Blogs from Oakland, California, United States, North America - page 4

Geo: 37.805, -122.273... read more

What's in Oakland? The Holy Land Restaurant, a little hole in the wall off Grand Ave., with great fresh pita bread, yellow lentil soup, hummus, falafel, Israeli salad (cucumbers, cabbage, dressing, etc.). Also Noah's Bagels, with pesto and roasted bell pepper bagels with jalapeno schmear. Besides the food, there's the company: Robin, my beautiful daughter. We played a notably short game of War, a game you can play and talk at the same time. I lost badly. One of Robin's roommates, Rashad, commenting on the bumper sticker on her car which declares, "War Is Not the Answer," said "That's not true! What if the question is, 'What sucks more than anything?' Then, 'war' is the answer." ... read more

The day after tomorrow we leave. Still plenty to do........and I decided to have a last minute bake sale to raise what ever funds we can. I know it sounds a little silly, a big medical trip 10 or so boxes of medicines, 200 ponds of supplies lots of other important donations and I am wanting to sell cookies to get every last bit of funds I can to take to Haiti. But that is how Sionfonds has grown. I do everything I can to raise funds and get other people involved too and every bit we do really does make a difference to the people we serve in Haiti. Most people in Haiti live on less than $1 a day, which puts that $1 I get for a cookie in to perspective. the movies doesn't ... read more

Hej alle! 24.07 Så er Bedstemor og Lene hjemme i Danmark igen. Vi (Hillerødderne) har nu besøgt Universal studios - en fin og underholdende tur. Det blev også til en tur i Hollywood og den obligatoriske tur på Hollywood Boulevard for at se de kendtes fod og fingeraftryk. Vi er nu i Oakland - tæt på San Francisco. Vi bor på Motel 6 et hyggeligt sted ved en bådhavn. Bådhavnen var også stedet hvor vi spiste aftensmad. En hyggelig Italiensk resturant hvor de til vores store overraskelse, serverede de rugbrød til maden. Det viste sig at ejeren var fra Østrig så dette var forklaringen. De næste to dage skal bruges i San Francisco downtown inden det går hjem til Danmark søndag. Dermed er det slut på en rigtig god ferie med mange gode og vidt forskellige ... read more

Woke up at 5:15, was at the front desk for the taxi by 5:45, discovered that the clueless night auditor was working again and she was just as useless when Polly came up to inform her that his Nintendo DS had been taken from the room. A half-hearted "will let you know if we find it" was all he got. The taxi ride was uneventful, except for the first time in 4 days we were in a car with 4 doors and leg room. Checked in at Oakland Airport only to find out that our flight was very delayed. It had not even taken off from Columbus yet. Anyway, got checked in, went thru security, staked out a couple of benches and Polly, Megan, and Gallaway went to sleep. Speck stayed up and read a book, ... read more