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SEE ERIN'S VERSION HERE AND JULZ'S VERSION HERE OH AND OF COURSE TRINO'S  VERSION HERE...... Julz was 2 miles ahead of us on the freeway. We were on the celly chatting. Then I wanted to take a nap. Erin would forget to take photos of me every time I passed out in the car. Too bad I don’…

The previous night had involved sad goodbyes to some wonderfull new friends such as Nicole, Amy and Michelle and today there were some more farewells.  I had arranged to meet Adrian, Matt, Erin, Brett and Ian at leftys for breakfast.  By the time I arrived everyone was alre…

My roommate, Angela, and I decided to make a little road trip for the day. It was July and despite it was 9am in the morning, you could feel the humid hot weather in Orange.  We stopped at a gas station before hitting the road, and the sky was so cloudy and dark, looked as if a storm was comin…

My flight from Amsterdam was at 11AM on a Friday.  Last time I had a flight at 11AM on a Friday and I drove up from Eindhoven, I left at 6:30AM and missed the flight (by 5 minutes...technically was there 55 minutes in advance, but needed to be checked in 1 hour before so I had to be moved to a…

Michelle, Puppy and I went up to Reno for a weekend. When we all realized we didn't like to gamble, we hightailed it to Lake Tahoe. The resulting day was a drifty, snowy blur of blues and whites, of snow angels and stunning views. We built a snowman, admired a snowy beach, threw ourselves into a …

After 17 years, erm, I mean hours of transpacific flight (1 hour layover and change plane in Tokyo-Narita airport), I finally arrived in LAX. I slept for mostly during this long trip because there was nothing better to do since Northwest's boeing 747 plane from Tokyo to LA has no on-demand, in…

Angel and I had planned to go hiking on the beach....just a little walk and talk. This morning of question, I had to return a rental vehicle that I had over the weekend to Newport Beach.  It was a little far from my home so it took them a while to get a driver willing to return me to my apart…

Sunday morning and once again beautiful crisp air and not a cloud in the sky. The view from the ski house balcony over looked the village and Lake Crowley, just beautiful! This morning I decided to sit out on the balcony, drink my coffee and play some trance rhythms on my drum, awwwh so awesome! …

After getting up at the crack of dawn to get a long work day in before leaving for Los Angeles, I get a phone call from my darling mother who inquires as to my arrival date.  "You aren't arriving TODAY, are you?," she quips.  "Uh,  yeah, planning to get on the road after traffic,…

In the afternoon we met with Mark again at downtown, this time we went to visit a lot of places in the city... while driving its streets i liked very much the atmosphere but must important: the architecture... i love the houses... they looked all so clean, painted on nice colors and i als…

After the pool party and after we got ready, we got the party started early at our hotel room.  I had a double shot of Grey Goose and some sort of lethal orange colored concoction that Angel made.  We didn't have many glasses so Angel had to serve her cocktail in coffee mugs and I got the…

We got up early in our last day!! And what for a day. In the great city of San Francisco. It is certainly one of the greatest places I have ever been, not only for it's beauty but also because of it's liberal climate. Whites, blacks but also an huge Chineze section, all kind of religions, but also,…

What an awesome night! Julz got tickets for the concert for my Bday and I was very excited to see this along with catching up with Julz!  I got down to San Jose in record time and we were about to venture off for the concert when she surprised me with another gift.  I got a Jack Skellingt…

Hah. And you thought this was going to begin with me stepping off the airplane into paradise. If you've read any of my other blogs, you should know better. Nay, my friend, you are about to enter my diatribe, or a taste of the bull-pucky that put more than a few grey hairs on my head before even get…

My plan for the Labor Day weekend as of mid-July was to go to the Hollywood Bowl for the John Williams: A Hollywood Legend performance on August 30th with my brother, my soon-to-be sister-in-law, and 4 of their friends.  Since my dad was playing a golf tournament in the Palm Springs area, my m…