Author: aloysius-bear

On our last full day in the Bay Area, we headed into San Francisco itself on the double decker CalTrain. We arrived just in time for a yummy lunch of clam chowder and calamari on the famous Pier 39, which was incredibly touristy, but still fun. There was an odd carousel that played no music,…

One of our friends works at Google and seems to be thriving there. On our second day, he took us for a tour round Google Campus. It was a lovely day, and a lovely campus, with all sorts of things to keep the Googlers happy – including, for some reason, giant deck chairs. This furry…

After leaving Altadena, we made our way to the Bay Area (having a minor adventure involving a flat tyre and a miraculously appearing tyre repair centre on the way), and our friends there took us out for the day to Santa Cruz. The first stop was the Mystery Spot, where normal physical laws do not…

Following an enthusiastic recommendation from we trooped off today (11th April) to see the retired space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center. It’s very pretty here. Oooo – an SR71 Blackbird in the car park! Now on to the main thing… This is actually a poster on the way through the museum showing how…

(Before Christmas…) Bear : I can’t believe it’s been five months since we’ve posted anything. I’m packing you off to Japan to do some exciting roving reporting! Moomintroll : Awesome, can’t wait! So, here I am in Japan. It’s all thanks to the lovely folks at Unagi Travel who arrange special holidays for folks like…

 One of the humans is working in Bristol quite a lot these days so I thought I’d tag along and see what’s what in the south west. Welcome to scenic Bristol by Avon. A small and uneventful city. Barely left the station and bumped into this very well dressed and somewhat familiar chap. Looks like…

A couple of weeks ago, my primary human and her maternal unit took a trip to Disneyland Paris. I went along to supervise them, of course. I got a very warm welcome from the resident owner: This fine fellow was ready to welcome us in the newer Disney Studio park: He informed us as we…

The humans and I have just got back from a great holiday in California. I’ve been with one of them before to visit her friend over there but it was the first time for the other one. Unfortunately they forgot to take any photos of the people they went to see, their lovely house or…

For the final day of the trip we stayed at Big Bear Lake but we stopped on the way at Big Bear Alpine Zoo. It’s an all-rescue zoo which relies on donations for its work. One of the humans has been involved in raising money for it before so it was nice to go there…

After the desert we went to visit an online-friend of one of the humans. She lives in Rancho Santa Margarita and took us out to the ocean for the afternoon. Just yesterday we were in the desert. The town was founded by this chap. I think the sculptor may have used a little artistic license……