next day i packed all my stuff and set off for the 20 minute drive to mountain view, to meet another friend of mine who was working on a web startup project that he had gotten funding from a silicon valley venture capital firm. have been through silicon valley before a lot and you really feel like you are at the center of the tech world. its the equivalent of being in paris for fashion. cisco, apple, yahoo, facebook, google, are all based in the small towns in the valley and the cafes are full of people with their ibooks working on the next big idea. had lunch at a thai restaurante and then hit the road for the long drive to san diego. stopped off briefly at the san luiz reservoir but then hit the road and blasted it down the I-5.
got san diego around 9:30pm. i can drive for hours during daylight hours but as soon as it gets dark, it really makes me feel tired. by the time i got the to the hotel i was ready to hit the sack.
next day i went to to coronado and spent most of my time at the beach.
went back into town in the evening and grabbed a couple of slices at ciros pizza on market street. have been there before a couple of times, and aside from there being a hot waitress there sometimes, they do great pizza as well.
the next day i went to the air and space museum in balboa park, and then drove to mission beach and spent the rest of the day there. i needed a couple of relaxing beach days at the end where i did very little. that was to be my last full day in cali as next morning i drove back to LAX to fly back.
i did what i usually do on my final day in LA. i grabbed some lunch on melrose at la la's argentine grill, and then headed to the airport.
i took a lot of music with me and each trip tends to have a particular band associated with it. last time i went i listened to editors a lot. this time, i found myself listening to the verve a lot and especially this song.
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