Today we had lunch with our friend Jeanne Carley, the wonderful photographer who creates the best ferret calendar. We’ve seen her a number of times at ferret symposiums, where she talks about her experiences getting the ferrets to pose for her photos; she’s amazing. It’s been a while, so it was delightful to catch up […]
Tied House
After all that book browsing, Bill and I walked around Mountain View and gravitated to the Tied House, home of some wonderful hoppy brews. Fortunately they have a good selection, since their Hoptopia was “out”. Brew houses seem to run out of the good stuff as we approach. But their Athenum was a hoppy delight. […]
Music on a Sunny Day
On Sunday I went to see my friend Betty and her Sadza Marimba Band play for the benefit of the Zimbabwe Run for Orphans in Mountain View, CA. It was a wonderfully sunny day, although a bit windy. Their music is so lively and joyful it makes you want to sing and dance! Check out […]
Rock Bottom
We hit Rock Bottom after the weird stuff, a wonderful restaurant and brewery in Campbell. We were in luck, their IPA was available, delicious! And a very nice Fire Chief Ale that we both enjoyed. I had two favorites: Caesar Salad and macaroni & cheese. Bill had chili and wings. All very satisfying. We are […]
Weird Stuff
Helen and books, Bill and weird stuff, hand and glove. We set our GPS to the Weird Stuff address and off we went. It’s in the middle of a rather nice industrial park, which on the weekends is dead, except for the crowd at Weird Stuff. It’s a cavernous place full of old computer parts, electric […]
Thirsty Bear
After all the walking around, we were hungry and thirsty. Perfect combination for the Thirsty Bear on Howard St. We had been there years ago and enjoyed it, so we headed in that direction. It was busy, but not yet filled with the after-work crowd. We checked the list of tap beers and of course […]
City Lights
We took the BART into San Francisco yesterday. It took about 45 minutes and dropped us into the center of things, Montgomery St. We just started walking, which took us through Chinatown. By chance we ended up taking Grant Ave. to Columbus, right into City Lights Bookstore. This is the kind of bookstore that reminds […]
San Francisco… sort of
We arrived at SFO last night around 9:30pm, PDT, and drove to our hotel in Fremont, CA. It was a long day of driving from Franklin to JFK, picking up Morgan on the way so he could take the car after dropping us off at the airport. The flight was “only” 6 hours, not much […]
