Cali Trip Part 1
Well, I’m back in school after 6 moths in Peru and a month bumming around California. Its nice to be back workin’ and schoolin’ again, after the trip I’m all traveled out for a while. I’d formally like to thank Tony, Megan, Ari, The Parents, Matt, Kyle, Ari, Josh, and John for giving me a place to crash on the trip.
More or less the trip started with me arriving in San Francisco and waiting at Meghan’s place (I finally got to REALLY meet her girlfriend… I approve) for Anjie to arrive. She did, at 1 am, and I went to pick her up at the airport. After driving around for an 10 minutes trying to find her, I discovered that I was at the wrong air for, SFO instead of OAK. 30 minute later Anjie and I were headed back to Meghan’s apartment to sleep. Not a very good start to things, but at least the next morning we got a lovely walk along the beach.
We headed up to Sonora for Xmas. Anjie held up very well to meeting The Family, and The Family were very well behaved. Except for one incidence involving a statue and a mask, for which my mother should be ashamed of. And Josh for egging her on. As always, it was good to see The Extended Family, and unlike the Mother, they were all super nice to Anjie. I had a blast, and so did Anjie… here she is decorating The Parents Xmas tree and next to the snow cat we constructed.
After Xmas was over, The Parents, Anjie, and I headed down to San Francisco where Matt was kind enough to set us up with cut rate rooms in the lovely San Remo hotel in North Beach. We wandered about the city with The Parents, museum a bit, and spent the evenings playing Spite-and-Malice. But the highlight for me, happened when we ran across the Happy Happy Happy man in China town.
A real turtle on a fake turtle
Anjie makes some new friends
Matt hard at work
We had planned to spend a few days with Kyle and Ryan in Santa Cruz, but Kyle had an unexpected emergency, so Anjie and I had to change our plans rather quickly. Luck was on out side, Matt gave us another night at his hotel and I managed to find us a sot in a hostel beneath a lighthouse on the coast. We spent the next two days exploring my old stomping grounds: the coast between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. We wandered on the beaches and in forests, and I re-introduced Anjie to salamanders and banana slugs.
Our light house hostel
Anjie and her first impression of a newt
The graffiti on the bathroom wall a good ol’ Pergalessi’s
Sunset over Capatola... it is tough to see, but Anjie is chasing birds.
On the 1st I dropped Anjie of early in the morning at SFO for her trip back to China. After that the trip got a little weird…
More or less the trip started with me arriving in San Francisco and waiting at Meghan’s place (I finally got to REALLY meet her girlfriend… I approve) for Anjie to arrive. She did, at 1 am, and I went to pick her up at the airport. After driving around for an 10 minutes trying to find her, I discovered that I was at the wrong air for, SFO instead of OAK. 30 minute later Anjie and I were headed back to Meghan’s apartment to sleep. Not a very good start to things, but at least the next morning we got a lovely walk along the beach.
We headed up to Sonora for Xmas. Anjie held up very well to meeting The Family, and The Family were very well behaved. Except for one incidence involving a statue and a mask, for which my mother should be ashamed of. And Josh for egging her on. As always, it was good to see The Extended Family, and unlike the Mother, they were all super nice to Anjie. I had a blast, and so did Anjie… here she is decorating The Parents Xmas tree and next to the snow cat we constructed.
After Xmas was over, The Parents, Anjie, and I headed down to San Francisco where Matt was kind enough to set us up with cut rate rooms in the lovely San Remo hotel in North Beach. We wandered about the city with The Parents, museum a bit, and spent the evenings playing Spite-and-Malice. But the highlight for me, happened when we ran across the Happy Happy Happy man in China town.
A real turtle on a fake turtle
Anjie makes some new friends
Matt hard at work
We had planned to spend a few days with Kyle and Ryan in Santa Cruz, but Kyle had an unexpected emergency, so Anjie and I had to change our plans rather quickly. Luck was on out side, Matt gave us another night at his hotel and I managed to find us a sot in a hostel beneath a lighthouse on the coast. We spent the next two days exploring my old stomping grounds: the coast between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. We wandered on the beaches and in forests, and I re-introduced Anjie to salamanders and banana slugs.
Our light house hostel
Anjie and her first impression of a newt
The graffiti on the bathroom wall a good ol’ Pergalessi’s
Sunset over Capatola... it is tough to see, but Anjie is chasing birds.
On the 1st I dropped Anjie of early in the morning at SFO for her trip back to China. After that the trip got a little weird…