First session of the season — still suffering from it 🙂 The motel we stayed in, clean and convenient as it might be had a TV though that has us wonder at first whether it requires a crankshaft… To our surprise, it didn’t — and even more, it was a colour TV one too! Here […]
Posts Tagged: northern california
Shooting Range — 27/Oct/2013
I had to have a go at shooting a “proper” rifle too this time — I’m still trying to find the photo of the target at the end of the session, it’s somewhere in my phone, but I didn’t do too bad if I can say so myself 🙂
Vista Point – I280 – San Mateo
Ok, there are 2 Vista Points on I-280 next to the San Mateo exit I take when I go to work, and this is only one of them. Since I don’t really know how (and whether??) they are labelled or called, I’m gonna refer to this one as the first — purely as it is […]
Out and About Randomly in Los Gatos
Didn’t get any fish (yup, plenty in the lake), but love the 2 little islands: Â
Big Sur, California, 8-9/Sep/2012
Continuing the series of random travels through USA this weekend with Monterey Bay and Big Sur and the coast of Northern California: For those who have seen the movie “Forrest Gump“, you will be pleased to know that on the backend of that, “Bubba Gump Shrimp Co” was created — for real: Yup, I did […]
Labor Day 2012 : Eureka, College Cove & Crater Lake
Labor Day 2012, and the National Lampoon holiday to Portland, Oregon via Eureka started on the Friday before 🙂 Plan was very simple: drive to Eureka really early Friday, spend night there, drive next day to Portland and party it out there and gun it back to the Valley on Monday. Simple, right? Well… except […]
Out and About in One of the Parks in Cupertino This Weekend
Felt a bit like being in St James’s Park in London — minus the rainy weather 🙂
Spelling Lesson a la California :-)
Time to review my English writing skills it seems — either that or do some research on this new type of berry out there, probably only specific to Northern California I guess : STAWBERRY!!! (Related by any chance to STRAWBERRY I wonder, or just a simple coincidence? 😀 hmmmmm)