Blogs from California, United States, North America - page 1006

San Francisco Sojourn After Australia, we decided to go home to California for a few months…for the holidays (we missed the 2005 holidays b/c of traveling), my dad’s 70th birthday, to see other family and friends and to just generally re-group (It’s tough work visiting non-stop wineries! As many joked, “We needed - a vacation from the vacation!”) We made our home in San Francisco with our close friend, Jackie. “Made our home” is probably more accurately described as “Booted Jackie out, changed the locks, adopted her place as our own and then proceeded to invite Jackie over as a guest!” hehe…Joking aside, we couldn’t have asked for a better hostess! We lived in the Marina neighborhood of SF, a great spot -- beginning with the gorgeous view of the Golden Gate Bridge. As expected, ... read more

Check out the video. Today I woke up feeling refreshed after actually sleeping well last night! We went out first thing to find the house where I used to live- we drove straight past it at first as I remembered it being bigger. It was weird to see the house again, and the school where I attended kindergarten. I couldn't find the pre-school I went to though, which was disappointing. The centre of Livermore has changed lots, so I had no chance of recognising anything there! At around midday we headed for Richmond, and to Larry's boat, and from there headed out for a sail on the bay. It was amazing. We sailed up to Angel Island, and then around Alcatraz. Although the sky was very hazy, we could see the city outline, and both the ... read more

UntitledSan Fransisco was a pretty cool place. Not really mutch to say about it though. We had a shocker of a hostel whitch was more like a crack house or a house for recovering addicts than a youth hostel!! We checked out China Town, Pier 39, Fisherman´s Wharf and Golden Gate Bridge. It was bloody cold tho so the bridge was a mission and too foggy to see mutch. Had some great clam chowder on Fisherman´s Wharf and visited this chocolate shop that had more different kinds of chocolate and chocolate related things than either of us had ever seen!! Like LA it would be better in summer I think...... read more

Seufer6: Destination: Lake Tahoe Monday, January 22, 2007 We drove here from San Francisco to get here yesterday. It took us about 3 hours to get to our final destination for this leg of our trip. We are staying in a nice house that has plenty of room for all of us, so it will be nice to spread out a little bit more than we have been. Our house is on Winding Creek Rd. and we will call it home for the week. Today we woke up, did school work and got all caught up in spelling (2 lessons), math 2 pages, and well almost science! My dad, Emma, and Lilly went to Squaw Valley and Tahoe City to check things out so we could concentrate. When they got back dad told us we were ... read more

Well things are still going well over here, work is still fun and is getting better as we all get to know each other. The weather is still troubling though, it was FREEEEZING at the start of the week, one day it never rose above around -12c and it was sunny the whole day, in the morning it was around -30c with no wind chill! Pretty much if we left our water/anything liquid outside for long it froze. Needless to say we spent most of the day huddled in the warmish huts at the top and bottom of the lifts. Now though it is unseasonly warm again and there doesnt appear to be any snow on the way which could become a problem as all our existing snow may melt away, which could once again leave ... read more