Palo Alto Luau & cheap ass wine

I suppose my trip should be marked and noted for more than the incessant partying and drinking but...

I seem to be doing a lot of it...
take for instance the other night I went Huggies and Leti party. Huggies/Leti for those of you that don't know, were from the Bus.

He had a huge luau party at his house in mountain view out side of SF, 70-80 drunk hawiian shirted/coconut shelled bra'd people. Jesus the amount of booze, going down.. with mixers and liqour being downed left right and centre.

Notable events from the night included.

The barbi not starting and a load of men not being able to do anything and me having to step up to the 'MAN' plate. and sort it out... hope you enjoyed the carbonised food.
Heid quitting early at 12.00
The fact they sell Pineaple as well Mango Malibu
Finding a pair of lacy green pants and tampax packets all over the garden the next day.
Meeting a girl from Hawaii who name was ANI, which she then proceeded to tell us meant evil in hawaiian... nice
the 2 DJ's myself and jo trying to get people dancing... but everyone being disintersted...oh well

The Next morning we woke up to a bomb scene... bottles, grass skirts, beads, marshmellows and everything in between. After helping to clear up Leti and Hugs drove around stanford and Palo Alto where the train station was. We got to the train station just in time and we said good bye to Huggies and Leti.

Then we waited for the train... and then waited some more.


1 1/2 hours later and with heid about to kill some one the train arrived (apparantly delayed after a death on the line)


On the train back I had a great chat with some random woman who described San Francisco a having strange morals.

But we had to get back to the touristy stuff. so we hired some bikes and cycled like nobodies business. We cycled about 20-25 miles. Up some really bad hills. my muscles today are in semi hell. But on the plus side I have now cycled across the Golden gate bridge as well as golden gate park and the presidio.


Oh and forgot to upload some photo's from earlier including the 4 of July fireworks where we were put through the wringer of appalling cheesy patriotic music


oh and two photo's from mission and Castro.

80's music and bombs

Yesterday was a day for admin... I let Heid wande rthe city so that I could organise myself (booking Hostels etc)for the next few days weeks... At the start of it I did then find out about the London Bombs.

Thankfully no one to the best of my knowledge...

We have now booked into the Yosemite trip and also we are going to Alcatraz.

Also we went out Last night with Carrie and Clare to the Cat club, with some of the best 80's music I have heard in a while. And all through the night I was at various times the Girl's Boyfriends as well. I danced like a fool all night... The girls were dancing wih some strange men though... claire for instance had some guy who for lack of a better name we shall call MUNGO. Not a pretty boy. ANd they all had had their asses touched and pulled one way or another.

Oh in terms of tourist shit, we visited the hell tourist hole of fisherman's wharf. Over and done with.

Today we visit the heart of the fruit and nuts that is San Francisco... as we visit Mission and Castro!

Birds Flying High .... You know how I feel

The title is of Course inspired by the amazing song I feel Good by Nina simone.
Because life is great over here at the moment.

After collecting Heid from the airport I spent the day just recovering from the drunkenness of the night before. So much so that I the evening I bugged out of the drink s at about 12.00 and went to sleep at about . Little did I know about the the rest of the craziness and Fighting and puking and sordid stories and injuries that would happen after I left.

I would worry about cataloging it all here Surfice to say that the Following Happened.

Someone revealed that they had had sex in a bar locally in plain view of other people.
Someone fell out of their bed broke their arm for which they were charged $2000 and also discovered they had an eye infection after an infection to a mascara.

Some people were nearly thrown out of the bar after getting into a minor dispute over the singing of sea shanties. Loudly.

Too much Whiskey was drunk.

Someone puked outside the offices to the green tortoise hostel... From the windows of the green tortoise hostel office.

Far too much Whiskey was drunk.

Fighting began. Scratching and Biting as well. And apparently this was arousing for someone.... nuff said.

The following morning, Blood stained shirts, Hang overs & bruises cuts later. People waking up thinking what the hel happened.

All I have to say on this all is that in many ways I was glad I missed out on this and also I am sorry I didn't see the chaos in full flow.

I suppose I should update you on the things I have been doing. Well I have been Origaming like a demon and my dollar rings are very popular. Also I visited the California Academy of sciences as well as the Cartoon Art Museum. And also saw Batman begins on the .... wait for it ... on an Imax Screen... OH man was tat ever the greatest!!! brilliant film especially when done so big. Drank cocktails on the first of our Tiki Bar hunt around the city.

Not much else to report.

Laters

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SAN Fransicso

SO after Arriving safe and well on the 3rd of july here in San at about 10 pm we had to book ourselves in and sort ourselves out for the night. Conor hadn't got a room so he kipped in mine as i had ffered it.

Wait a minute let me give you some more of the details first.
Arrvived
checked in
Went to buy booze
Sat down in the lounge area here in the Green tortoise (the greatest Hostel I have ever stayed in)
Promptly Drank booze with the remanants of the of te crew staying at green tortoise. Lisa and Claire had no place to stay so I offered up my room to them as well. We it was not so much that they didn't have a place to stay but after a bit of partying we were doing there was no way to get back to Lisa's house in Santa Cruz. And maybe Lisa wanted an excuse to hang around a little bit longer as wel... I couldn't possibly say.

