Monday, June 19, 2006

SF, now that's cool

I love love love San Francisco. Now why can't it just be located in San Diego? This town rocks. We are here at a friend of B's and got in last night. We are getting school work and work work done so that we can head up to the mountains manana. We are going to go up the coast and then cut in on highway 36 (probably) to get to the Trinity/Shasta area... Stoked for that. I hope we'll stay for a while, not sure we're going to make it up to Oregon cause we might be back in SF on the first for a party at a friend's place, we'll see.

So this is what we've done so far (without a camera to document it, my camera isn't working f-ing hell).

We left wednesday evening after a LONG FREAKING DAY of moving crap, cleaning, taking stuff to goodwill, grocery shopping, etc, etc. Gosh I was glad that day was over. That night I pretty much crashed out and B got us all the way up to Ventura. We spent the next morning in Ventura and then we had some breaka at an old school dinner. I had old fashioned oat meal :) then we went to some wineries, Foxen and Beckman. Foxen was cool, super rustic, but a little pompous. Beckman was not pompous, but not as good (still quite good though). Then we headed up to SLO and stayed in a park. HI, how expensive should camping be? NOT 25 bucks in my opinion. I prefer sleeping on the side of the road, but most places don't allow that.

So the next day we went to a great place called Fiala in Edna, right outside of San Luis. Then we went to the winery "Baileyana" where they told us about a free concert in the park that night in town. We stayed for the concert and checked out San Luis. We both LOVE LOVE that town. Smaller, less traffic, ocean, wine, stuff to do downtown. Great place. THen we went to Morro Bay the next day, went for a walk on the beach, had some lunch and then drove to Big Sur. This was a mistake and we should have known better than going on the weekend, but we drove through a Gorgeous but windy Big Sur and couldn't find any campsites. NOT A ONE was available so we drove to Santa Cruz and stayed at my aunt's place. She wasn't there cause she is up in Idaho with my mom for a little vacation, but it was good to wash our stuff, do some shopping, shower...etc.

We came up to SF last night and met up with his friend. He took us to Absynthe, a really nice french restaurant. It was so late and I knew I wanted to go to yoga so I didn't eat (I had eaten earlier), but I did have two glasses of lovely wine.

I went to Yoga Tree this morning and practiced with Clayton. I liked the space a lot. It reminds me both of Patanjali and of the yoga shala in Seattle. Old, not pretentious, cool, good energy. The students were mostly doing first, I felt like a bit of an exhibitionist with my handstands and tic tocs, but hey, that is my practice and I'm not going to apologize! I couldn't really figure out what he wanted me to do with the backbending. I had done my typical three, then standing, then 5 drop backs, then three tic tocs, two stand ups, and then I asked him to help me with Vristikasana, and it was like he had never adjusted in that pose before, he didn't really do much for it, but oh well. He did give a great paschi adjustment that I'll have to tell Rich and Kiran about.

Well, that was long winded, but it will be a good reminder of my trip when I look back at my blog. Hope all y'all are doing well, keep in touch, I'll check in soon.

10 Comments:

Blogger Lees Lamar said...

So close yet veering way off to the right!
Only a hour from Arcata.....much closer than Oregon.

6:37 PM  
Blogger Tiff said...

Miss you!


Long term housesitting? Not sure how I would find out a job on that...

7:46 PM  
Blogger liz said...

so you live in Arcata? I heard that is a cool town, how come you're leaving?

Ya, I don't know about the house sitting but it sounds like a sweet deal, get paid sometimes too, no rent, ask Maura, worth a try at least! Miss you too!!

8:47 PM  
Blogger Lees Lamar said...

I actually live in Eureka(7 mins south of), but most people have heard of Arcata it's easier.
We need more city stuff to do. Museums, art, music, ya know that kinda stuff. Cheap direct flights places.
Stuff.

9:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can't wait till we get to Shasta, 2 months! I am road trippin with 3 kids all the way up, wish me luck.
I practiced with clayton for a week awhile back, liked the adjustments as well. There is a guy, actually, I believe he assists Clayton, down here for the TT. There are also two very young bendy girls who are lovely, hey let's try and grab our ankles ourselves today.... no problem.
Have a great trip.

Kiran

9:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My good friend artist of my tattoos, Erik, otherwise known as Neti from the practice ashtanga blog practices and assists Clayton sometimes... He's tall with blond air... say Hello, he's a very cool guy!

Foxen is good :)

7:19 AM  
Blogger liz said...

Julie- Oh, I think that must have been him yesterday that was assisting, he looked really familiar, has he been down to tims?
And so right on the Foxen, the Pinots are amazing, too bad you can't really buy them!

Kiran- you guys will have a great trip, it gets so hot inland though, if you have the time, you guys should go up the coast! So pretty :)

Susan- I totally understand, that is why I think I liked San Luis so much, nice mix, hey incase I do get up to Eureka, shoot me an email with your number and perhaps we could meet up for coffee? emleer@hotmail.com

10:39 AM  
Blogger formingnewsights said...

i was in trinidad and hung in eureka abit.. good little towns..there is an amazing organic cafe in eureka.. cant remeber what its called but its only like a year old.. so good

8:35 AM  
Blogger Lees Lamar said...

Organicly Delicious..
Yeah, they are nice little towns, just we're bored!

1:06 PM  
Blogger formingnewsights said...

mmm.. so good

4:10 PM  

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