there and back again

vacation.

i want more than one big one every three years.....

the big question i heard from a lot of friends was: in your car?
what's wrong with my car? she not beautiful but her heart is good!

i have taken long drives before. my grandmother lived in florida and i would drive down with family and then later on being the driver (twenty-six hours dc to fla). the drive out to san fran i just wanted to get us out there....we took 80.

i don't think i'll ever drive on 80 again. large trucks, high speeds, salt flats all not good. 50 is good: beautiful scenery, not much traffic, gas stations at least every one hundred and six miles.

we arrived at heathers at ten at night....she and her roommate were asleep. heathers and her roommate thought we were arriving two days later....ooops

heathers home


gio and i spent the first day walking thru golden gate park - which is the back yard to my sisters!
(if you want to see more photos - www.zerogerman.com - photos)
we walked out to the height. this area reminded me of a hippy georgetown from the 80's. it did have a ton of thrift store - but i didn't want any stinky hippy crap! after the haight we made our way over to skippy's coffee shop to meet up with skip and go out for dinner.

skip took us to a friend's restaurant "bluejays". the resturant is soul food. the food was good but i was more impressed with the layout of the restaurant. it had the most beautiful u shaped counter with bar for more casual dinning. they even used old shutters as part of the lower wall treatment! supercute!

we also took a side trip to napa valley. we rented a room in calistoga and got to bike around and go to a few wineries. ah! there is the best italian restaurant there! they make their own pastas and had the best ravioli, i haven't had any pasta that delicious since the east coast with the di dio and their familie members. uncle joe's cousin marie reagan had a wedding for one of their three daughters- good lord they can that family cook!

food.
the trip had a lot of not eating at home. the restaurants that we chose we good but san fran never wowed me like new york could do. although we did go to an interesting vegi chinese restaurant the last night we were there. the hulahula? hua hua? hu ho? i can't remember.
they served items like vegibeef, vegipork, vegichicken, vegifish. it was interesting, but i don't think i could eat fake meat all the time.

activities:
love parade - a parade from germany that started by a dj that has turned into a huge event. this is the first year that the love parade was tried in another country. super fun! here's some pics







heather and her friend and german hiko


some freaks


some dj


some big boobies


super cutie


zen techno freaks


more cuties


crowded freaks


bridge freaks


dirty clown freaks


big balled freaks


thumpin' freaks




short bus freaks


numchuck swinging freak








super cool! painting the feeling of the parade


heather's so cute that a film wanted her to try out.....the movie's called drunk! they want people to come and drink as muck as they want and answer questions....will heather do it?
will find out later!

then time to go home....it looks like everyone thought that at the same time!!!! i was a sardine for an hour


more to come.........