tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60467310814282569072011-06-08T02:23:12.206-04:00What happens when two East Coast lovebirds decide to pack up their belongings and say goodbye to friends, family, bagels, good pizza and seasonal weather, and move to San Francisco? Travel along with us and our butter lamb as we drive across the country and settle into life on the other Left Coast.Jen and Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379708136148466199noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6046731081428256907.post-18746566551393307712008-04-05T21:28:00.004-04:002008-04-05T21:35:15.036-04:00

Contrary to popular perception, butterlamb has been out numerous times in the Bay Area. For instance, way back in August, Butterlamb demanded to be taken to the Crocket Wine and Arts Festival.Crocket has rules and regulations.It also has a bridge. Butterlamb loves having his picture taken in front of large feats of civil engineering.And finally, Crocket sells T-shirts. In case you're a lost

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From the Presidio. Taken sometime in February I think.

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Don't worry, Easter Sunday will always bring out Butterlamb, singing alleluah while checking out the hard boiled eggs.

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View from Fisherman's Wharf.Today was my last weekday before beginning my new job on Monday. Thinking, what would I do that I would not normally do on a weekend or do in a longtime while living in San Francisco, I headed to NYC's version of Times Square, Fisherman's Wharf.Now, I understand why Rough Guide goes as far as to describe the Wharf and surrounding area as such:"San Francisco rarely

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In less than 24 hours, the final Harry Potter book will be in my hands. I am seriously giddy in anticipation like a little kid. I CANNOT WAIT!!! I pre-ordered the book from the lovely and amazing Green Apple Books here in SF so that my money wouldn't go to some mega-corporation like Borders and to ensure I would not have to deal with UPS or the postal system, both of which have probably been

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Two weeks in the freezer and Butter Lamb has been going stir crazy. We decided to let him out for our trip down to Santa Cruz, then back up the coast on Highway One before we stopped in Half Moon Bay for dinner. Butter Lamb decided not to go down to the ocean due to windy conditions and the shark hazards. Good thing Butter Lamb didn't know about Devil's Slide before we drove this treacherous

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Photos from our hike through part of Golden Gate State Park...

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The best news first. Drum roll please... we're now both gainfully employed. If you would like more details, please send us an e-mail.We've decided to keep the blog rolling, to chronicle our West Coast exploits and adventures since the majority of our readers are on not in this time zone. Butter Lamb will continue to make appearances, and continue to rest comfortably in our freezer next to the

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A more general post about Butter Lamb and beginnings of life on this Left Coast is overdue, so once Dan gets through his California drivers license written test today, we'll be back on track with our more adventurous musings.On that note, both of us have to obtain California drivers licenses. Neither of us have taken a written drivers test in years. Try 12 years. We obviously know how to drive

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While skimming newspaper headlines, I found an unsettling story about a wildfire that swept through our favorite town in Neveda, Winnemucca. Sad...

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Still alive, hanging in the freezer, now sporting a flat top hair-do due to some desert thawing. We've decided more photos will come forth from our West Coast adventures. Stay tuned.

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The BBQ restaurant outside our hotel in Winnemucca, NV. Open for breakfast and offering video poker.Our first San Fran road sign on the twisting, turning road through the Sierra Nevadas.Our official introduction to San Francisco - driving into the city via the Golden Gate Bridge. Wild and beautiful.

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That's the Pacific. Within walking distance of our apartment. Whoa.The view down our street.Since landing yesterday in California, we've accomplished the following:- Moved into our sublet in the Outer Richmond, a mostly residential neighborhood just blocks from the Pacific Ocean that has beautiful views of the Ocean, more beautiful views of Golden Gate State Park, lots of delicious looking dim

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All I can say is wow. Wow. We are in San Francisco, having come into the city, rightfully so, across the Golden Gate Bridge. This is a short post, as our friends Joe and Jasmine have made an incredible dinner for us at their equally incredible apartment, and we are hungry for homemade food and good friends.We will post photos from the last part of our trip soon, but we must get ourselves together

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Salt Lake City is of course, the center of the Church of Latter Day Saints (The Mormons). We toured the Temple Square, which is essentially the Mormon Vatican. As you enter, some very perky young women meet you and ask where you're from, why you're there, etc. This general theme continues throughout the grounds, and the later tour. Young perky women asked us where we were from, and why we were

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If you ever have the inkling to visit Echo, Utah, here's what you can expect.Unbelievable scenery.See Frank in the cafe for gas.Yup, that one.

