Blogs from San Jose, California, United States, North America

Quand j'étais venue il y a quelques années, je n'avais pas pensé sortir de SF, car il y a tant de choses à voir et à faire. Mais ce voyage est différent. Donc pourquoi ne pas aller virer en train de banlieu pendant 2h pour voir du pays?!?! Je suis allée au musée de San José. Une chose qui a été comme d'habitude: les trouvailles incroyables des boutiques souvenirs de musées! J'ai acheté une tuque avec une lumière intégrée. Hi hi Juste en sortant du musée, il y a une super boulangerie. Ils font des croissants avec des garnitures, il y avait aux champignons mais j'ai pris celui aux épinards. Miam. Je voulais aussi passer au petit musée d'artistes latinos local. Il y avait 5 artistes en vedette ce jour-là. À cause des congés des fêtes, ... read more

A big day ahead from kids playing to getting to go to a San Jose Sharks game at night, we had to get started early. The kids played well in the morning with all the new toys, and Susie made us a delicious full breakfast. Steve, Tory, Susie, and the kids then left for Golfland and the mall to get Rosie hand prints on tile to place at the Wildwood lake house. Mini-golf was super fun for the kids, as Nathan ran ahead every hole to see where to hit the balls, and Rosie liked the different shapes and sizes of the golf course holes and running up and down them. Overall it was a success, especially if you can avoid kids hitting anyone in the chin or face with the backswing of a putter, not ... read more

My wife and I had been to San Francisco before and last time we almost missed the flight due to some horrendous traffic jams on the M25; horrendous even by M25 standards. In fact we would have missed it if it had not been delayed by two hours. Given that that was probably one of the most stressful moments of my life, we left excessively early for the airport. Even so, there was no need to drag ourselves out of bed at some unsociable hour for a change as our flight was not until 3.20 in the afternoon. That was also helped by the fact that we had booked the short-stay carpark for little more than it would have cost for long-stay, so there was no need to worry about transfer buses or the risk that ... read more

Het is hier nu net vijf uur s'middags geweest, we zijn net aangekomen op de laatste plek waar we met de camper gaan overnachten. Zoals wel vaker zijn de plaatjes niet helemaal overeenkomstig met de werkelijkheid. De belangrijkste twee redenen om hier te gaan staan zijn de aanwezigheid van het enorme zwembad, tenminste zoals het met groothoeklens professioneel is gefotografeerd en je vooraf al weet dat er in werkelijkheid misschien een-tiende van overblijft. Daarom zijn die foto's ook altijd zonder mensen, zet een full size amerikaan in dit zwembad en dan past er nog net een welwillende kleuter bij...Helaas is het hele zwembad, zo klein als het is, gewoon GESLOTEN. Daarmee is de eerste reden om hier te staan volledig weggevaagd, na een driftaanvalletje van mij mochten we ons geld terug maar Frits heeft er geen ... read more

I returned to California to attend my sister Jennifer’s graduation ceremony. Jennifer was there for me in both my bachelor’s graduation in computer science and my law school graduation and that made a great impression on me because she traveled so far. So I couldn’t resist coming back from Asia to attend her graduation. I have included pictures of Jennifer's ceremony and other activities during the visit. Jennifer got her master's degree in therapy. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology. Jennifer has been studying transformation in one way or the other for about 35 years. My family in general has had an interest in transformational arts since the 1980s when we all took the EST training. Jen has also been involved in many other transformational technologies over the years to help her family and friends. ... read more