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The next morning (the 26th) I got up and started heading north with the idea of checking out oyster places in Tomales Bay. Crossed the golden gate bridge, pretty interesting foggy coastland in the morning, the environment looked rather similar to the first farm I visited in socal between escondido and temecula. Temp may be a bit cooler but not by too much, which is a bit surprising since the difference is roughly 475 miles north. Found a place selling oysters, bought a few - more expensive than I was expecting so I took it easy on that, chatted with the guy and left - headed east towards Petaluma then I made arrangements with the next farm as to time I'd show up in Nevada City. First, I headed to Sacramento and looked for interesting places ... read more

This is mostly a picture blog, I'll let the pictures do most of the talking. They're all from the 24th - started off going west from Paso Robles, went to Castoro winery, talked to the wine pourer, guy around my age from Ireland, had a few interesting things to say. After that I just drove north along highway 1, took lots of pictures and enjoyed the scenery. That night I ate at Crystal Fish (I saw it had 5 stars on google - was definitely good quality, offered real wasabi, first I've seen that) in Monterey then stayed in a hostel there. ... read more

This is for 17th-19th. On Saturday we all got up and went to a local restaurant near the beach. Fish tacos apparently is the big signature food around here, I went with that. I agree with JK's philosophy that it pays to do the best with what you have available but not in a worrisome way - was good. Also got an Acai fruit smoothie, only my 2nd time or so having that. After that, stopped by a little farmer's market grocery store, picked up some vegetables, fruit, steaks and turkey legs for me. We spent the next couple hours cleaning up the house - floors were all sticky from the beerfest friday night. After that we had the cookout. Later we sort of watched beerfest but everyone dozed off, we all took a little nap, ... read more

I started out off on Wednesday morning after a full day of packing, drove for around 11 hours - 12 hour total trip with some short breaks. There was nothing particularly interesting though the environment wasn't as plain as that of north Texas and SE Colorado (I recently drove to Denver, from Houston). Rolling pastures around Schulenberg, mesas and hills, drier land past San Antonio. Stayed in El Paso for the night. A fuse blew out for my cigar lighter so I learned how to fix that. Day 2, I took off west again, got to Phoenix in the afternoon, finally met my friend Andrei - we had been talking online for about 4 years and we ate several pounds of cheap sushi. We hung out at ASU campus..talked to girls, tried to get into buildings ... read more