Colin wonders about public transport in California, which I must say is much better than the public transport I m used to in Canberra. Colin, to get to San Francisco, jump on the VTA light rail and head to the Castro Street (Mountain View) station. There, jump across to the Caltrain station, which will take…
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Sitting in the California DMV office
I’m sitting in the California DMV office in Los Gatos — I’ve just passed my California drivers test, which means I am licensed here. I am waiting for Catherine to do her test, and then we will see if she is licensed too. I have a couple of observations on the testing here though: It’s…
Buying a car in the Bay Area?
It might be worth your effort to avoid these guys. I quite liked Toyota 101 in Redwood City though.
Herm. Arnie and the DMV
Heh, I’m studying for my drivers test tomorrow, and Arnie has written the introduction to the DMV book. It’s kinda strange really.
Napa Valley
Peter, Jasmine (the newly wed Stills) and I went out to the Napa Valley yesterday. Napa Valley is a fairly famous winery area — kinda like a Californian Barossa. After a very nice meal and the discovery that a wine area is much more fun in the summer, we gave up and headed home. Definitely…
Proposed road trip: Santa Cruz
I’m thinking of going on a road trip with the family to Santa Cruz this weekend. The drive doesn’t look too bad: Mountain View to Santa Cruz. There seems to be a fair bit to do there. Been to Santa Cruz? Want to suggest something I should do while there that perhaps kids would like…
Jet lag
Apparently I’m not over my jet lag just yet, as it’s 5:30am and I can’t get back to sleep. I’ve been up for about an hour now. Oh well.
Arrived yesterday
So, Andrew and I arrive in Santa Clara from Canberra yesterday. It took about 24 hours of travelling, and a lot of queueing to make that happen, but we’re here finally. I must admit I’m really liking things so far, I was a bit worried about the expense of rent until we went and saw…
Packing
It’s time for Catherine and I to start thinking of packing for the move, and as ever it’s a barrel of laughs. We’ve made the decision that there is a bunch of stuff which we’re not going to bother to take with us… Mainly things like reference books which I haven’t used in years, but…
All airline tickets now booked…
Not that it was such a pain that I now feel I’ve really achieved something or anything.