So after some more drinking and singing Brian our co driver fro the trip managed to make it back from Oakland where the bus had been Dropped off. As you find out once I have fully typed up my bus trip hbe was also known as the Shanty Man.

As you may have guesszd from the frequent mentions of boze and alcohol it ws a meessy night not least when at 1.30 am we decided to go out to a bar.. which where due to close in half an hour. But I did get served by a guy ina MExican Wrestling mask some cranberry Vodka. But we had a problem our group. We had no More booze back at the hostel. AAAARRRGGGG. But we were saved since Louise who was with some guy who I don't even know the name of had gone to the local korean bodega and was buying booze. Having been chucked out of our bar wewhere trying to shout and mime to louise what we wanted... with out much success.

"Bombay Saphire!!!"

2 bottles of whiskey having been purchased and some spiced rum Later in the hostel we were back int he lounge area of the hostel. (Literally we left this building for all of 20 mins, 7 of which were in a bar) we were sing playing guitar, generally making far too much Noise. Though Conor's rendition of Ramble on (irony not appreciated at the time) with accompianment by dean on the Bongo was amazing. So having been chucked out of the lounge area. It was up to our rooms.

Lisa And Claire had decided to crash a little bit earlier and were in my room when I came in a with a few others and started to wach Lock Stock and two smoking barrels. We were all starting to dooze a little at this point so we went to sleep. When I went to sleep I had a french and an amercian women in bed with me. When I awoke I had a load of mascara on my face (thanks Louise) and an Irish guy sleeping next to me... Alcohol does strange and funny things to us all. This was at 10.30 am and I then had to work to pull the vokaised parts of my psyche and body together to get to the airport to collect Heid... more later.

More to come but I thought you would all lie a taster of my first proper night in San Fran. The past 16 days as I have said are in a journal and i will update you all soon.

so...

I have finished. the green tortoise trek and i am in the hostel here in san fran.

i had an amazing time for which i will be cataloguing the whole affair over the next few days.

surfice to say it was effing amazing and one of the greatest experiences of my life.

hope to hear from you soon.

G

Wow- too much to write up

I can't write it all yet as I don't ave a lot of time, but I have been keeping an extensive journal. When I get off the green Tortoise I will let you know all the details. But in the mean time I have had some time to type up everyone elses comments and most memorable moments from the trip so far, so check them out at this site.. it is fun! Hey there you 8 dayers!

http://www.gaetanlee.com/GreenTort2005.htm

i am alive

ok just a quick post to say that i am alive and i am going to be treking down into the grand canyon today... (1 mile from top to bottom)internet access has been non existant so far... bu ti have been keeping a journal that i will update when i am able...

Great news

It is looking like I might have some work in Australia for at least a month!



I might be doing some Dana Centre/Cafe scietifique work out at Questacon.

More details when I have them but it is looking very positive.

Lots of things to say about not about any 1 thing

I am reaching the end of my time here in South Carolina, I have already said my goodbyes to Perry, Colleen, Andreka, Mark. I t has been an amazing time.. Despite the erratic and extreme weather here.. How English is that of me to be talking about the weather all the time. But it has been crazy. Considering the 'bland English weather i am used to. You should see the corn around here, when i got here 4 weeks ago nothing, now over 4 feet tall.

Anyway, we unpacked everything back at base from the school workshops we had done. I feel sorry for the team who have to sort through and re-pack it all. What has been particularly fun for me has been organizing the design challenge here with the kids and teachers on Thursday. It involved them getting into small groups and building something that could travel across terrains. I feel that in a previous life I was a wrestling commentator.

One of the activities we have been running is about measuring length of various parts of the body. Now imagine you are in a room with a load of female teachers, it doesn't take a genius to work out what sort of jokes followed. Apparently our in depth research has worked out that a hand's width is about the same size as er.. um.. well .. you know what i mean.


I have been eating out pretty much every night... it seems to be a national obsession. I was saying.. in fact over dinner tonight at Ruby Tuesday, that i have eaten out more times in the past month with Science Southern I have in the past year living in London. Scary. But with The green tortoise trip I will be taking I will be back to a really simple vegetarian meal every day. I have also probably eaten more seafood in the past month as the last year. Not quite true but it sounds good.

One of the best things to do though it has to be said is to be able to sit down after getting home at about 16.00 and sitting out on the patio ad just having a single solitary cold beer. And do absolutely Nothing... thoroughly deserved after having to wake up at at about 05.30am. A time which should never exist in my daily schedule..

Florence has left me with many good memories and some interesting times. And also a few scars... Namely the one on my elbow from the smoke stack on the truck.

I went to Books a million in town ( the only book shop in town! And the only place to buy a New York Times) and bought my self a new book. "stiff" not some porn related thing. More the history of scientific history of the use dead bodies and apparently necrophillia is only illegal in 13 states in the USA and only got banned in 1969 in one state. Just thought that that was a fact you all needed to know

I have some fantastic shots from the schools and workshops but I am waiting for them all to come in, I also need to get a few from Andrew.. Once i have them all I will post them to show you some of the stuff I have been up to in the week

So tomorrow at 5.00am I have to get up and head to Charlotte.

San Francisco here I come.