I'm just tying up loose ends before Wednesday (which means less than a week [oh my goodness!]). I'm still trying to figure out presents that Ghanaians might like, which is actually pretty tricky... a suitcase full of Big Macs? But other than that I'm pretty set. My final list: AA batteries, bobby pins, and pants that aren't jeans. Even though I ...

We got up at the crack of sparrows to get the BART to Oakland station to catch the coast starlight train to LA. However, it eventually became apparent that the train was 5 hours late, so we missed most of the beautiful view, which was partly the point of the exercise. However the (very slow) train was quite cool, in that it was double decker and...