The Hayes Mansion San Jose

... Boring it may be, but it was also delicious. The garlic bagel had a really nice toasted garlic flavour.

We then checked out the shops in Santa Cruz's "downtown". Nothing special there.... and just one row of shops. Something interesting did happen though... as Santa Cruz is pretty much a college town, there were some students campaigning for something or other, and they were displaying some T-shirts on a stick with their messages. Along the way, I saw this display and thought it was ...

... station.

Daughter's plans changed and Frank's car died so we were back to Plan A.

The purpose of the trip is to attend the first ever Newgrass Music Festival in Oakland, KY. To that end we have a large rolling equipment bag with festival items like folding chairs. After a few attempts I finally get the weight of the bag under the 50 pound limit so we can check it to Memphis. A little more arranging and ...

... 09 001 San Jose, CA 12:00AM 01/14/09 002 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 5:30 PM 01/15/09 003 At Sea 01/16 ...

... like I was set up to help him. Then it happened, a little unprepared I started tearing down the remnants of the old tortoise home and planning the new one. And Dan was ambitious so he wanted to create an elaborate home for the turtles. More work than I initially thought. I can take it. But the more we talked about it, the more I realized that he was talking about something that would take more than a day. I was still gonna ...

... I went instead to the bookstore in the airport and picked out a book. I debated for a long time between a new book and one that I've wanted to bring on my travels with me: "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's a book about a lady who travels solo to Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). I read it a few months ago and it really inspired and encouraged me to do all my travels... so I ...

T.I.A. On the first night we arrived at the volunteer home in Dar es Salaam, Blair and I, both new volunteers, met the current ones. After light conversations of whos, hows, and whys, we asked them about our orientation the next day. Instantly, a loud burst of laughter bellowed in unison, as Blair and I looked at each other confused. "What orientation?" one member says, "This is your orientation ...

... alotta lotta cows..... so we eventually arrived in SAN FRANCISCO and man i was excited about a few things alcatraz and clam chowder.... this was one place i had always wanted to visit and now we were there so, we found our motel and wow.... real beds, a tv, a bathroom to ourselves and it wasn't full of bunkbeds, it was marvelous! we trekked to the local train staion and got one down town to check san fran out and i imediatly fell in love with the place, it was fantastic! x x x

... a place where I don't even know what to expect?!" This scheme had been a long time coming. I'm a big travel freak, and one of the things on my big "THINGS TO DO" list is to travel for an extensive period of time. (That and burp the entire alphabet. Someday!...sigh...) But as I grew up, there was never a good time: no money, no time, and other equally good reasons. Last year, my college friends and I all ...

... we would have taken him home with us. As if that wasn't enough, they then insisted on driving us 25 minutes to the San Jose car office, to get our deposit back (our intention was to get the bus afterwards into San Francisco). We have swapped email addresses with them and will definitely keep in touch. In all, we spent the best part of three hours with them. We really didn't want to leave :o( As luck would have it, when we enquired at the ...

... table to view moonlight on the bay. which wasn't due to the heavy fog Which rolled in! order rack of lamb. Sunday, 5/11/97 MOTHER'S DAY We had an early breakfast in the Mikayla and saw two scullers & kayaks out on the fairly still waters of the bay. If we hadn't I planned to stop at La Cigale de Provence, Boulangerie et Pātisserie (1001 Bridgeway at Caledonia they have the best croissants across the street from the best Cappuccino at the Cafe' Trieste, 1000 Bridgeway. At 10 ...