Leaving California for Mexico

We are getting ready to fly to Mexico. The first stop - Cancun. We are leaving California for four weeks. Almost all of our American friends want to get us scared  with stories about drug mafias in Mexico  kidnapping tourists for ransom. We can only hope that there aren't any problems with...

California - La Honda

A trip to La Honda: 'La Honda is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, United States.[2] The population was 928 at the 2010 census. It is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains between Silicon Valley and the Pacific coast of California. La Honda is near the...

San Francisco - The Castro

We went to a meeting with a San Francisco writer and intelectual - Ron Schmidt. Agata S., Terenia's nice was our guide. Ronald Schmidt has for many years been a militant activist in LGBT (Lesibian Gay Bisexual Trangender).  The book of his life is "Once-Removed". A story about reall...

Los Altos Hills, California

We would like to present you a person with whom I have been friends for many, many years, and Adek for 7. We've been here in Los Altos Hills, her and her husband's - John, guests again and again. Terenia (because she changed her Polish name Teresa into easier for the Americans - Terenia...

California - San Francisco, the cultural

We are not doing any extensive sightseeing in San Francisco, because we know the city form our previous trips. We indulge ourselves in a social life since we are staying at Terenia Offenbacker's in Los Altos Hills (you are going to read more about her in tomorrow's entry). Our mutual frien...

California in January

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state,and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). The four biggest cities are: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and  San Francisco. We happen to be staying at our friends' exactly ...

Fiji - San Francisco

We took off from Fiji on 21st of January and after an 18-hour flight we landed in San Francisco the same day! No, there's no mistake! Air Pacific took us from Fiji on Saturday at 23.00 hrs and left in  Los Angeles at noon the same day! Or the day before! After a five-hour stop-over ...