Blogs from San Jose, California, United States, North America - page 5

Well, the Dunns are about to wrap up their excellent adventure out West. When we look back at our blogs, we can't believe all of the amazing places we've been! Overall, we voted that Wyoming was our favorite site - seeing state, but we all agreed that out of the nine states we drove across, we could see ourselves actually living in California. We've only had two little hiccups during our trip - losing our floor mat to the camper bus at Devils Tower Campground and washing my cell phone in the washing machine. The good news is that I bought a new cell phone in Palo Alto yesterday so I'm connected to the world again!! We did have one big hiccup yesterday - the trucking company that was supposed to come and pick up the ... read more

Howdy ya'll, First stop San Jose, we've taken a while to start our journal because, aside from our laziness, the last website sucked. So now we are here. Also, coming soon, a really cool map to look at of our trip... In the meanwhile, we hung out with the Nguyen family in San Jose for a week. After the 5 hour drive from LA to SJ with Binnie and Victor, we celebrated Memorial Day with a fat-ass BBQ with the family. We also celebrated Mylan's, Marc's younger sister's, birthday. After the festivities died down, we ventured out into the area. First, went with all the nieces and nephews to Happy Hollow Zoo (with Jon's military discount). A little rinky dinky, but still fun. Though, it does have an awesome Japanese Garden - Marc says - but ... read more

Well, this will prove to be a quite interesting flight. Sitting here in the wonderful San Jose Airport in California listening to screaming children who, while they are accompanied by adults, have absolutely no supervision. Do us all a favor, please place a luggage tag on them, run them through TSA screening and allow the parents to claim them when they reach their final destination. The parents don't care about what they are doing while in the airport, why would they care if the children flew down in the cargo compartment??? The quality of the passengers on this airline is scaring me even more in SJC. A rather attractive looking man sat down across from me.... Nice dress shirt, incredible dress pants (might consider asking him to give them to me....lol), nice shoes... but is wearing ... read more

24 hours til we leave for our 4-week trip and i still: ...am packing and uppacking, repacking, packing again, unpacking and repacking some more. i'm currently unpacked. ...have a week's worth a travel to plan in south india. ...need to buy mosquito repellant and travel toilet paper. ...have to pay an astonomical cell phone bill. please DO NOT call or text me AT ALL for the next four weeks people!!! ...do not know two words of thai nor hindi. i will be doing a lot of pointing. ...need a pedicure. Luv you all and will be in touch from Thailand! xoxo, alys jasmine... read more

It´s been far too long since my last blog entry. But for once we´ve been quite busy... Our first stop in the USA was L.A. We spent a couple of nights in a hostel in Venice. Venice Beach is a fun place with crazy people everywhere. Moreover it isn´t as posh and superficial as many other places in L.A. After the long flight from Sydney to L.A. we suffered from Jetlag. It was quite a funny experience. We woke up in the middle of the night, couldn´t fall asleep and were hungry at weird times. Due to our jetlag and Philipp´s cold we didn´t do much the first couple of days. Once we felt better, we rented bikes and rode them along the Pacific Coast. We saw some dolphins while chilling on Santa Monica Pier ... read more