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...about some of the places I mention frequently
- work / the base / Moffett Field
- My job's
at the NASA Ames Research Center, located at
historic Moffett Field, which is between San Francisco and San Jose, adjacent to
the towns of Mountain View and Sunnyvale. This entry footnote
has links to a picture and more info
- El Camino (Real)
- "The royal road"
which connected the California missions. I live close
by and give a few more details here
- Sushi House
- Cheap sushi place in Palo
Alto (You pay first, and they bring you what you ordered, like at good Mexican
restaurants.) more
- Tung Kee Noodle
- Chinese-Vietnamese noodle
chain - New Tung Kee is a similar spinoff chain
- the Fuckin' Noodle
- Pho Xe Lua - Vietnamese
soup and noodle restaurant chain - more details here
- Peet's
- NoCal coffee chain
way better than Starbucks. The one I'm at (sometimes daily) is in
Los Altos. Occasionally I go to their other nearby branch in Palo Alto,
near the Sushi House. Although they're a NoCal tradition since 1966, recently
they've expanded south - I've been to the new one in Manhattan Beach
(prices lower down there)
- Trader Joes
- A food and beverage
store once peculiar to SoCal - this entry has an appreciation
- Yaohan and Ranch 99
- Japanese and Chinese
supermarket chains
- Fry's
- West Coast "big-box" electronics chain.
Their reputation is legendary
- Amoeba, Tower
- record stores I
frequent. The former is only in the City and Berkeley; but there's
a branch of the latter in my neighborhood
- the City
- San Francisco the Bridge the Golden Gate
- Mountain View
- one of the
older communities in the Valley of Heart's Delight. I live there, real close to the borders
of neighboring Los Altos and Palo Alto
- the Valley of Heart's Delight
- Archaic
name for Silicon Valley
- DC, "Inside the Beltway", "home"
- I am from Washington, a
D.C. native; friends and family still live back there
- College Park
- (Maryland) - where my
brother N lives with his wife Q; my parents live nearby. Kendall
called the intersection of Knox Road and Route 1 "the Great Magnet"
- Nags Head, the Outer Banks
- ...of North
Carolina, where P, L, V and her sister live; also known for the Lost Colony, Wright
Bros, Cape Hatteras & etc
- the Island
- T's summer place in Ontario - I
visited in 1975, 1980 and 1995 - it's actually two small adjacent islands
- NoCal
- Northern California (They
think they're better - I think not)
- SoCal
- The Los Angeles basin.
(Personally I consider Orange County to be part of "LA")
- Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach
- Throw
in Redondo Beach and that section of Torrance known as the "Hollywood
Riviera" you've got the "South Bay" of Los Angeles (County). I lived
in Hermosa Beach for four years
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