Sanctuary Los Gatos

... After a 3 week stay we have to leave that particular campground for 7 days prior to coming back.

Well, our 3 weeks in Manteca had come to an end. Fortunately TTN operates several other campgrounds in the Bay Area. Our choices for a new homesite included Yuba City, Marysville, Cloverdale, Hollister and Morgan Hill. We've spent time in all of these places but it had been years since ...

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!

... Trekking in the Patagonian Andes)
Journal
Pens (4)
Carabiners (4)
Sunglasses w/bag
Eyeglasses w/ case
First aid kit
Timex watch
Flip flops
Rubber bands (4)
Reading book ("To the Lighthouse", Virginia Woolf)
Passport
Flight itineraries

I hope I didn't forget anything...;P

I've scheduled a Super Shuttle ride to SFO, and they're coming around noon. First I'll fly to Dallas, then Santiago.

... fra en donuts siddende på skjorten. Dog lider visse personer stadigvæk af jetlag, hvilket resultere i, at da klokken var 9 var Keen morgen klar og ville da lige ringe hjem til familien via Skype. Altid dejligt at hører børnestemmer så tidligt om morgen !!!!! Vi vælger at indtage vores morgenmad/frokost omkring det berømte område Pier 39, hvor man har udsigt til Alcatraz samt kan hører på søløverne som ...

... days of the celebration (February 19 and 20, 2007), calypso and soca blare from trucks, while stilt dancers lope alongside and masquerade, or mas, bands dance in skimpy, colorful costumes. The procession culminates at the Queen's Park Savannah, where everybody "playing mas" dances. Visittnt.com lists fetes and mas bands you can join. The Hilton Trinidad, on a hill above ...

... maybe visit one of the city's many museums or galleries and this evening enjoy the colourful Florentine nightlife. [I bought a leather belt last time I was here. It lasted pretty long. Maybe this trip I'll go to the Museum where the "real" David is (the David in the public square is a copy). Pretty quiet in the city center ... streets aren't very wide at all, so they limit traffic greatly. Night life and dancing was _crazy_ ...

After a long day at work, struggling to get things in order during our week off, we headed home, sat down to a quick dinner...and then got a call from Jet Blue, telling us that they were cancelling our flight to Fort Lauderdale later that night! We were being affected by the horrible weather conditions in the northeast and ...

... s agreement to hire some wetsuits and surfboards one day this week before I head off at the weekend. Ended up singng "I'm a believer" to a fairly indifferent crowd before heading back via some nasty takeaway. Got propositioned by some bloke and had to explain I wasn't (and still am not!) that way inclined. I had until this point forgotten that San Francisco is Manchester's long lost cousin... Stumbled back into the hostel at about 1am.

... tell the rest of the story. From there, we headed straight east, to see the East Cape of NZ, it's easternmost point. We went through Art Deco Napier, and drury Gisborne, and up onto the Cape. We took a very long detour out gravel roads to see Lake Waikeramoana, in terrible weather. The East Cape is nearly all Maori, and very run-down. It used to hold several vibrant port towns, but trade has diminished, and now most people do a variety of odd jobs to sustain their ...

... about tangible things and I replied that the investment sits upon my two shoulders. The drive was okay. I sure didn't miss the horrific traffic as Bay Areaites piled into their cars and headed for the mountains for a little R&R. We've been making the drive up to Tahoe since I was a child...so it's sort of like a second home for me. My father stressed his heart out at the wheel (I have finally figured out at the age of 27 where I get my dramatics from) over the traffic and how late we ...