Day in LA Liz Toms You would think I wouldn't complain, being from Illinois, when the weather during March is in the upper 60's... (and I'm not really complaining) but we decided that due to the weather being a little colder than we'd like, we would go to Hollywood instead of the beach today, though we did stop in Santa Monica Beach for a few minutes to get our feet sandy before heading on inland. I've got to say, Rand McNally has been letting me down as far as directions go; I can read a map better than it can give me directions (we ended up in Malibu instead of the Getty Center). We were planning on going to the Getty Center first to get a glimpse of the entire city before heading on into ... read more

Stanford... I think I love thee North America » United States » California » Stanford By ilchicag March 20th 2007 Stanford Liz Toms After departing San Francisco, we rolled into the glorious, ever impressive campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, to visit the law school there. All I can say is... Wow. This place is incredible. I definitely can see myself going here. The campus, the program, the atmosphere, etc. all seem to work with me. Granted, I could say that about ... read more

California, here we come... ! North America » United States » California » San Francisco By ilchicag March 19th 2007 Drive to California Liz Toms Wow. Long day of driving, again. The trip to Cali did turn out to be about 12 hours, but the fact that I got pulled over in Nevada might have something to do with it (don't worry... I'm an expert at getting out of ~300 dollar fines). We left Provo early in the morning and got into San Fran a good way into the evening. The drive was (not... read more

It was so nice to get some sleep last night on a mattress, instead in a car. It's so nice here, between the mountains and the weather. Stopping in Provo was such a good call. We were going to go to Wendover to the casions (on the infamous (?) Le Bus... I don't know, everyone around here is pseudo-obsessed with it), but decided instead to stick around town to see Connie dance in Fiesta (BYU's Latin American cultural show). I wasn't too saddened; we are going to Vegas soon. After watching some college hoops (note my omission about a certain team that was up by 13 and then somehow destroyed themselves ... gahhhhhh!), we headed over to Fiesta. It was really intense. They went through all these cultural dances native to all the Latin and South ... read more

MEMPHIS! I love this place so much--and this time it's not snowing (though I still brought inappropriate shoes with no option for safer wear)! We got into town and checked into our West Memphis, Arkansas, Days Inn hotel (a real classy place) and then went straight to Beale Street. After finding parking and an ATM, I was in dire straits to get some catfish in me so, naturally, we headed a few blocks down to Alfred's. The catfish was amazing, and I got to see the Same Ol' 2 Step Band w/Lil' Guyland for a half hour or so. Although the band isn't the most energetic, there was the same little kid playing the squeeze box, which I'm impressed by. Maybe I'm just uneducated, but a six? seven? year old kid playing an accordion THAT well ... read more