"Oh, no! The plants are all gone!" - My daughter, walking around the deck yesterday morning This will be my last Los Angeles Pubski for... many months. Despite douchebags in VWs, it's melancholy; the last houseplant has been dispersed and the fish have a new home. At the same time, our neighborhood up in Seattle has a legit aquarium co-op (warning - Youtube autoplay) and my father-in-law has a greenhouse full of prize-winning orchids so I'm sure I'll get over it quickly. A thankful father gave my wife a nice bottle of champagne as thanks for a birth well done; he's a wine merchant so it was a pretty cool gesture. We've been holding onto it to crack open and drink when we have a signed lease for the birth center. That was NINE MONTHS AGO. But I should maybe get it chilling. SO: West Coast Hubski Peeps: DAY 1 looks like San Luis Obispo, because apparently their children's museum is pretty dope and because we're getting a late start. DAY 2 is the Monterey Bay Aquarium because it's the first place I ever went where I decided it'd be more fun with a kid. After that... well, gimme places you think I should bring a 2 year old between San Francisco and Portland. _______________________________________________ NROL-55 is going up tomorrow morning at 6am. Buddy and I are probably going up. 'cuz you know what? it's a solid booster and it's launching into dawn.
Aaaaah what a great road trip. I drove from SF to Seattle several years ago to drop off a friend at college. Beautiful drive. Hmmm let's see.. The gum wall in SLO is.. interesting? Might be fun as long as your child stays far away from the walls. Go check out the lion seals on pier 39 in San Francisco! If you take a slight detour, crater lake is really cool. I'm pretty sure there are barges that go to the island in the middle. If not you can always hike down and jump in! If you want to risk a two year old with sugar check out voodoo donuts in Portland. I'm more then a little jealous.. Have fun! Also, all photos stolen shamelessly from google.
Crater lake is well worth it. Ah, godspeed there. As I think more about it, a roadtrip could help in a funeral buildup.. Enough time to recollect, enough to ready oneself.
It might be a bit daunting for a kid as small as yours - and seeing as getting in the fountain isn't really condoned... it may not be the best suggestion, but this place blew my mind (and my kids'). http://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/finder/index.cfm?&propertyid=194&action=ViewPark It's wicked dangerous and fraught with perils - maybe the kid will fall 20 feet to her death? maybe there are spend needles or broken glass in the bottom? But it was HELLA fun.
Yeah, Keller is awesome. Here's the thing, though: LA is as wide east-to-west as the drive from Seattle to Portland... or Seattle to Vancouver. Blew my mind. Also made me realize that heading down to Portland ain't no thang, particularly as I have a lot of friends there.
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/ It looks like they're just opening a new exhibit, if you think your daughter would be into it. Plus a great view of the bay!After that... well, gimme places you think I should bring a 2 year old between San Francisco and Portland.
Oh, for some reason I'd imagined her a bit older! Still worth a pass through if you're looking for a view. Otherwise there are plenty of outdoor parks in the mountains there that I absolutely love! There are also two botanical gardens in Berkeley that are quite beautiful!
1) Having grown up in Los Alamos, NM, Livermore is where those pussies who bitched about how far they were from San Francisco came to have their lives destroyed when their parents moved from an exurb of a major metropolitan area to the middle of bum fuck nowhere a half-hour's drive from a fucking Taco Bell. FUCK Livermore. 2) I spent 9 days driving the 1 as far as the 1 goes. I agree with you... until you get to the Oregon coast. Everyone who yammers about the Oregon coast is getting out and walking around; if you're driving the 1 in Oregon, you're in a tree tunnel for six hours.
Yeah, our family moved there from Oakley. So... San Ramon was a step up? Not that they could afford to live outside the desert anyway, but hey, 2000 was one hell of a year to buy an $800k house you couldn't afford. The 1 is great only in CA. Between the Bay Area and San Simeon is exquisite, but if I'm in Cascadia there are way more beautiful things to see. Also, I'm aware you have minors aboard and whatnot, but there are some absolutely incredible breweries you could hit up on your way through NorCal. I usually do a mix of Lagunitas, Mendocino, Russian River, North Coast, and Anderson Valley. Three of those are within a half hour of each other.