Zee-bloomin'-ro!
We are here !
It's 10:45 local time, sunny, we're fed, I've seen two new birds already (a chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina, and a Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottus), and we've just realised that we're less than 100 yards* from the nearest BART station.
The plan for the rest of the day is to trundle into the city to find our apartment, then I hear there's an interesting place to visit over on 2nd Street...
This is already shaping up to being a good experience.
UPDATE: Rather than clog up the forums with this stuff, I'm going to blog and tweet it.
*See, I'm talking American already!
It's 10:45 local time, sunny, we're fed, I've seen two new birds already (a chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina, and a Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottus), and we've just realised that we're less than 100 yards* from the nearest BART station.
The plan for the rest of the day is to trundle into the city to find our apartment, then I hear there's an interesting place to visit over on 2nd Street...
This is already shaping up to being a good experience.
UPDATE: Rather than clog up the forums with this stuff, I'm going to blog and tweet it.
*See, I'm talking American already!
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Take that, new image format!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18983558
Enjoy.
< hugs >
Awesome picture of Churchill btw...
Although we leave home tomorrow, it's two sleeps until we actually fly - paranoia made us book a motel near the airport, to save delayed trains making us miss the flight.
(With reasonably good reason, it turned out - several lines have been delayed by vandalism, cable theft (for scrap value) and high temperatures making overhead cables sag to much.)
At least there's free WiFi at the airport. :P
Is it just me, or is your page taking forever to load all the images? I'm seeing a lot of blank spaces.... (even though I have hi-speed internet). o_0
LOL - call it a test of the new image layout...
And there's always good old Ted Rogers...
The beer is a real possibility, because we plan to hire a car some weekends.
Nationally we have the pre-1950's U.S. Highways (in the Bay Area, U.S. 101 is the north-south artery) and the post-1950's Interstates (I-80 is the one from San Francisco to New York). These two systems combined are probably the equivalent of British motorways (M-series).
Each state has their own numbered highway system, with distinctively shaped signs. These are generally smaller than the national highways, and may or may not be limited-access roads; they're analogous to the British A-series roads, I think.
Most states also have county-by-county numbered roads, which are rather like the British B-series roads (typically rural, some may not even be paved!).
The equivalent over here would cost you your license.
It didn't help that this was in a car half a tonne heavier than my regular drive with two and a half times the horsepower o_O
I will not be wearing that on a t-shirt...
:-\
(Camo?)
okay... now that I got that done, its past my bedtime. :-|
I'll only be online sporadically, because we're currently visiting family before The Big Trip.