Drove more than 400 miles today up the 101, visited the Avenue of the Giants and am now at the Best Western in Crescent City.
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Concord – Avenue of the Giants – Crescent City
Yosemite Visit
We had to get chains for Yosemite. And the first car we got couldn’t be fitted with snow chains. So we made the 1.5 hour drive back to the airport to change the car.
When we returned to get chains, we realised that the chains cost $65.55. No choice. No chains = no Yosemite.
Am I a closet shopaholic?
Over the last two weeks, I’ve done more shopping than I have in the last 10 years.
Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I think I’m close.
TransitLink Guide 2009
My TransitLink Guide 2004 has been with me on every single bus trip. My well-thumbed guide, with sections that have fallen out and now sometimes out-of-date, has even taken me to places I didn’t intend to go because of route changes. Which is okay, because I get to go to places I would not have, and discover things I wouldn’t have seen. That’s the joy of travel in a country I call home, but don’t know so well.
Now, four years on, I decided to upgrade to a shiny new TransitLink Guide 2009.
For years, the then Bus Guide, now TransitLink Guide has seen very little change in format. Today, for S$2.50 including GST, I’m now the owner of a copy of the hefty mini Yellow Pages of the public transportation system.
Is the new TransitLink guide an upgrade, a ho-hum side-grade or worse, a downgrade?
USA – Hong Kong Travel Maps
hese are all the maps for my travel from 27th July to 15th Sept 2009. They are dated according to UTC time.
First the main overview of the trip in USA, with two problematic spikes, it’s generally quite accurate.
And then the one of Hong Kong.
Last day in Hong Kong
In the morning, the winds and rains were still strong and the typhoon signal was no lowered till around 10am.
I went out to see some of the aftermath. S said there would be nothing exciting. Just a lot of rubbish and leaves. The real damage is in a place like Lantau Island that would be hit hard. He wasn’t that far off.
Macau didn’t happen
Due to the warnings of a T8 typhoon arriving in Hong Kong, Macau had to be cancelled.
I met A and her friend Q, and soon I was wondering how to fill the day.
We of course, started with food.
Sunday in Hong Kong
It was past noon by the time we headed out and the first place we headed for was the Australian Dairy Company. But no matter how hungry you are, you have to wait your turn in line.
The weekend in Hong Kong (not over yet)
We made it out of Lin Heung and after a short ride up the Mid levels escalators and a walk around Central, we took the ferry to Lantau Island to find Tai O.
The weekend in Hong Kong
… last week.
Yes, I am already back in Singapore as I write this.
S & S took me out to experience the heart and soul of Hong Kong yum cha – basically, a morning of shoving, elbowing, yelling, grumbling to get your cup of tea and dim sum.
Yes, people, this is the world where the customer is slave and staff, king. And judging from the crowd at the place, we are gluttons for punishment.