J and I had talked about an overnight trip for who knows how long. So a couple of weeks ago, we finally just said, enough, let’s go. Since it was going to be a hot weekend in Sacramento, it was a good time to get away. Saturday morning, we headed...
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© earthquake.usgs.gov On Friday night, at 8:26 pm local time, California experienced its biggest earthquake in 20 years. M7.1 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter was in Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert. I was sitting on my couch on Friday night watching TV when I heard some creaking noises. Sometimes,...
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Heather, who writes over at Heather goes to Deutschland, is an American now living in my home country Germany. She recently posted this Expat/Immigrant Survey and I thought this would be a nice way to give a little overview of how I ‘got here’. Some people have a problem with...
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You know, I do this sometimes: go to San Francisco to meet up with various ladies, that I once upon a time met on the Internet, and spent the day. I’ve done it with Viviane, with Manja, with Jenny, and last Friday with my friend Tanja . San Francisco is a...
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I’ve been a little bit at a loss of words this month…. for so many reasons I guess (do you watch the news?), but I’ve been also suffering a bit from writer’s block. Not much has been happening around here. Well, except for ALL THE RAIN. I can’t remember the...
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The last few days of my parents’ visit flew by fast. On Thursday (10/13), we had a late breakfast and my Dad decided to try out another golf course in the afternoon. My Mom and I decided to drive to Davis. We walked around, checked out some shops and I...
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I was never very political on this blog, but I think I can’t help it in the wake of the president-elect. I was out running errands yesterday and it felt all wrong. Everybody was going about their daily business, when the world should have stopped on Tuesday night. People have compared...
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Two Saturdays ago, I flew down to SoCal for a quick weekend trip to see Caryn and her boyfriend Joe. They flew out from Washington, D.C. and I was so thrilled to see them again. I got into Burbank on Saturday morning, picked up my rental car and made...
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We spent a rest day (7/13) in Sacramento to relax and do some much overdue laundry, before heading out for another short trip to Yosemite National Park the next day (7/14). Our first stop was Mariposa, where we were going to stay one night at the Comfort Inn Yosemite Valley...
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I am recapping the wonderful times that I had with my family here in the States this summer. See all related posts under the category: summer tales. Today (7/12) we left San Francisco to head to Napa Valley. We picked out another café close by for breakfast. The “Corner Bakery” was...
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