Month: August 2007

I remember now why I do this… Originally uploaded by gewekean Where the streets truly have no name… (U2 wrote The Joshua Tree — to this day, one of my favorite albums ever — while staying in Twentynine Palms, which is about twenty miles back now. Staying out here, you can truly understand why it…

What I woke up to this morning… Originally uploaded by gewekean

Southern California definitely does have its charms… (Just to be clear, I mean the beach in general, not specific people — it’s so bright out here I can’t even really see what I took a picture of…) Originally uploaded by gewekeanCarpinteria State Beach.

Guess what it did last night? Originally uploaded by gewekean To my amazement, it *rained*. In Southern California. In August. Incredibly unusual, in my understanding. We’ll see what the beach is like today, or if the top can come down…

Memories of the first day: Being barely awake and needing caffeine badly (5:00 AM on a Saturday, madness!) — but having the wind in my hair and the sun coming up over the East Bay hills as I drove across the Bay Bridge. All was right with the world. Discovering the little doughnut shop in…

Oh, yum. Just….yum. Originally uploaded by gewekean Mile: 168.2. More later.

Why unexpected detours are great… Originally uploaded by gewekean Less than 10 miles from the heart of Silicon Valley, you get this… Mile: 143.9

The drive from the coast back through the hills and redwoods to Palo Alto was beautiful. This is exactly why I love going on trips like this — it’s always the little, unexpected, unplanned things that astonish and amaze you. Going to see, say, Big Sur is one thing, and Big Sur truly is incredible.…

Well, this isn’t exactly where I expected to be. I’m at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, rather than much farther down the coast. As I was driving along this morning, my iPhone completely died. Yesterday I’d noticed it doing this a couple of times — it would suddenly “fuzz out” with green video artifacts…