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Internet here in Winnemucca is very slow, so the promised thoughts and photos from Salt Lake City will be up sometime later.If you're living in Utah and want a break from the morally upright lifestyle, luckily, there is a den of sin close by: Nevada. Las Vegas is its capital in terms of temptations, but other towns come close. As we neared the Utah/Nevada border yesterday, signs promised

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Dan and I have arrived in Winnemucca for the evening and may actually fall off the vegetarian wagon for the amazing Basque food that is so popular here.Pictures and stories from Salt Lake City and our tour of Temple Square will up sometime tonight but for now...- It's amazing how tan you can get just driving in a car all day. Dan and I have strikingly dark tans, and my hair hasn't been this

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Before we post about yesterday's travels across Wyoming and into Salt Lake City, we want to wish Scott our best wishes moving into his new apartment today and wish Destiny a belated happy birthday.After a make-it-yourself Belgium waffle breakfast at our hotel in Casper, we drove down Interstate 25 and then onto Interstate 80 in Wyoming. Who says there's nothing to see in the middle of Wyoming?

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When you stare at the road for upwards of 12 hours a day, you start contemplating some crazy things:- What is tar made out/composed of? - Do aliens really exist? - Why do hotels rarely provide you with towels that are barely large enough to fit the Olsen twins put together?Anyway, we are on to Salt Lake City today. Did you know that the Salt Lake has more salt in it than the Dead Sea? And the

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Butterlamb is an attraction unto itself. Even at the base of one of our most famous national landmarks, Mount Rushmore. Butter Lamb was able to stop the hordes of tourists in their tracks. People gathered all around to witness Butter Lamb, and the two crackpots who have decided to carry a piece of butter around the country with them.This is no lie. We got to the Mount Rushmore visitor center,

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It's been a big and fun morning for us and Butter Lamb. After being teased for hundreds of miles with their catchy billboards along side Interstate 90, we visited Wall Drug. Wall Drug is the home of free ice water, 5 cent coffee and more cheesy photo opportunities than Disney World. Here are the best shots:Ride 'em cowboy.No comment.Jen on a jackalope.Butter Lamb hearts Wall DrugWe'll

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I am happy to report that as we settle into our Motel 6 room in Wall, South Dakota for the evening after an epic drive from Galena, Illinois, Butter Lamb is still alive! A bit soft, a bit goopy, but still with us on our cross country journey. Since we left Erie, PA on Tuesday morning, here’s where we have traveled: - A short jaunt through Pennsylvania along Lake Erie on Interstate 90. -

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We thought that this blog entry was going to be delayed because, surprise surprise, wireless access is not plentiful outside Erie, Pennsylvania… across the street from the 24 our fireworks, guns, knives and swords with a free sample of Jelly Belly jelly beans store and down the street from Splash Lagoon, the area’s finest indoor water park. I wish I was kidding. Dan and I have been

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As New Englanders would put it, what a wicked awesome weekend. Our Northampton friends - Scooter, Natalie, Evan, Erin, Mike, Francis, Gabe, Sarah, Bill, Emily, Neil, Jill - have seen us off in style.A Friday of packing, cleaning and running around was capped off with a hysterical show put on by the stylings of DON'T. Saturday was a mish mosh - held a tag sale with all the loons of Northampton

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It's a logical question. What if butterlamb melts? What if butterlamb retreats into the corn of the field of dreams? What if butterlamb hijacks a bus and heads to Akron Ohio? What will we take pictures of?We have a backup plan dear readers. Their names are Carlos and Mr. Met. As you can see, they're fired up for the trip too.But there is another logical question of course. What if Carlos, Mr.

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For those who have been eagerly awaiting the initial viewing of butterlamb, here he is...As you can see, he is sitting on a suitcase. He's fired up and ready to go!

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I'm looking for everything and anything to distract myself from packing up the freight truck that is sitting outside our apartment building right now, so I wanted to wax poetic on a book/movie and defunt TV show.First, I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE FINAL HARRY POTTER BOOK!!! (And the fifth movie!!!) I need to start plotting out which bookstore in SF will have midnight Harry Potter release parties and

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Since moving to Northampton in September, 2005, Interstate 91 has been the absolute bane of my existence. Living in Northampton and driving to work in Hartford means driving through TWO states and putting 90 miles on my car five days a week. So, as it is my final day at work, I would like to thank several groups of people and road situations that have made my drives continually FUBAR:The

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Welcome friends, family, colleagues and random visitors. This web site has been created by Jen and Dan to not only chronicle our cross-country travels as we move from Northampton, MA to San Francisco, CA (gulp) next week but to write about life on the other Left Coast.The more ridiculous element of this move - surely not the fact that our boxes of books take up more space then our furniture,

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