move towards change My room has been ruffled through, organized into 2 big black suitcases and one big blue bin. Sam from work is coming over in just a few hours (yes, I should be packing) and will help move what lil belongings I have into storage. Its a bit emotional to be in the face of an ending, but we all know what comes after the ending...a new beginning. And this I am embracing, and dedicating this blog to. Stay tuned for updates from the road. [View Full Entry]

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Hallo... ein letztes Mal, wir haetten uns keinen besseren Ort fuer den letzten Stopp dieser unglaublichen Reise aussuchen koennen als San Francinsco! Wir hatten ein wenig Bedenken, dass wir hier frustriert rumsitzen werden und nur auf unseren Flug zureuck nach hause warten werden, aber die letzten paar tage waren dann doch noch richtig aufregend und toll. Unser Hostel ist sehr zentral und hat viel damit zu tun, dass wir uns hier so wohl fuehlen. Und die Stadt ist einfach umwerfend. Untypischerweise fuer Amerika, kann man sie am einfachsten zu Fuss erobern und so haben wir die letzten tage vie [View Full Entry]

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We landed in san francisco late on friday evening and straight away got a good vibe from the place, it was totally different from new york, a lot more laid back and apart from the vast amounts of beggers, of which we encountered about 10 walking 3 blocks to our hostels, we found the place pretty sweet! We checked into our room, which thankfully was a lot bigger than new york, and got some much needed sleep. The next day we had a stroll around the city, walked through chinatown and up to pier 39 where san franciscos smelliest residents hang [View Full Entry]

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There are a ton of great things to see and do in San Francisco: Chinatown, Haight-Ashbury, Alcatraz. But one is a place I never even heard of until this past weekend. Across the Golden Gate Bridge on the north side of the bay is Mt. Tamalpais in Mt. Tamalpais State Park. According to a local I stayed with Mt. Tamalpais is the tallest mountain on the north side of the bay. There you can find great hiking and mountain biking trails as well as amazing views of the bay, San Francisco and Oakland. If you're staying in the city it's a [View Full Entry]

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After a hour long bus to DC airport, followed by a 5 1/2 hour flight we finally arrived in San Francisco. We took the bart subway to central and began our late night hostel hunt(Globetrotters Inn)! Ellis street was our destination and on proximity came across a ghetto, heading to the heart we realised we had gone to far and were not actually staying in this hell, what a relief. Found out that all the homeless hang out about 3 blocks away ready for the early morning soup kitchens!! After checking in we went to a local Diner 'Lori's', where we [View Full Entry]

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Well to get to San Francisco we decided to take the cheapest flight with SouthWest Airlines, as recommended by Julia. To get here the time that we wanted we decided to take the flight via San Diego! Crazy I know but it worked out for us. Until that is we landed in San Diego ran to get the connection flight and were advised that it was delayed due to bad weather for at least 2 hours! We were not fazed by this and thought that it was par for the course & we had been lucky so far! But some people [View Full Entry]

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Hallo allemaal, Ik heb eigenlijk te lang niets gepost, dus bij deze weer een nieuwe post! Ter verantwoording daarvoor kan ik slechts vermelden dat de studiedruk aardig is opgevoerd en ik de afgelopen week talloze presentaties heb gehouden en mogelijk nog meer papers heb geschreven. Zoals een aantal van jullie wellicht weten zijn mijn ouders onlangs ook in Californie aangekomen. Bijgevoegd een aantal foto's van onze korte doch doeltreffende roadtrip door ongerept Californie. Maar goed, eerst nog maar even een kort verslagje van mijn afgelopen weken in San Fransisco. De eeuwige dampe [View Full Entry]

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Impressions from San Francisco, CA. Oct 2009 [View Full Entry]

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This is my last day in the United States and I thought it appropriate to introduce you to my philosophy for this journey before I actually embark upon it. I have contemplated this trip for a while, and to me the approach my travel buddy Lauren and I are taking seems to be just right; particularly in dealing with traveling in a place like India. I'm going to call this approach, the "Happy Accidents" approach. "Happy accidents" in this context is in reference to one of my favorite musicians, Neko Case. It's a term she uses to describe one of the [View Full Entry]

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Well we arrived in Emmeryville on time, surprisingly, and got on our transfer coach to San Francisco with a very unfriendly coach driver who told us abruptly we needed to get off at Market Street as this was closest to our hostel. However due to the time zones our physic buttons had been turned off and we didn't realise he was just agreeing that this was the best place to get to to find our hostel, not that it meant he was dropping us off there!! luckily a lot of other people on the coach thought this too and kicked up [View Full Entry]

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