Larkspur Landing Sunnyvale

... scenic drive over Hecker Pass. This brought us into Watsonville. Not much here so we headed down to Moss Beach for an excellent seafood lunch at Phil's Fish Market - www.philsfishmarket.com From here we headed to Castroville for some artichokes.

Now, we love this life on the road and have very few complaints about this lifestyle. In fact, the biggest issue that we have been ...

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!

jaja kommt schon noch was... :) und hier isses! Wird nicht viel sein... Also am 18.4.09 in Sunnyvale angekommen und wartete auf die Toby eine Freundin von meiner Mom, bei der ich 3 Naechte auf der Couch geschlafen hab. Dort hab ich auch weiterhin nach Jobs gesucht, mit der Toby auch eine Bewerbung ausgearbeitet. Aber da ich wusste dass ich bald aus Sunnyvale verschwinde (da war nix ...

... seconds. And this is not far from Vegas, so its not much cooler there. Got a quick photo of us in the heat and promptly legged back to the car. Onward to Yosemite Valley. This is a place I'd been to in 2000, and it hasn't changed too much. Still big feck-off forests and rock faces jutting everywhere. Saw a lot more last time. This was just a quick stop on the way through. There are all kinds of walks to do, including a hike to see El Capetan (which is ...

... at the end, but that is pretty much it. I also checked out the campus of the Arizona State University with all the nice girls walking around. But besides that I didn't do a thing. Oh yeah, Mat and I went out nearly every night, but besides the weekend never really long because Mac had to work on the next day. I had a good time in Phoenix anyways. A really good one to be honest, because I could chill out and do nothing again. But the time came that I had to leave Phoenix and get on ...

... my best to sleep I just felt so weak and tired. I mean sure I had just done a combined 30 hour bus trip back to back but something felt definitely wrong as I gradually got worse and worse as the journey went on just willing the bus to hurry up and get there all ready. Arriving in the rain I put on my backpack and after heading in the wrong direction for a couple of minutes turned and headed towards the hostel. Every step felt like a hundred, my bag feeling ...

Our hostel room is great but it has got such noisy plumbing and a noisy heating system that I was woken up throughout the night by various bangs and hissing noises. We've also got bunk beds in the room and the top bunk, my bunk as I use the loo less in the night, is about 8 feet from the floor. It also doesn't have a ladder so to get into bed I had to do a daredevil manouver at the end of the beds to climb up, and I've always been a ...

... for Rita Hayworth in 1944, now a restaurant) for lunch and spectacular views (see photo). We saw a couple of red tail hawks, a golden eagle (we think), sea otters, sea lions, and harbor seals. After a quick drive through Carmel by the Sea, we spent the night in Monterey. Zoë has decided this is where she would like to live...somewhere between Carmel, Monterey and Santa Cruz so if anyone knows someone who needs house-sitting in this area, please call us. We decided to spend the next ...

... 9ct gold to give guests the feeling of diving into the midnight sky. The whole place evokes an age of crepe de chine tea dresses and silk satin dinner dresses, of impractical tennis attire and long horse treks ending in siilver and crystal furnished picnics - those were the houseparties Hearst threw, for heads of state, film and stage actors, anyone that caught his attentiion. Leaving a bygone world we made landfall for the night in Seaside outside Montery. Another Chinese meal in ...

... the steering head bearing, which the previous dealer was supposed to have done. It is far better now, but I won't know until I pack the bike up and get back out on the road. I also had to replace the chain and sprockets as they were quite worn and installed my new windshield which gives a major decrease in wind noise. What's next? After a few more days in the bay area, I'll head East via Nevada, Utah and Colorado. My target point is Boulder, CO.