…don’t drive. at least not by yourself.
you should also wear flowers in your hair.
I left my home at 9am on Saturday morning, headed to the post office for a bit, then to fill up on gas, and then I headed south for the “11 hour drive” to SF. I stopped a few times for gas, bathroom, food, and stuff like that. I also stopped at the lowe’s in Salem, OR to pick up the power inverter that i had purchased online for in store pickup. I ended up arriving at Robin’s place in San Francicso at 10:40pm or so, 13 and a half hours after I left, tired, with a sore back and legs, and a headache.
The drive wasn’t really all that bad, just incredibly long. At around 6:00pm i knew that I wanted to stop, but that i still had at least 4 hours left to go, and had no choice but to keep going. I talked to my parents for the last 2 hours of the drive, which really helped keep me alert and awake, and got me into san francisco safely.
Robin’s got a pretty nice apartment he’s sharing; two bedroom with one bath, a good sized living room and kitchen. The building is on a corner across from the Golen Gate Park, and if you lean out you can see the park just up the street. A bit pricey, but it’s SF, and really it’s not THAT much more than an apartment in downtown Seattle would be.
I hadn’t eaten dinner at that point - in fact i hadn’t eaten anything except chex mix since around noon - so we hit up an indian place called Naan and Curry which was pretty good. The chicken tikka masala tasted really nothing like tikka masala usually tastes, but it was still good. The restaurant totally screams San Francisco. The “hostess” (girl at the front) is really friendly and tells you to go sit at one of the tables. They have a little closet with silverware and plates and stuff, plus drinks, and you go in there to get what you need, there’s no waiter to set up your table all nice. Later someone brings you your food, and then when you’re done with your meal you go back to the front and she rings you up. I can’t really imagine a place operating like that anywhere else. After dinner I pretty much collapsed and had a nice 10 hour sleep until morning.
Sunday morning we headed out for breakfast and then walked around Golden Gate Park. Our plan was to take a short walk to find the buffalo in the park, and then we’d figure out what else to do, but we ended up walking all the way to the beach on the pacific ocean and back, which took about 3 hours, and we must have walked 4 or 5 miles total. Afterwards we were both pretty beat so we hung out at the apt. and i showed robin the woners of halo 2. No Live play though, apparently not everyone owns a 60 foot ethernet cable.
Dinner was burgers at “Slider’s Burger” which were good, then a little more walking, and then just chilling at home again, with a little more halo 2.
This morning I got up and when robin headed to work, i went to breakfast, and then jumped in my car and set out for LA, the farther destination of my trip. This drive was MUCH better, since it was only… five and a half hours or so. Pretty uneventful, it was mostly just farmland and nothingness, but once i got within an hour or two of LA it got pretty, with rolling hills and trees and a really nice looking lake that i should have stopped at to take a picture. I reached LA at 3:30 and hung out with my brother, setting up his new computer which I had built in Seattle and driven down with me, but had been unable to get working. (turns out the RAM was bad. swapping it had it running in minutes).
tomorrow… not much during the day, then lunch with pete and chelo, and something at night, yet to be determined.
Well, i guess i’ll go to sleep now, since there’s not much to do here when i’m the only one awake.
