Category West Coast Spring Swing 2016
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Six
May 5-17 Followers of this blog will recognize our destination for Saturday evening, Speisekammer Restaurant, as being one of our favorite places to eat in the Bay Area. This would be our fourth or fifth visit, having lost track, and we looked forward to a wide selection of German draft beer, authentic food, spending time […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Five
May 5-17 On the way back to Oakland on Friday we stopped in Grants Pass to get the car washed (it was very, very dirty), fill the tank, and pick up a big coffee at Dutch Bros Coffee, our go to stop just before getting on the I-5. I parked the car some feet away […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Four
May 5-17 Wednesday was our day to spend some time in Grants Pass, stopping at a brew pub we’d visited our last time through in 2015 and checking in with our longtime friend from Los Angeles, Mark. We spent the morning reading and writing and in the early afternoon drove the forty minutes it takes […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Three
May 5-17 We left Monday morning after seeing Jessica and Kris (J&K) off to work, heading north on I-80 towards Sacramento, stopping briefly at a Starbucks to redeem a reward, in this case a gigantic latte, before turning north on the I-505 (a nice short-cut eliminating the need to go into Sacramento) and hooking […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part Two
May 5-17 Two short weeks passed and we were back at the airport on the Thursday the 5th for our flight to San Francisco, the beginning of one of our regular not quite two week visits to see Jessica and Kris. By now these trips have become routine, much like the many we undertook after […]
West Coast Spring Swing, Part One
April 16-18 Not content with sitting around the house this spring, we’d planned two distinct outings, the first one of our usual swings out to the west coast to see Jessica and Kris in early May and the second, a weeklong bike tour in June. In early March though we received the news that my […]
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