Westin South Coast Plaza Costa Mesa

... t a problem. I've already located my new supermarket and gotten my "VonsCard" to save money on food. Later this week, I'll continue to explore so I can figure out where to get my hair cut, get my clothes laundered, and all those other fun things about a new home. Well, I hope you've enjoyed following me across the country. I know it's been fun for me to keep this diary of it, and to share it with you all. Stay in touch! Pete

... are taken care of. I haven't been into too many Korean households yet to inspect them myself so I'll have to give more info later. There aren't clothes dryers here so if you wash a load of sheets or comforters, I understand that they lay these on the floor to dry. Hhhmmm... hence cleaning the floors everyday. Well... even if I cleaned my floors every day, I'm still not going to lay my comforter or sheets on the floor to dry.

... for the rest of the day. Lots of fun here with the studio tour, special effects, house of horrors and Randall & Jaime both helped out in the special effects studio much to their delight. It might be a mere 27 years since I was here but still saw some of the same old favorites (Jaws, parting the waters) but thoroughly enjoyed the looks on the rest of the family's faces as well as the new attractions. Fairly puffed tonight ...

... in December. We Got back to Dilli and Picked up the passports from the Embassy again they did not give us the 60 days we asked for the robbing sods. It like the Indonesian Goverment really does not want to your Tourist Dollars. We booked our Bus to Kupang and Me,Mike and Stef hit the road through flores towards Bali. Overall a real experiance here in East timor the people are extreamly genuine and have the real flair about themselves maybe that is a throwback to the days ...

... almost every other American today wanted to rush home for one of the biggest TV events in the US, the Super Bowl. Stopping on the way back for some essential fried chicken and hot dogs, all part of the Super Bowl experience I was told, we were soon in front of a suitably large TV eating some more junk food watching the game while I tried to refrain from mentioning the words 'big girls' and 'rugby'.

... The tramps here ('homeless people/bums' for the American readers) especially are of a different breed altogether. Not in LA will you hear anyone say "Got any spare change?" in a barely audible mumble. Oh no. First you might hear a story involving dragons eating grandmas and hospital costs, or of jails and bus fares. Then there are 'The Performers' - tramps that have developed an interest in astrology, or a method of clicking and clapping ...

... city, but I'm not sure we had. The tall buildings were gone, and the traffic. But everywhere we looked we saw pipelines and irrigation ditches and orchards and fields and power plants and water treatment plants and shipping docks and railroad yards...all of this production there to serve the cities, all part of the system. Cities cannot exist without all of this outside support, all of these resources, coming into them from outside ...

... not included). This hotel was slightly larger than the other two and had some nicer amenities. The girls and I went swimming and luckily the water was semi-warm. It seems like most California pools are not heated. Later that night, I went out and got the girls McDonalds and I found a taco place for myself. We ate dinner in the room while we watching ...

... Anne Frank, artwork from Theresienstadt, actual bunk beds from the Majdanek concentration camp and Jewish religious items. including a pressed metal dreidel just like the one I had as a kid. It came from the Lodz ghetto. That one item, more than any other, grabbed me and linked me to my past. All the children who..............never........ In a state-of-the-art learning center are over 30 Apple interactive computer terminals with CD ROM databases designed for personalized ...