West Coast Road Trip- Day 1

It's official, Ted has moved! The next three posts will highlight the trip. Friday Ted picked me up at the Long Beach Airport. He was running a little late, having left his license at the UHaul place the night before, and having to hastily retrieve it as well as random dry cleaning, etc. Luckily my flight was late as well. We weren't driving a UHaul as Ted had rented a Door to Door Pod that he packed up and they ship up to Seattle and store for him. It's a great service that I used when moving to Boston. But he had been at UHaul renting furniture dolly's to move the piano. So, he arrived 5 minutes after I walked off the plane. It worked out splendidly.

We headed into downtown LA to see Angela, a friend of mine from Jr. High and High School. She's been working at a law firm down there and so we were able to steal her for lunch. We headed to Wolfgang Puck's cafe for lunch and caught up. It was such fun!

Ted and I got on the road about 2pm. We decided to head up the 101 because it's a much more scenic drive, and who knows when we would be able to do that again. Traffic getting out of LA and through Santa Barbara were a PAIN, but it was worth it. Here are a few pictures:

We made it up to Redwood City where we stayed with Alexa, my old roommate from SF. She was a GREAT hostess, we headed to downtown Palo Alto where we found sushi at Miyake. It was a happening place- tons of large groups doing saki bombs standing on chairs chanting "saki bomb! saki bomb!" We didn't partake, but enjoyed observing. All in all is was a very low key night, but once again- such fun to see Alexa and a huge thanks to her for letting us crash at her cute pad with the great view!