Sierra Suites Hotel - San Jose

... 9:00 AM 6:00 PM<br>12/17/09 033 Boca Da Valeria, Brazil 7:00 AM 2:00 PM <br>12/18/09 034 ...

... head south thru the Panama Canal to South America. But we don't want to skip the season and all of the holidays that are coming up: our son's birthday, Christmas, our sister-in-law's birthday, New Year's, our 36th Wedding Anniversary, our nephew's birthday, and our uncle's birthday. A lot of excitement between now and cruise date. Harriet is making a list and checking it twice. She also has started packing our suitcases. That means if ...

... We had an audio tour which was really interesting as they had real inmates and warders talking about their impressions and memories. The only off putting bit was a plague of flies everywhere. We seem to be getting around SF pretty well and haven't got lost yet.........It's deceptively sunny here, it gets quite alot of mist, especially near the bridges ...

... the issues we addressed (it was a small group of 8 of us) and wanted to reason back into the system. He's running against someone who has sunk into the repitition of the routine and has failed to come through for the community. It's funny, we even talked about how the national process really affects the system on the local level, less money for schools, youth, new initiatives because of the lack of money coming down from the federal level, being diverted to foreign ...

... Anschlussbus gewartet. Nach 15 Minuten hamm wir dann gemerkt das der Bus heute gar nicht faehrt... :) Also sind wir zu fuss nach Hause gelaufen... Im Hotel angekommen wollten wir noch ne Abholung organisieren, aber das airport Shuttle wollte 97 Dollar und so hamm wir uns dagegen entschieden. Im Zimmer angekommen mussten wir noch packen. Die Koffer waren auf einmal irgendwie kleiner geworden... *g*

... rank it a second behind Perth if you're interested! We decided to continue the high life and took a drive out to the Napa Valley wine region. I hired a bike and Russ jumped on his new best friend and we toured round the vineyards. We stopped at 5 in total and only ended up spending $15 on tastings, bearing in mind it costs $5 per taste per vineyard this was pretty good. We managed to blag it by using coupons from the visitors centre and spinning a sob story ...

... headed back to San Fran. Sally thought it might be fun to bop over and take Hwy 1 into the city, which it was, but it took over three hours....long long miles of winding hilly road. We had some amazing drives through huge stands of eucalyptus (no sore throats around here!)and enjoyed the beauty of the ocean as the sun set. I got some great shots as we drove, though it was hard to give up control and let Sally drive. We opted not to drive through SF, and cut across to the ...

... the return of Jono and Jeanette I bought a soda at a mobile kiosk at the lookout on the other side of the bridge and sat on the stone fence watching an endless parade of tourist busses disgorge their usually Asian contents. On the return journey we visited Sausalito, a Castlecrag sort of place with lots of yachts and trendy shops. I bought a couple of cards and a real cheap ($9) pipe. After a very late lunch I set off alone for Healdsburg town to buy some aftershave. I must have ...

Was up at the crack of dawn had breakfast and a really good shower and waited for Allen to come pick me up at 10am, it was good to see him again and we had a lot of catching up to do as he drove back to his house in San Jose then we went to this little restaurant just out of San Jose which was very nice then we went to a computer store looked at ...