Blogs from Pacifica, San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Yesterday I read a book named "弃业， 出去走一走“. It is about a girl in Taiwan quit her successful marketing career to travel around Taiwan. She spent most of her time visiting organic farms and learning the various difficulties that farmers encountered in their mission to be organic and healthy. She met a lot of cool and nice people in her journey, but also some uncool ones. She was able to go back to basic and enjoy life. Through this journey, she was able to break the cycle of "Home-Work-Home-Work-Home-Work..... -Death". First of all, this book helped me to put a name to what I am going to do tomorrow. Secondly, there are plenty of "crazy" people out there like me. = ) I shared many of her sentiments about getting back to basic and really appreciate ... read more

Sunday 27th November We left NZ at 15.15pm on Sunday 27th Nov and arrived in LA at 6.30am on Sunday 27th November!! We had allowed 5hrs ( as per internet advice!) to get through customs, collect baggage and get to the next terminal to check in again for our flight to San Francisco. I suppose it took about 2hrs so we had a 3hr wait in Terminal 5 for our 11.15am flight to Oakland. We all boarded the plane (50 seater!) and 15mins later we all disembarked due to mechanical problems! They were unsure at first whether the plane would be fixed and/or if another flight would be put on, but eventually they announced there would be a flight leaving at 13.30. Arrived in San Francisco about 15.00 ish and then took the bus to the ... read more

Here we are in beautiful San Francisco. Parked on a 60 foot cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The place we are staying is a glorified parking lot with a club house and a swimming pool. Last night I took a walk around the cliff and talked to some of the travelers. Wow some of the trailers and moterhomes are huge and expensive. But all in all the people are all the same. Warm and friendly. Talked to a couple from Texas, going to Reno for some car show. They live in their RV full time. It is 34ft long 5th wheel. Nice.....anyway back to our trip. We spent 3 days in Garberville, with Jason and his two boys, Ryan and Jaden. Had a great time. Swimming in the pool and taking little trips to the Redwoods. ... read more

Feeling the need to hang out with the hippies and pot smokers, headed off to Haight n Ashbury to get my groove on. There was no much to see in the area, as it is mainly shops. Though there were some cool little boutique stores among a few hippie shops spread out down the street. The clock next to the famous Haight, Ashbury street signs is permantly stuck on 4.20, which stopped at some time during the 60's or 70's. 4.20 has now become the international time to smoke pot, on april 20th.. which is now international pot smoking day. After wandering the streets with the hippies, i then went and hung out with the gay folk in the castro area, tho was scared off by a random guy casually sitting with his mates having a ... read more

On leaving San Franciso at the tail-end of a coast-to-coast USA road-trip three years ago, I promised to come back in the future. So here it is. The start of a new 4 week itinery, beginning (yeah!!!) and ending (nooo!) at the Golden Gate and taking in parts of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. First up, 4 days in San Francisco, checking out the Golden Gate park, Chinatown, Union Square, Japanese Tea Garden, Haight-Ashbury and Fisherman's Wharf before picking up the van and heading out to the open road. Let's Go!!... read more

Well guys, here goes...I'm in San Francisco right now after a 4 hour flight from Chicago. I'm telling you, no joke, I sat next to a Buddhist monk the entire flight to Cali! Good omen? I think yes. I spent the night in the airport as the plane landed at around 12:30 Pacific time...so around 3am our time. Can I just tell you that I'm a hot mess right now? HOT MESS. My hair has been washed in an airport bathroom, and my B.O. is for sure a force to be reckoned with. Regardless, I'm sure I'll be fine. I'll be posting pictures as soon as I can. Love you all. ... read more

San Francisco was a wonderful stop. It is a beautiful old city and the people here are very friendly and helpful to visitors. We arrived and were set up by about 1:30 or 2:00 so set out on our first adventure downtown and to have dinner in China Town. We found out we are not very mass transit oriented. First problem being we left our Bart instructions from the RV park in our car. No problem, we can figure it out, ha. Actually we did figure the ticket machine and which train to take OK, it was getting off that presented the problem. We found a friendly native who told us to get off at Powell St., thank you nice person. First 6 stops the station name was on the left, 7th stop, no name hmmmm. ... read more