Posts Tagged ‘vacation’

July 31st, 2009

Day 3 - Road Trip, East Coast: Last Bit of NYC and Albany, NY

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All photos are finally up. From 1400 down to 404 photos, enjoy!

I stayed in New York longer than expected. I was fatigued of walking and knew that I had to continue my journey. The Hollanders could have walked the whole day and not feel exhausted (late teens to early 20’s and in great shape). We finally made it back to the hostel and I quickly grabbed my suit case and headed to Penn Station.

Taking the train to Albany was relatively quick. I was able to write, look along the Hudson River, and reflect on the trip.

Going to Albany

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May 20th, 2009

May ‘09 Vacation to California (part 2 of 3)

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I haven’t been on a real vacation ever since I went to Japan, which is roughly 2 years ago. I was looking forward to this one because I was going with my girlfriend. We went on a trip last summer to Minnesota, but we didn’t spend much time with each other because she was running around doing activities with her cousins. 

This vacation has been a couple of months in the making. I know my girlfriend needed it and I just wanted to unplug from the ‘9-5’ and relax for more than a weekend. So we picked California, particularly Oakland for a night, and then off to the Mountains (about 2.5 hours away). The drive through Northern California was satisfying, probably because I wasn’t driving, I was also soaking up all of the fresh and breezy air. Oh yeah, we went to California because my girlfriend’s friend husband was celebrating his 30th birthday. 

As we were driving, all I was thinking of was looking over the balcony from the beach house and drinking as much as possible. I didn’t care about the scenery. I wanted to chill, eat, drink, have sex, and that’s about it. But, as I was day dreaming I started paying attention to the road. We drove over the Bay Bridge, which consisted of dirty, nasty, gray water. We went through this one ritzy town, where the locals looked like they enjoyed there quiet, but happenin habitat. We kept traveling on highway 80 or 580 to finally take a detour to the mountain side. The land was clear and flat, as if it was used for farming, as there were cows everywhere to eat, shit, and to look at the cars, trucks, and RV’s pass by. I didn’t know how much longer we had to get to our destination, but I stopped day dreaming and paid attention to the scenery. It was like something from a movie; the elevation kept rising and noticed their were deeps, turns, and mountain passes on both sides of the curvy road. It seemed there were at least 200 turns to get to our destination, I so badly wanted to take over in the driver seat to experience something I have only seen in movies or the television screen. But I stopped acting like I was the best driver ever in the world and enjoyed my time in the passenger seat. 

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May 15th, 2009

Why Does Passion Keep Coming to me…Even During Vacation? Ocean and Mountain, California Vacation Part 1

It has been some time since my last real post. I wanted to get one out of the door before I left, but wasn’t able to get good enough internet access and lost track of time and greatly enjoyed myself. Long story later on, but I went on vacation!

I don’t know where to begin and will write a couple of different post towards this very topic, because vacation, chillin out, relaxing, and doing something different is what all of us needs from time to time. I get different things from all of my vacation trips and don’t know quite yet what I got out of this one. So, for now, I will describe an incident that I’m still thinking about, and is something that will help carry my “other” career for some time.

The end of the trip was nearing and nobody wanted to go home, no one wanted to face reality, no one wanted to begin their routinely 9-5 schedule the same way, before the vacation. We stopped along the way leaving the mountains multiple times. I took some pictures along the way from the back seat of the black Ford Escape we were riding in. When we stopped, we got out of the SUV to take more pictures of each other, with the scenery in the background, and even managed to eat a delicious lunch at an eatery in Bodega Bay (I had 2 orders of fish tacos and an Alaskan Wheat Beer).

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