but really good. Who cares if you ...

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 looking forward to boring the hell out of you with our pictures at New Years!

Departure day caught us unslept and unprepared. Pam fed the babies while I scurried around to pack for our first trip with the boys. They just turned five weeks on Thursday. I fit about two thirds of the stuff we staged for the trip into the minivan and Pam ...

... veroorzaakten. De oplossing: een huis bouwen dat nooit af zou komen. Ze kocht dus een leuk boerderijtje in San Jose en begon aan de verbouwing... die 38 jaar lang dag en nacht door ging, tot haar dood. Het resultaat was een huis vol rare niveau verschillen, telkens een stukje erbij geplakt, deuren en een trap die nergens naartoe leiden en heel veel on-afgemaakte ...

The only thing that could have made wearing toques and eating poutine more Canadian would have been watching a hockey game instead of the Canada vs. Chile football match ...

... it is one of my favourite cities in the whole world. I couldn't wait to get here. Now I'm here, and I couldn't find a couch to surf. Well, I didn't start looking for it early enough. I stay now at a wierd hostel with mostly old guys, but it is the cheapest in town and right next to Union Square. And it doesn't really matter, because even if I didn't found a couch, I meet up with some of the surfers, who populate the couches I asked for it. So the hostel I stay here, is only for the nights ...

Ok so after a 10 hour day yesterday I finished my first official day of classes! Whew! Long Day- ALOT of info! My head hurt after wards! I don't think it's appropriate to tell you everything I experienced but suffice to say that the whole purpose of the first two days of classes is to desensitize you to all the material you will be encountering over the course of your studies. Some of it was to be expected, some of ...

... hostel. I can't believe we've got to leave tomorrow. There's still so much to see and do - never enough time! That should be our motto for the whole trip I think. I would definitely come back to visit again. It's a much nicer city than LA. It's still busy and a bit grubby but it's a nice place to be. Everything it easy to get too, there's loads to do and lots of place to eat and drink. It gets a thumbs up from me and I'll be sad to leave.

... really weird?? llike you can have your burger in "animal style" or "protein style" and the cups and burger wrappers have weird bible references on them like "john 3:16" or revelation :4:50" or some ****. apperantly its owned by mormans..... wonder how many muslims are eating that ****? probably not gonna go to vegas but went to reno and sacraemento. anyways having a ball and have already about 200 photos so you guys will see it all cheers, xoxo dylan

The time has finally come to head out to the San Francisco airport. Months of preparation have led up to this. The realization that I will be traveling for a whole semester hasn't quite sunk in yet, but the fact that I am leaving definately has! Today I have been excited/nervous, trying to comprehend that I am about to travel completely around the world. For the past eight ...