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Lady of Oysters and Beer
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Last weekend I went on two great day trips. One trip focused on oysters, the other on beer. I have a pretty great life these days :).
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Lady and the Chocolate Factory
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Today I went to Berkeley to tour the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Factory. I had passed by the factory a few times before, and my combined love of chocolate and interest in how it's made prompted the visit.
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Lady to Breakers
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
This week's adventure took me home to California, and I couldn't have picked a better time to visit. The weather was hitting record highs in SF just as the London heat wave succumbed to the London rain. As if that weren't reason enough to be excited, there were two special events in the city over the weekend: Oyster Fest and Bay to Breakers. The latter is my boyfriend's favorite holiday ("it's like Christmas and New Year's combined," he says), so I knew I was in for a good time.
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Lady of the Land
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Every year on my birthday my aunt and uncle send me a card. This year they sent one with a black and white photograph of rolling hills dotted with giant oak trees. Without having to read the description, I knew that the picture was of California. It made me homesick.Being back in California this week made me want to see some of that beautiful land outside of San Francisco. Yesterday my boyfriend and I drove across the Golden Gate bridge and headed up to wine country to take in the scenery and taste some of our state's famous Pinot Noirs.
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Lady in Silcon Valley
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
On Monday I started a new job in London. On Tuesday I hopped on a plane to San Francisco for three weeks of job training at company headquarters. Ironically, the company I'm working for is headquartered in Silicon Valley about three blocks away from my high school. My life has a funny way of bringing me back to California.So far I have spent the entire week in the Valley, which is something I haven't done since college. It's strange to be back in the area where I grew up. After living in London for a year and a half, I'm seeing things from a completely new perspective.
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Lady in Silicon Valley
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
I grew up in Silicon Valley. Intel, Cisco, and Oracle were household names in my town not just because everyone used their products, but because everyone's parents were employed by them. As a kid I didn't realize how unique my home was; I thought everyone's parents—except for mine, of course—became paper millionaires overnight and every household had at least three computers by 1986. And while I was stuck driving a 1992 Dodge Caravan to school every morning, most of my classmates were embarrassed that their BMWs were only 3 series. It was, as we came to call it, a bubble.
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iPhone: The Backpacker's Best Friend?
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 5 November 2009
How much technology do you need with you when you go on a backpacking trip in the wilderness? Or, perhaps more to the point, how much do you actually want with you?My general rule with packing for a backpacking trip is to bring as little as possible, and only as much as you're willing to carry. When a friend brought his iPhone on a recent backpacking trip, I scoffed at the idea. Why on earth would you want to bring that confounded device into the wilderness? There won't be any signal, and you certainly can't pound in a tent stake with it.
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Travelogue: Burning Man to Hemet, CA
Blog: Tales from Technomadia - 24 October 2009
Time Period: September 6 – October 24 Miles Driven: 1179 (not including non-RV trips) Post Burning Man we only had one specific goal – to make it to Hemet, CA for much needed down time. We had met some folks in the area during our travels earlier in the year that we only had the opportunity to visit [...]
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The Business End
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 9 October 2009
I’ve only been upgraded to international Business Class on two occasions.
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In Bigfoot's Living Room
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 1 October 2009
She frowned and almost spat when she spoke; clearly I had inadvertently wandered into sensitive territory, and she was probably tired of the question. How could I not ask? All available space on the restaurant walls was covered in cast iron pans with people's names neatly painted in red and white; there was a sign over a doorway that declared this to be the world's largest privately owned collection of cast iron cookware. One pan proudly held the name of Doug McConnell, host of TV's Bay Area Backroads.
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Tweeting in the USA
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 1 October 2009
Glancing over the output of my Twitter feed for the past few weeks, I realised that, if I reversed the order of tweets, I’d have a neat microblog of my entire S
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SeaWorld, San Diego: 5 Family Favorites
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 23 September 2009
On a recent trip to San Diego, my extended family and I visited SeaWorld San Diego as their guests. We spent over nine hours tromping around the park, stopping only when the sun went down and we became chilled in our whale-water soaked clothing.
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Getting back in the flow
Blog: Adventures in Hedonism - 19 September 2009
A blink and the week was gone. 6 nights camped under the stars on the coast of Marin County in Northern California. I spent my days cooking for 55 people in our make-shift kitchen. Two picnic tables and the propane burners along with the BBQ pit would be the tools of the trade. Three heavy plastic tubs carried pots and pans, A tackle box had been reapropriated as a 'Utensil Kit', full of
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Airstreams and Moon Germs
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 14 September 2009
With all of the news coverage of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in the past few months, I was surprised to see almost no mention of the San Francisco Bay Area's connection to this historic event mentioned in the local papers. Only a few people I talked to knew of the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, and even fewer knew that the Hornet was the ship that recovered the astronauts from the Apollo 11 & 12 missions after splashdown.
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Wine Steals in San Diego
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 9 September 2009
If you know me at all you know I loves me a good glass of wine. I’ll even take a mediocre glass of wine or a bad glass of wine. I mean, there’s only been one glass of wine I have refused so far, and that’s because it kind of tasted like blood…anyway… At Wine Steals, [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Just Had a Great Family Vacation? Super! Just Don’t Go Back
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 9 September 2009
As an 11-year-old kid of the Great Plains, I became a trip-planner during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
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SoCal Restaurant Roundup
Blog: An American in London - 1 September 2009
I’m back in London after spending five days in La Jolla, California, which included quick trips to LA and the ‘burbs of Orange County. I couldn’t get enough of the sunshine and wide, sandy beaches of SoCal, but sadly, my year-old Canon Elph drowned in seawater during a kayak outing off the coast of [...]
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Yosemite without the Crowds
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 1 September 2009
Here's a confession that's likely to earn me a few rude comments (if not outright death threats): I don't like Yosemite.
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Death Valley - Artist's Drive
Blog: of heliotropes and silver strings - 30 August 2009
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Saturday Guest Post: Comic Con in San Diego
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 29 August 2009
Submitted by: Jessica Goebel Denver, Colorado Though San Diego is more often noted for its world-class zoo and scenic beaches, the city also plays host to one of pop culture’s weirdest, wildest events: Comic-Con. What started in the 70s with a modest gathering of comic book fans has ballooned into a colossal affair attracting proud geeks from [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Tacos Por Favor, Santa Monica, CA
Blog: An American in London - 28 August 2009
Jon and I are in SoCal right now, and although I’m an East Coast girl, I must confess I’m enjoying the sea and sun around these parts. And I’ve definitely been loving all the great Cal-Mex food. Our fave Mexican fix so far has been at the divey Tacos Por Favor, which is just a dozen [...]
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Death Valley - Devil's Golf Course
Blog: of heliotropes and silver strings - 28 August 2009
I, for one, had no idea the devil played golf. It does seem fitting though.
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Death Valley - Ubehebe Crater
Blog: of heliotropes and silver strings - 23 August 2009
Ubehebe Crater
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Death Valley - Scotty's Castle
Blog: of heliotropes and silver strings - 20 August 2009
