Saturday, April 23, 2005

Day 6: Long Beach, CA -> Santa Clara, CA

Well, we're finally here. The drive up the CA coast was great, and we rolled into silicon valley around 8 or 9 last night. Unfortunately I can't actually get into my new apartment until late this afternoon, so now begins the time honored tradition of killing time. Fortunately there appears to be a movie theater just down the street from our hotel, and the first shows start reasonably soon after we have to check out...

One thing that did amuse me about the ride up though: there are these huge sections of California with big rolling hills, covered in green grass and alltogether too perfect trees, it looks like something out of either a model train set or a miniatures battle, quite strange.

Anyway, I imagine much of the rest of today will be spent in the "figuring out where things are" process. The temporary apartment seems rather close to where we are now, and I think I know how to get to the office from there, so at least that's a start...