Penny Early Monday morning, we said goodbye to our friend and amazing San Jose host Alan and we hopped onto a train that would take us to Los Angeles.  The train ride lasted 11 hours and we finally arrived in LA at 9pm.  We had first considered going to a late movie and dinner to…

Penny On our 2 day trips to San Francisco, we tried to see as much as possible and experience the West Coast lifestyle. San Fransisco is exactly like in the movies. It is really hilly and it has that distinctive west coast architecture. Driving in the city is treacherous as our friend (and driver) Alan…

Joseph As Penny mentioned we broke down and bought a laptop computer. For all who care about such things, we went for the Gateway 370. It has a 14” screen, 1.5 Ghz, 60 GB hard drive, weighs about 5 lbs and has a cool SD card reader that makes loading our pictures a lot easier.…

Penny We had some big plans for the 5 or so days in San Jose which included making numerous day trips to San Francisco… Unfortunately, upon our arrival to San Jose, I got very sick. For the past 3 days I have had a fever and have spent a lot of my time sleeping!  Fortunately,…

Joseph Sacramento is an old town that was in the center of the gold rush.  It is now the capital of California and where the Governator; Arnold Schwarzenegger, works.  However, the main reason for stopping in Sacramento was to visit some relatives of mine.  Despite growing up together in Peru my mother hadn’t seen her…

Penny We are once again a little behind our posts!  We will catch up today! Once we we left Vancouver, we took a bus ride to Seattle.  The ride was long and uneventful… It was a great opportunity to catch up on sleep.  Once in Seattle, we had to figure out where we were going…